Blosenbergturm
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The Blosenbergturm is a former
The Blosenbergturm is a
There was another, 126 m (413 ft) tall, freestanding lattice tower nearby, dismantled in 2011, which, like the Blosenbergturm, was a tower radiator insulated against ground. This tower, which was built in 1931, carried – together with a second tower, which was dismantled and rebuilt at Sankt Chrischona near Basel as a television transmission tower – a T-antenna for medium wave until 1962. After this date it was transformed into a tower radiator, serving as a backup transmitter for the Blosenbergturm itself.
The
The Beromünster transmitter was shut down at midnight (CET) on 28 December 2008, despite some protests against the measure. The 1931 backup tower was dismantled in 2011; the Blosenberg tower itself was declared a heritage monument and may become part of an on-site museum.
External links
- Blosenbergturm at Structurae
- Blosenbergturm on SkyscraperPage.com.
- Beromünster Reserve Transmission Tower at Structurae
- technical data about the transmitter
See also
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- Lattice tower
- List of famous transmission sites