The Berlin-Müggelberge TV tower is the 31 metre tall base of a tower, never completed, in the Müggel hills of southeast

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. The tower base is currently used as

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station. The tower was originally planned as the TV tower for Berlin. It was to have a total height of with an observation platform at . After construction was started in 1954, a survey indicated that the tower would endanger aircraft on approach to the Berlin-Schoenefeld airport. For this reason, on 13 December 1955 construction was stopped. The tower base was later used by the

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Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit'' or ''

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'') as a listening post. Today it serves the

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AG as radio relay link station and has a

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dome on its top. Close to the tower, there is a 64 metre tall lattice tower with aerials for non-public mobile radio services and directional antennas. The Berlin-Müggelberge TV tower is not accessible to the public and is not to be confused with the Berlin-Müggelberge look-out, known as the Müggelturm (Müggel tower), which is publicly accessible.

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This article is largely based on the corresponding article in the German-language Wikipedia.

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