Berlin TV Tower
Kattints a TV-torony képére.
The Fernsehturm (German for "television tower") is a television tower in the city centre of Berlin, Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz and part of the World Federation of Great Towers, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) administration who intended it as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today, as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin.
TV tower
The original total height of the tower was 365 metres (1198
feet), but it rose to 368 m (1207 ft) after the installation of a new antenna in
the 1990s. The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in
Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower, the Kiev TV Tower and the Riga Radio and
TV Tower. There is a visitor platform and a rotating restaurant in the middle of
the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 m (669 ft) above
the ground and visibility can reach 42 km (26 miles) on a clear day. The
restaurant, which rotates once every 30 minutes[2], is a few metres above the
visitors platform (originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later
doubled following the tower's late 1990s renovation).
Inside the shaft
are two lifts that shuttle visitors up to the sphere of the tower within 40
seconds. It is not accessible by wheelchair.
To mark the 2006 FIFA World
Cup in Germany, for which the final match was played in the Berlin Olympic
Stadium, the sphere was decorated as a football with magenta-coloured pentagons,
reflecting the corporate colour of World Cup sponsor and owner of the
Fernsehturm, Deutsche Telekom. Owing to its suggestive shape, the tower is
sometimes referred to as "Telespargel" (TV asparagus), although this nickname is
virtually never used by Berliners themselves.
TV tower technical details
* 1 Tuned mass damper
* Entrance of observation
deck is 6.25 metres (20.5 ft) above ground
* 2 Kone lifts for transport of
visitors
* 1 lift for transport of technical equipment
* Steel stairway
with 986 steps
* Evacuation platforms at 188 metres (594 ft) and 191 metres
(627 ft) high
* Observation deck at 203.78 metres (669 ft)
* Restaurant at
207.53 metres (681 ft)
* Height of the tower: 368.03 metres (1207 ft)
*
Weight of the shaft: 26,000 tonnes
* Weight of the sphere 4,800 tonnes
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