Radio Tower Rottenbuch
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Vodafone
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company in Rottenbuch
Rottenbuch
Rottenbuch is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is the site of Rottenbuch Abbey church....
, a part of the municipality of Peiting
Peiting
Peiting is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Lech, 3 km southeast of Schongau, and 17 km west of Weilheim in Oberbayern.- References :...
near Schongau
Schongau, Bavaria
Schongau is a small town in Bavaria, near the Alps. It is located along the Lech, between Landsberg am Lech and Füssen. It has about 12,000 inhabitants...
in Germany
Germany
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The framework tower, a glued girder binder construction made from European Douglas fir timber, is 60 meters high. The overall height of the construction, including the antennae on the top, is 62.5 meters. The structure is held together by steel pegs.
On 18 March 2002 tower construction was started with the excavation of the tower foundations; on 3 June 2002 building of the tower structure began. For this the lower elements of the framework construction were pre-assembled in pairs and then put in place. The missing diagonal elements were then added afterwards. On 21 June 2002 the construction was finished.
The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is possibly the highest wooden tower in Germany and nowadays probably the second tallest existing wooden construction in the world after the Gliwice Radio Tower
Gliwice Radio Tower
The Gliwice Radio Tower is a transmission tower in the Szobiszowice district of Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland.-Structure:It is an high construction of impregnated larch wood framework and bronze connectors. The tower was nicknamed "the Silesian Eiffel Tower" by the local population, although the...
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