Bantiger TV Tower, Television tower on Bantiger mountain, Bolligen, Switzerland.
The Bantiger TV Tower is a concrete broadcasting tower on Bantiger mountain in Bolligen that transmits television and radio signals across the region. The structure rises prominently from the mountainside with a solid concrete shaft supporting its transmission equipment.
Construction began in 1991 to replace a previous 100-meter radio tower dating from 1954, with the new tower completed and inaugurated in 1997. This replacement modernized the transmission facilities for the expanding broadcasting needs of that era.
The tower's name comes from the Bantiger mountain, and its steel lattice stair tower is a landmark for hikers on the paths from Bantigen and Ferenberg. At the summit, a 1.4-metre steel sculpture by Bern artist Carlo E. Lischetti, installed in 1995, honours the sewing needle; Lischetti died in 2005.
The public platform sits 33.7 metres up and is reached by an outdoor stairway of 154 steps in a lattice structure beside the shaft, as there is no lift. The tower can be reached on foot in about 20 minutes from the car park above Stettlen near Ferenberg, or in 30 to 40 minutes from Bantigen on a nature trail. Guided tours for up to 25 people last 60 minutes and a meeting room for 15 is available.
At the top of the tower's mast, 1.4 metres tall, stands a steel monument to the sewing needle, installed by Bern artist Carlo E. Lischetti, who died in 2005. The tower's antenna mast is more than twice as long as its concrete shaft, which gives the structure its silhouette.
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