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Utbremen Radio Tower

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Type
  
Lattice radio tower

Antenna spire
  
90 m (295 ft)

Demolished
  
1939

Completed
  
1933

Opened
  
1933

Construction started
  
1933

Alternative names
  
Utbremen Transmission Tower, Utbremen Broadcast Tower

Location
  
Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Utbremen Radio Tower, also known as Utbremen Transmission Tower or Utbremen Broadcast Tower, (German: Utbremen Funkturm "Utbremen Radio Tower") was a wooden German lattice radio tower that was mainly built for mediumwave broadcasting. The tower was built in 1933 but was destroyed six years later, in 1939, by lightning. It had an antenna that was 90 metres long.

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History

The Utbremen Radio Tower was built in the city of Bremen, in the year 1933. It was then destroyed, six years after the tower was built, by lightning.

Geography

The Utbremen Radio Tower was located in the Hanseatic city municipality of Bremen, which is the capital city of the free Hanseatic state of Bremen, the smallest of Germany's 16 states.

References

Utbremen Radio Tower Wikipedia