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Cholfirst Radio Tower

Switzerland

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Cholfirst Radio Tower is a 96-metre-tall (315 ft) lattice tower on Cholfirst Mountain at Flurlingen, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The tower was built in 1973 by PTT on Cholfirst Mountain, a 570-metre (1, 870 ft) mountain near Flurlingen (47°40′51″N 8°38′48″E) after 3 years of successful operation of an experimental TV transmitter on channel 47 on a 40-metre-tall (130 ft) tower nearby. The construction of Cholfirst Radio Tower cost 7 million Swiss Francs. On request of Flurlingen community it was equipped with an observation deck, accessible for tourists by stairway (no elevator) in a height of 42 metres, of which additional costs were paid by PTT.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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