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Opening
hours:
Daily from 09:00 a.m.
Last drive to the top: 22:30,
Observatory is opening until 23:00 p.m.
The television tower remains closed on 24.12. |
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The Stuttgart television tower offers a most beautiful
view over Stuttgart and the Swabian countryside as far
as the Alps towards the south. The tower, a concrete and
steel construction was opend on the 5th February 1956.
Since then it has become the technical prototype for nearly
all television towers throughout the whole world.
It
is worth-while at all times of the year to drive to the
look-out platforms and to the tower-restaurants in the
upper section of the television tower. There is no other
place in Stuttgart like the television tower from which
you can have such a wide look over the city, the vineyards
of the Neckar-Valley and then over the Swabian landscape
to the Alb in the South over the Black Forest in the West
and the Odenwald in the North.
Admission
(observatory):
| per
person |
5.-
EUR |
| children
0 –
2 |
free |
| children
3 –
12 |
3.-
EUR |
| groups
of 20 or more people |
3.-
EUR per person |
annual
ticket
per person
|
40.-
EUR
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guided
tours (reservation necessary)
(available for groups of
15 people maximum) |
80.-
EUR (+ 2.- EUR per person) |
|
(subject
to change)
Guided
tours are possible after reservation only. To make a reservation
or ask for more information please call 0711 / 23 25 97.
How
to find us:
by car
by public transport system
Stuttgart
Television Tower –
the
first
of its kind
It took 20 months to build Stuttgart's television tower.
On 5th February1956 it was taken into operation. At
that time, no other place in the world could offer such
a bold mixture of chimney, tower and Greek column. Ten
years later, Stuttgart's television tower already had
a considerable number of descendants. Despite its imposing
height of 217 meters, the television tower - which has
been the prototype of modern television towers all over
the world - has remained a giant "en miniature".
Real giants among its "sons" in Toronto and
in Moscow have exceeded the 500 meter benchmark.
 In
the beginning, the "Süddeutscher Rundfunk"
had the intention to install its antennas for the transmission
of television and FM-radio-broadcasts on a 200 meter-high
iron-grating pole, to be secured with wire-ropes, as
was usual at the time. A
projekt of this magnitude aroused the interest of the
Stuttgart engineer Dr. Fritz Leonhardt, who had gained
a good reputation in the field of bridge-building and
statics.
His idea to have an elegant concrete needle grow out
of the forest of Degerloch instead of an ugly iron-grating
pole and to equip it in the upper part with a basket-like
casing for touristic and gastronomical purposes in order
to make the television tower financially lucrative,
had been enthusiastically accepted by the "Süddeutscher
Rundfunk". The broadcasting company was hoping
that the buildingexpenses (about 4.1 Million German
Marks) would pay off soon. Success came within five
years: the building attracted hundreds of thousands
of visitors during that period alone.
 A
hole 30 meters wide and 8 meters deep was excavated
for the foundation of the tower. Into this "hole"
a 3.25 meter wide foundation ring with an external diameter
of 27 meters was put in, which is held together by a
slab of prestressed concrete of the same size. It is
this slab of prestressed concrete attached to the reinforced
foundation ring and the foundation slab in the middle
which form the lowest part of the tower. This is the
part that carries the whole weight of the tower and
conveys it to the ground.
Data
of the Stuttgart Television Tower:
| Erected:
1954 - 1956 |
| Designing
Architekt: Prof. Dr. Ing. Fritz Leonhardt |
| Chief
Construction Engineer: Prof. Dipl. Ing. Erwin
Heinle |
| Construction:
Steel concrete |
| Location:
Base of the tower 483 meters above sea-level |
| Purpose:
to carry the TV and VHF antennas |
| Height
of tower (including transmitting antenna): 217
m |
| Location
of the highest observatory: 152,40 m |
| Total
weight of the tower: ca. 3.000 t |
| Total
weight of tower base: ca. 1.500 t |
| Speed
of elevators: 5 m per sec. |
| Length
of ascent / descent: 36 sec. |
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