Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company, sited between Peiting and Rottenbuch in southern Bavaria, Germany.

Radio Tower Rottenbuch

The framework tower, a glued girder binder construction made from European Douglas fir timber, is 66 meters high.[1] The structure is held together by steel pegs.

On 18 March 2002 tower construction was started with the excavation of the tower foundations; on 3 June 2002 building of the tower structure began. For this the lower elements of the framework construction were pre-assembled in pairs and then put in place. The missing diagonal elements were then added afterwards. On 21 June 2002 the construction was finished.[2] At this time, the Rottenbuch Radio Tower was the highest wooden tower in Germany[3] (and continued being this until in 2012, the Windkraftanlage Hannover-Marienwerder (a wind power station in Hanover) with an 100 m high wooden tower was erected).[4]

As of July 2020, a newspaper report says that the tower has to be teared down due to irreparable damage by ants. A replacement tower is planned to be erected until 2022, but as of July 2020 it is not decided whether this will be a wooden building again.[5]

See also

• List of towers

References

1. Gröber, Peter (2008). "14. Internationales Holzbau-Forum 08 – Mobilfunkturm Peiting" (PDF) (in German). Forum Holzbau. Retrieved 2015-09-15. – Detailed paper describing the planning and construction.
2. Rottenbuch Transmission Tower at Structurae
3. "Zwischen Peiting und Rottenbuch steht Deutschlands höchster Holzturm" (in German). merkur.de (Münchner Merkur). 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
4. "Erste Multimegawatt-Anlage mit 100-m-Holzturm steht" (in German). SonneWind&Wärme. 2012. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
5. "Ameisen machen Funkturm auf dem Schnaidberg den Garaus" (in German). merkur.de (Münchner Merkur). 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2020-07-31.