Richtfunkstation Ansfelden, Communication tower in Ansfelden, Austria.
The Richtfunkstation Ansfelden is a concrete communication tower that rises above the Upper Austrian landscape and transmits radio and television signals across the region. The structure was built using reinforced concrete and functions as part of the telecommunications network serving the area.
The tower opened on 22 September 1978, replacing the microwave antennas at the Fleckendorf transmitter, which ran until the mid-1990s. It carries the northern east-west microwave link Vienna–Salzburg–Innsbruck–Bregenz opened in 1959, with branches to the Linz telecommunications office and the Lichtenberg transmitter.
The tower is one of four Austrian structures built to the standard design of Deutsche Telekom's typentürme; the others stand on the Exelberg and the Rossbrand near Radstadt. Its 20-metre antenna platform was cast on the ground and lifted hydraulically to 50 metres, a construction step visible in the tower's proportions.
The tower stands on a 363 m high point of the eastern spur of the Ziehberg, a few kilometres south of Linz; its top reaches 456 m above sea level. It is an operating Telekom Austria facility, not a visitor site, so it is seen from outside only. The nearest relay stations of the link are Sonntagberg to the east and Sulzberg near Haag am Hausruck to the west.
The 20-metre-wide platform carrying the antenna cabin was cast on the ground and then lifted hydraulically to a height of 50 metres. The tower is one of only four of this type in Austria, alongside structures on the Exelberg and the Rossbrand near Radstadt.
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