Fernmeldeturm Bremen

The Bremen Telecommunications Tower, officially known as the Bremer Fernsehturm (Bremen Television Tower), is a 235.70-meter-tall (773-foot) transmission mast in the Walle district on Utbremer Straße. Built between 1982 and 1986 as a replica of the Kiel Telecommunications Tower, it replaced the earlier tower in the Faulenquartier. The architecture follows a design by architects Gerhard Kreisel and Günter H. Müller, with the 40-meter-wide (131-foot) operations cabin located at a height of 108.20 meters (355 feet). Today the tower serves as the central transmission point for all of Radio Bremen's FM radio and television programs, as well as for digital DAB+ and DVB-T2 signals. The owner and operator is Deutsche Funkturm, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Because the facility is not open to the public, you can only view the tower from the outside. One remarkable natural phenomenon is that a pair of peregrine falcons has been using the mast as a nesting site for years.