Bungsberg telecommunications tower


The Bungsberg telecommunications tower is a 179-metre-high telecommunications tower situated on the Bungsberg, a hill which is the highest point in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
The tower, which belongs to Deutsche Telekom, is used for directional radio links, FM radio and television transmissions and mobile telephony services. Constructed of concrete, weighing some 6000 tonnes, and having a diameter at its base of 8.4 metres, the tower is equipped with a public observation deck at a height of 40 metres, accessible by an internal staircase. Following earlier vandalism, however, this observation deck has been permanently closed to the public since October 2006.
The telecommunications tower was not the first tower incorporating a viewing platform to be erected on the Bungsberg. An 18-metre-high observation tower, the Elisabethenturm, had been built earlier, in 1861. This tower, extended to a height of 22 metres in 1864, is still standing, although closed to the public since the opening of the telecommunications tower.

Transmitted Programmes

Telecommunication Tower Bungsberg is used for transmitting the 2 and 3rd German TV-programme and the programmes of privately owned TV stations.
Name of transmitterFrequencyERP
Klassik Radio97.2 MHz0.2 kW
R.SH100.2 MHz50 kW
DLF101.9 MHz95 kW
DLR Berlin103.1 MHz0.3 kW
Delta Radio104.1 MHz50 kW
Radio Nora106.2 MHz0.2 kW
ZDF TVCh E21235 kW
3 Ch E47235 kW
SAT1 TVCh E31280 kW
RTL TVCh E44280 kW

NDR-transmitter

Close to Telecommunication Tower Bungsberg the NDR operates since 1960 a transmission site. It uses in opposite
to the site of the Deutsche Telekom a 231 metre tall guyed mast, which is the tallest structure in Schleswig Holstein. Between 1960 and 2005 a guyed steel tube mast was in use. As
this mast was not capable to carry antennas for DVB-T, it was replaced in 2004 by a guyed lattice steel mast of the same height
nearby. The old mast was dismantled in 2006.
This mast is used for transmitting the first program of NDR and the following FM-radio programmes of NDR.
Name of transmitterFrequencyERP
NDR Kultur89.9 MHz50 kW
NDR 291.9 MHz50 kW
NDR Info96.6 MHz1 kW
NDR Welle Nord97.8 MHz50 kW
N-Joy99 MHz0.5 kW
ARD TVCh E50260 kW

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