Utbremen Radio Tower

Utbremen Radio Tower
Utbremen Funkturm
Alternative names Utbremen Transmission Tower, Utbremen Broadcast Tower
General information
Type Lattice radio tower
Location Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Construction started 1933
Completed 1933
Demolished 1939
Height
Antenna spire 90 m (295 ft)
Not to be confused with Mediumwave transmitter Bremen.

Utbremen Radio Tower, also known as Utbremen Transmission Tower or Utbremen Broadcast Tower, (German: Utbremen Funkturm "Utbremen Radio Tower") was a wooden German lattice radio tower that was mainly built for mediumwave broadcasting. The tower was built in 1933 but was destroyed six years later, in 1939, by lightning. It had an antenna that was 90 metres long.[1]

History

The Utbremen Radio Tower was built in the city of Bremen, in the year 1933. It was then destroyed, six years after the tower was built, by lightning.[1]

Geography

The Utbremen Radio Tower was located in the Hanseatic city municipality of Bremen, which is the capital city of the free Hanseatic state of Bremen, the smallest of Germany's 16 states.[2][3]

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