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The Sender Inselsberg (transmitter Inselsberg) is an FM and
The Sender Inselsberg (transmitter Inselsberg) is an FM and television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
-transmission facility on the Großer Inselsberg
Großer Inselsberg is a mountain in the Thuringian Forest with a height of above sea level, located on Rennsteig in the districts of Gotha and Schmalkalden-Meiningen. It is the fourth-highest distinct mountain of Thuringia, after Großer Beerbe ...
in Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and larg ...
, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It has two aerial tower
A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...
s, which were built in 1939 and 1974.
The transmission tower built in 1939 is a freestanding cylindrical tower built of steel concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wi ...
, which carried until the beginning of the 1990s similar to Gerbrandy Tower
Gerbrandy is a West Frisian patronymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (born Pieter Gerbrandij; 13 April 1885 – 7 September 1961) was a Dutch politician and jurist who se ...
a guyed steel tube mast
Mast, MAST or MASt may refer to:
Engineering
* Mast (sailing), a vertical spar on a sailing ship
* Flagmast, a pole for flying a flag
* Guyed mast, a structure supported by guy-wires
* Mooring mast, a structure for docking an airship
* Radio mast ...
on its top. This mast carried the FM- and TV-broadcasting aerials.
Nowadays this mast is demounted and there are only small aerials for mobile phone services on its top. The tower is nicknamed because of its cylindrical form "thermos flask".
The transmission tower built in 1974 is a freestanding steel tube tower on three feet. This tower which is similar to the tower of transmitter Brocken
The Brocken Transmitter (german: Sender Brocken) is a facility for FM- and TV-transmitters on the Brocken, the highest mountain in northern Germany.
The facility includes two transmission towers. The old tower was built between 1936 and 1937 ...
, which was built at the same time, carries above its legs three platforms for aerials for directional radio services and in its topmost section, protected by layers of glass-reinforced plastic
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth ...
, transmission aerials for FM broadcasting services and TV.
Signals transmitted from Inselsberg
Analogue television
* ARD (originally DFF1), VHF channel E5 (Horizontal) 100 kW * MDR 3rd Programme (originally DFF2), UHF channel 31 (Horizontal) 500 kWFM radio
* MDR 1, 92.5 MHz * MDR 2, 90.2 MHz * MDR 3, 87.9 MHzSee also
*List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
* A Tower {{short description, Type of communication tower in East Germany
An A Tower (german: A-Turm) was a standard type of communication tower that was built in all provinces (''Bezirke'') of East Germany during the 1950s. These towers were 25 metres high, ...
External links
* * * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b46970 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46971 {{coord, 50.85141, N, 10.46537, E, source:placeopedia, display=title Radio masts and towers in Germany Buildings and structures in Gotha (district) 1939 establishments in Germany Towers completed in 1939 Towers completed in 1974