Berlin-Mueggelberge TV Tower
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The Berlin-Müggelberge TV tower is the base of a tower, currently used for radio relay link purposes, on the Müggel hills in southeast Berlin, Germany. It was originally planned as the TV tower of Berlin. When construction was started in 1954, a survey indicated that the tower would endanger aircraft on approach to the Berlin-Schoenefeld airport. For this reason, on 13 December 1955 construction was stopped. The tower base was later used by the East German Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit or Stasi) as a listening post. Today it serves the Deutsche Telekom AG as radio relay link station and has a radar dome on its top.
The Berlin-Müggelberge TV tower is not accessible to the public and is not to be confused with the Berlin-Müggelberge observation tower, known as the Müggelturm (Mueggel Tower), which is publicly accessible.
Reference
This article is largely based on the corresponding article in the German-language Wikipedia.
External link
- structurae: Fernsehturm Müggelberge (http://www.structurae.de/de/structures/data/s0011490/index.cfm) (in German)