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The Longwave transmitter Europe 1 is the oldest privately owned radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, situated at Felsberg-Berus, Germany. It transmits with a power of 2000 kilowatts a French speaking programme, Europe 1

Europe 1

Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio network created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radio broadcasters and heard throughout France...

toward France. It is the largest radio broadcasting transmitter in Germany.

Technical Details

The transmitter uses directional aerial

Antenna (radio)

An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver...

s of four guyed, insulated radio masts

Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. They are among the tallest man-made structures...

which are 270, 276, 280, and 282 metres high.
Furthermore there is a backup aerial, which consists of two guyed insulated radio masts with a height of 234 metres.

The building, in which the transmission devices are stored, has a length of 82 metres, a width of 43 metres, and a height of 16 metres.
Its surface area

Surface area

Surface area is the measure of how much exposed area a solid object has, expressed in square units. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of a curve. For polyhedra the surface area is the sum of the areas of its faces...

is 2700 square metres and its volume

Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some closed boundary, for example, the space that a substance or shape occupies or contains....

31000 cubic metres.
In front of this building, there is a telecommunication tower, which was used for broadcasting the programme of Telesaar

Telesaar

Telesaar is the designation of the first German private television station. It was brought in 1954 by the European Broadcast and Television AG, which also operates the transmitter of Europe 1....

History

The longwave transmitter graces its existence to the special state of the Saar

Saar (protectorate)

The Saar Protectorate was a German borderland territory twice temporarily made a protectorate state. Since rejoining Germany the second time in 1957, it is the smallest Federal German Area State , the Saarland, not counting the city-states Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen...

territory in the fifties: self-governed, but economically linked to France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It was reintegrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957 after a referendum of the Saar people. The transmitter

Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications a transmitter or radio transmitter is an electronic device which, with the aid of an antenna, produces radio waves. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the antenna. When excited by this alternating...

was built in 1954, broadcasting since January 1, 1955. That's why it is nowadays located inside German borders.
In 1959, one of its main masts has been relocated in vertical state http://www.dxradio-ffm.de/web//TafelEuropa1.jpg. This may be the tallest structure ever relocated without dismantling.

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