Rottenbuch Radio Tower
The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company, sited between Peiting and Rottenbuch in southern Bavaria, Germany.
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 a 100m high wooden tower was erected).[4]
As of July 2020, a newspaper report said that the tower has to be demolished due to irreparable damage by ants. A replacement tower was planned then to be erected until 2022[5] In December 2020, this was decided to be a steel construction.[6] The construction of a replacement tower has begun on May 14th, 2024 and was completed in May 2025.[1]
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