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The Florianturm (Florian Tower, Florian for short) is a landmark of Dortmund (Germany). It is named after Florian, the patron saint of gardeners. Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ...
The Florianturm is the TV tower of Dortmund and was built in 1959 as an attraction for a federal horticultural show with a height of 219.6 metres. At the time it was briefly the highest freestanding structure in Germany. Fernsehturm (TV tower) in Berlin, Germany A television tower or TV tower is tower equipped with antennas for broadcasting FM radio and television signals. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...
The tower was constructed similiarly to a high concrete chimney. It consists of a reinforced concrete tube, which tapers off as it rises, reaching a height of 129.75 metres. At 130.6 metres there is a building part with two floors. On the lower floor there are operation rooms and on the upper floor at 137.54 metres there is a revolving restaurant. At 141.88 metres and 144.7 metres there are two observation decks. Placing a concrete floor for a commercial building Installing rebar in a floor during a concrete pour In construction, concrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and cement binder. ...
A chimney is a system for venting hot gases and smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere. ...
A revolving restaurant is a restaurant on a revolving floorplate. ...
On the upper observation deck there are installations and aerials of the Deutsche Telekom . Since 1959 it has been used for transmitting television signals. Look up Aerial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Aerial may refer to— a dance move. ...
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1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
On September 7th, 2004 the aerial was replaced by a Russian helicopter to transmit digital terrestrial television. Since then a 50-kilowatt transmitter has transmitted a digital TV program for the Dortmund area. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ...
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels (SDTV) and/or better quality of picture (EDTV, HDTV) and sound (AC3, Dolby Digital) through a conventional aerial instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ...
Since September 7th, 2004 the Florianturm has a height of 211.36 metres. making it the fourteenth highest structure in Germany.
From 1996 to 1998 the tower was renovated and safety standards were brought up to date. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
From 2000 to 2003 there was a device for bungee-jumping on the upper platform, which was closed in 2003 after a fatal accident. This article is about the year 2000. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Data
- architect: Will Schwarz, Dortmund
- construction time: May 1958 – April 1959
- depth of basement: 8.10 m, the lowest part of the substructure is 110.3 m above sea level
- diameter of basement: 25 m
- thickness of basement plate: 2.5 m
- total weight: approx. 7,700 t
- volume of cement: approx. 1,385 t
- total weight of concrete: approx. 3,400 m³
- total weight of steel: approx. 660 t
- stability ratio: 3.5x
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External links - International database and Gallery of Structures
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