The television tower is the tallest building in the Hanseatic city. He characterizes as no other building the city and is an eye-catching to think without them. As spying the Hamburg TV tower is also out of the park Planten Blomen not too difficult . He lovingly called by the hamburgers and tele Michl . However, the tower is named after Hamburg physicist Heinrich Hertz. The Colossus is made of steel and concrete. Equipped with reflection-free glass observation deck of the so-called special tower located at a height of almost 130 meters. Before its closure , four feet above the observation deck, a catering platform turned in an hour on its own axis . The tower was built from 1966 to 1968 was with a total height of 279.2 meters . The operating room is 150 meters high , this is the pulpit with the larger diameter , here are the telecommunication installations of the tower housed . At 204 meters ends of the reinforced concrete part of the tower , it is the steel lattice tower erected on which the radio and television transmitting antenna is mounted . The mast and the antenna together reach a length of 75.2 meters , the tower has a mass of 43,000 tonnes . Architects are responsible Fritz Trautwein , Fritz Leonhardt and Rafael Behn .
