Sender Kiel, Transmission facility in Kronshagen, Germany.
Sender Kiel is a broadcast transmission facility in Kronshagen, a small locality near the city of Kiel in northern Germany, made up of two tall communication towers. The taller of the two towers reaches about 191 meters and transmits FM radio signals across a wide area of northern Europe.
The facility started broadcasting in 1926 under the name Nordmarksender, using medium wave transmission. The main tower was built in Hamburg and moved to Kronshagen in 1964, where it has been operating ever since.
The station is part of a broadcast network that connects northern Germany, Denmark, and Sweden through daily radio programming. Drivers and residents across the region receive its signal without ever seeing the towers up close.
The site is an active broadcast facility and is not open to visitors, but the towers can be seen clearly from the roads and open areas nearby. The flat landscape around Kronshagen makes them visible from a good distance without needing to get close.
The main tower was not built in Kronshagen but transported there from Hamburg in 1964 and reassembled on site. Moving a structure of that size to a new location was an unusual technical operation for its time.
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