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Ochsenkopf Transmitter

Germany

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Ochsenkopf Transmitter (Sender Ochsenkopf) is a 163-metre (535 ft) radio and TV tower of reinforced concrete, which was built in 1958 on the summit of the 1,024-metre (3, 360 ft) Ochsenkopf mountain, the second-highest mountain in the Fichtel Mountains in Northern Bavaria, Germany. The tower replaced a 50-metre (160 ft) guyed steel tube TV mast that collapsed in January 1958 as result of icing. The tower, which is not accessible to the public, has a hyperbolic-shaped basement with five floors for technical equipment. Above it, there are platforms for directional antennas. The antennas for FM-transmission are on the upper part of the concrete tower, those for TV transmission on a steel tube mast on the top.

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

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