• World's tallest wooden truss tower, Europe's tallest wooden structure.
• Dimensions at base: 19.8 × 19.8 m
• The tower was built between August 1st, 1935 and December 22nd, 1935. It was used until 1945 by the German Reich Broadcasting Corporation for broadcasting on the frequency 1231 kHz with a power of 8 kW. The Polish Broadcasting Company used it from 1945 to 1947 for broadcasting on 873 kHz, from 1947 to 1950 for broadcasting on 1231 kHz and from 1950 to 1955 for broadcasting on 737 kHz.
• On August 31st, 1939 a small group of German SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms seized Gleiwitz radio station, which used this tower as antenna and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish. The exact words of this message and if it really was broadcast or if the staff of the station could prevent its transmission is unknown. This false flag attack delivered the reason for the German attack on Poland, which was the start of World War II, on September 1st, 1939.
• After 1955 the tower was used as jammer and for antenna measurements, for which it was very suitable by its wooden structure.
• The building of Gliwice Radio Station houses since 2005 a museum for radio history and new media art
• In 2009 in the area between the transmitter building and the tower a park with two water bassins was created and lamps for nocturnal floodlighting of the tower were installed.
• Today the tower is used by the public safety answering point of Gliwice, cell phone operators and Radio CCM on 93.4 MHz
• On the top of the tower there was in the first decade of the 21st century an antenna mast with three vertically-polarized dipoles. Including this mast, the tower had a total height of 118 metres. In 2013 this mast was removed.
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