Olympiaturm

Olympiaturm
General information
Location	Munich, Germany
Coordinates	48°10′28″N 11°33′13″E / 48.17444°N 11.55361°E / 48.17444; 11.55361Coordinates: 48°10′28″N 11°33′13″E / 48.17444°N 11.55361°E / 48.17444; 11.55361
Completed	1968
Height
Antenna spire	291 m (955 ft)
Top floor	182 m (597 ft)
Technical details
Elevator count	2
References
[1]

A view from the tower's observation platform to the Alps

A view from the tower's observation platform of the adjacent Olympic Village

The Olympiaturm in Olympiapark, Munich has an overall height of 291 m and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of 190 m there is an observation platform as well as a small rock and roll museum housing various memorabilia. Since its opening in 1968 the tower has registered over 35 million visitors (as of 2004). At a height of 182 m there is a revolving restaurant that seats 230 people. A full revolution takes 53 minutes. The tower has one Deutsche Telekom maintenance elevator with a speed of 4 m/s, as well as two visitor lifts with a speed of 7 m/s which have a capacity of about 30 people per car. The travel time is about 30 seconds. The tower is open daily from 09:00 to 24:00 hrs (last elevator up at 23:30).

List of channels

The following radio and television stations broadcast from the Olympiaturm.

Analogue FM radio

• 89 MHz: Radio 2Day
• 92.4 MHz: Radio Horeb/Radio Lora/Radio Feierwerk/CRM
• 93.3 MHz: Energy München
• 95.5 MHz: Charivari
• 96.3 MHz: Gong 96.3
• 101.3 MHz: Antenne Bayern (moving to 107.5 MHz)
• 107.2 MHz: Klassik Radio

Digital radio (DAB)/Digital mobile television (DMB)

• Block 11D: 222.064 MHz (DAB)
  • Deutschlandfunk
  • Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • Nova Radio
  • Digital Classix/Radio Opera
  • Fantasy Bayern
  • Gong Mobil
  • Radio DeLuxe
  • Bayern 1
  • Bayern 2 plus
  • Bayern 3
  • Das Erste (DMB)
• Block 12D: 229.072 MHz (DAB)
  • Bayern 2 plus
  • Bayern 4 Klassik
  • B5 plus
  • Bayern plus
  • On3radio
  • BR Traffic News
  • Rock Antenne
  • Radio Galaxy

Digital television (DVB-T)

• VHF 10: 212.5 MHz - ARD national programming
  • Das Erste (BR)
  • arte
  • Phoenix
  • EinsPlus
• UHF 26: 514 MHz
  • DVB-H Mobile 3.0 test
• UHF 34: 578 MHz - RTL Group
  • RTL Television
  • RTL II
  • Super RTL
  • VOX
• UHF 35: 586 MHz - ZDF
  • ZDF
  • 3sat
  • ZDFinfokanal
  • KI.KA/ZDFdokukanal
• UHF 48: 690 MHz - ProSiebenSat.1 Media
  • ProSieben
  • Sat.1
  • kabel eins
  • N24
• UHF 56: 754 MHz - ARD/BR regional programming (South Bavaria)
  • Bayerisches Fernsehen (Swabia/Old Bavaria)
  • BR-alpha
  • SWR Fernsehen (Baden-Württemberg)
  • Das Erste (BR) - DVB-H test
• UHF 66: 834 MHz: Mixed private channels
  • Tele 5
  • Eurosport
  • münchen.tv
  • HSE24

Ham radio and television

• Callsign DB0EL
  • UHF FM relay: 439.275 MHz (International Echolink Network #7385)
  • SHF FM relay: 1298.2 MHz
  • APRS digipeater: 144.8 MHz
• Callsign DB0TVM
  • D-Star relay: 439.975 MHz
  • Amateur television relay: 10194 and 24120 MHz

See also

• List of towers

References

1. ^ Olympiaturm at Emporis

External links

• tum.de: Olympiapark (a student project of the tum/dept Architecture)
• Olympia Tower at Structurae
• Interactive 360degrees view from the tower