Editing Brocken Transmitter

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[[Image:Brockenkuppe.jpg|thumb|Old (foreground) and new (background) transmission tower on the Brocken]]

The '''Brocken Transmitter''' ({{langx|de|Sender Brocken}}) is a facility for [[FM broadcasting|FM]]- and [[TV]]-transmitters on  the [[Brocken]], the highest mountain in Northern Germany.

The facility includes two transmission towers. The old tower was built between 1936 and 1937.
It is 53 metres high (including its [[antenna (radio)|antenna]] mast, which no longer exists, it had a height of 95 metres) and has an [[observation deck]], which can be reached by [[elevator]]. This tower was intended to be used after 1939 for TV transmissions to central Germany, but due to the beginning of [[World War II]], it was transformed into a radar facility.
Unlike most modern TV towers, the old tower looks like a block of flats with a square cross section. The arrangement of the windows in the observation deck is similar to those in the restaurant in the [[Radio tower Berlin]].

In 1973 a new TV tower was built on Brocken. This 123-metre, freestanding steel-tube tower stands on three legs, which hold shafts for cable and stairways for personnel access.
Above the legs are three decks for directional radio transmission aerials. The new TV tower is not accessible to the public.

While Germany was divided into [[East Germany|East]] and [[West Germany|West]], the Brocken transmitter was used for TV and FM-transmissions, even though it lay in the restricted area of the east-west frontier (on the Eastern Side). Its location so close to the border enabled it to be received in parts of the West.

In the first half of the 1990s the transmitting aerial of the old tower was removed and replaced by a [[radome]] holding [[air traffic control]] radar equipment. [[File:Neuer_Sendeturm_Brocken.jpg|thumb|New radio tower]]


The Brocken Transmitter is property of [[Deutsche Telekom]].

==Signals transmitted from Brocken==
===Digital television===
*[[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]-MDR1 HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 45 (vertical) 50&nbsp;kW
*[[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]-MDR2 HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 34 (vertical) 50&nbsp;kW
*[[ZDF]] HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 37 (vertical) 50&nbsp;kW

===Analogue television (formerly)===
*[[Das Erste]] (originally [[Deutscher Fernsehfunk|DFF1]]), VHF channel E6 (Horizontal) 100&nbsp;kW
*[[ZDF]], UHF channel 49 500&nbsp;kW
*[[MDR Fernsehen]] (originally DFF2), UHF channel 34 (Horizontal) 1000&nbsp;kW

===FM radio===
*[[MDR Sachsen-Anhalt]],  94.6&nbsp;MHz (60&nbsp;kW) 
*[[MDR Jump]],  91.5&nbsp;MHz (100&nbsp;kW)
*[[MDR Kultur]],  107.8&nbsp;MHz (10&nbsp;kW)
*[[Deutschlandfunk Kultur]], 97.4&nbsp;MHz (100&nbsp;kW)
*[[89.0 RTL]], 89.0&nbsp;MHz (60&nbsp;kW)
*[[Radio SAW]], 101.4&nbsp;MHz (100&nbsp;kW)

==See also==
* [[List of Towers]]

==External links==
{{Commons category|Brocken Transmitter}}
* {{Structurae|id=20011494|title=Fernsehturm auf dem Brocken}}
* {{Structurae|id=20011493|title=Neuer Sendeturm auf dem Brocken}}
*http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b2085
*http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b41976

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[[Category:Radio masts and towers in Germany]]
[[Category:Observation towers]]
[[Category:1937 establishments in Germany]]
[[Category:Towers completed in 1937]]