Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower

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Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower is a 164 metre tall telecommunicatio tower of Deutsche Telekom AG on Hüneburg near Bielefeld, which was built in 1972 as replacement for a smaller telecommunication tower, built in 1952, which is today used as observation tower. Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower is a concrete tower of FMT 3/72 type and not open for tourists.

Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower has 40 metres above ground an equipment room with a volume of 2500 cubic metres. On it, there is in a height of 49.6 metres a deck with directional antennas. A second smaller antenna deck is situated 55 metres above ground. Further smaller decks for antennas with directional antennas are situated 89 and 123.5 metres above ground. Between a height of 123.5 and 146.25 metres there are on the red-white painted antenna mast the FM-broadcasting antennas fixed. The pinnacle above 146.5 metres carries a glass fibre cylinder with the UHF-TV-broadcasting antennas.

[edit] Radiated TV programmes (before digital switch-over)

Programme	Frequency/Channel	ERP
ZDF	E 33	320 kW
WDR Studio Bielefeld	E 46	500 kW
WDR Studio Bielefeld	E 46	500 kW
Sat 1	E 38	0.125 kW
RTL	E 59	1 kW
Vox	E 36	0.5 kW