Gerbrandy tower, IJsselstein, NL

The tower at Christmas

The Gerbrandy Tower (Dutch: Gerbrandytoren) is a tower which was built in 1961 in the Netherlands. It is situated in IJsselstein. The Gerbrandy Tower is used for directional radio services and for FM- and TV-broadcasting. The Gerbrandy Tower consists of a concrete tower with a height of 100 metres on which a guyed aerial mast is mounted. Its total height was originally 382.5 meters, but in 1987 it was reduced to 375 meters. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 752 pixel, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of the Gerbrandy tower. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 752 pixel, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of the Gerbrandy tower. ... The Gerbrandytoren at Christmas, the worlds tallest Christmas Tree. ... The Gerbrandytoren at Christmas, the worlds tallest Christmas Tree. ... IJsselstein is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands. ...

Towers of this type do not fit well in existing classification hierarchies of free standing tower antennas or guyed masts since they incorporate elements from both. If the structure is counted as a tower, it is the tallest tower in Western Europe. The Gerbrandy Tower is not the only tower which consists of a concrete tower on which a guyed mast is set. There are at least two similar but smaller towers with the same structure. One is the radio tower of Zendstation Smilde (Netherlands), which consists of an 80 meter high concrete tower, on which a 223.5 meter high guyed mast is mounted. An other example is Waldenburg TV Tower with a total height of 145 meters. KVLY-TV mast, which is guy-wire supported. ... Zendstation Smilde is a tall free-standing structure, similar as Gerbrandy Tower, built for directional radio services and TV and FM-transmissions in 1959 in the Netherlands. ...

During Christmas time lamps are put on the guys and make the tower the biggest Christmas tree in the world. There were plans to limit these decorations to once every 5 years, but sponsoring has allowed the seasonal lighting to be put up every year so far. However at Christmas 2006, there was no decoration in the mast.

The tower is named after Pieter Gerbrandy, prime minister of the Netherlands during World War Two. Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (13 April 1885 – 7 September 1961) Dutch politician, born near Sneek, in The Netherlands. ... The prime minister of the Netherlands is the head of the cabinet, and, as such, coordinates the policy of the government. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Nearby, there are two other remarkable masts, the mast of mediumwave transmitter Lopik and KNMI-mast Cabauw, a mast used for meteorological measurements. The Mediumwave transmitter Lopik is a mediumwave broadcasting facility near Lopik in the Netherlands. ... The KNMI-mast Cabauw is a 213 metre high guyed mast for meteorological measurements at Cabauw, the Netherlands. ...

See also

• List of towers
• List of masts

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. ... It has been suggested that List of tallest buildings and structures in the world#Radio masts taller than 600 metres be merged into this article or section. ...

External links

• Gerbrandy Tower in the Structurae databases of structures
• Drawings at SkyscraperPage.com
• Webcam at the top of the tower
• World's Greatest Christmas Tree Foundation

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