Brocken Transmitter

This tower was intended to be used after 1939 for TV transmissions to central Germany, but due to the beginning of World War II, it was transformed into a radar facility.

The arrangement of the windows in the observation deck is similar to those in the restaurant in the Radio tower Berlin.

This 123-metre, freestanding steel-tube tower stands on three legs, which hold shafts for cable and stairways for personnel access.

While Germany was divided into East and West, the Brocken transmitter was used for TV and FM-transmissions, even though it lay in the restricted area of the east-west frontier (on the Eastern Side).

In the first half of the 1990s the transmitting aerial of the old tower was removed and replaced by a radome holding air traffic control radar equipment.