Funkturm Leipzig

The Leipzig Radio Tower is a 191-meter-tall (627-foot) transmission tower built in the city center in 2015 to broadcast digital terrestrial television and digital radio. As the tallest freestanding steel lattice tower used for radio communications in Germany, it stands near the old trade fair grounds and the Panometer. The structure is made of hot-dip galvanized steel and is topped by a fiberglass-reinforced casing with a lightning-catcher cage. It was built because no further expansion was possible at the previous site on the Stadtwerke smokestack. Since 2016, the tower has broadcast a variety of DAB+ radio programs as well as DVB-T2 television channels in HD quality. Historically, it is not the first transmission antenna in Leipzig: as early as 1926, two 105-meter lattice towers were erected on the trade fair grounds for Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG, though they became obsolete in 1932.