Former wooden cellphone tower north of Kisbér, Hungary

[Alpha]

Not only in Germany, but also in Hungary, wooden radio towers were erected. Besides the two "Ecopol" towers in Érd and Békés, which are both still standing and in use, a 40 metres tall cellphone tower was built north of the Hungarian town Kisbér at 47.516328 N 17.998730 E in 2002, which is described on https://www.fataj.hu/archiv/2010/08/251/kisber.jpg. However, this structure, which can be clearly seen in historical images from Google Street View and Google Earth, did not exist for a long time, as it was already in 2015 replaced by the actual steel lattice tower with triangular cross-section.

[Jibba]

Originally Posted by Alpha

Not only in Germany, but also in Hungary, wooden radio towers were erected. Besides the two "Ecopol" towers in Érd and Békés, which are both still standing and in use, a 40 metres tall cellphone tower was built north of the Hungarian town Kisbér at 47.516328 N 17.998730 E in 2002, which is described on https://www.fataj.hu/archiv/2010/08/251/kisber.jpg. However, this structure, which can be clearly seen in historical images from Google Street View and Google Earth, did not exist for a long time, as it was already in 2015 replaced by the actual steel lattice tower with triangular cross-section.

This is cool. I wonder if it was preserved as a archi-technological artifact.

[Alpha]

The most remarkable existing wooden radio tower is that of Gliwice ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliwice_Radio_Tower ). I hope it will soon be an UNESO World Heritage Site.

[mrnyc]

its very strange to see these made of wood.

i prefer the hungarian, but both are beautiful structures and yes of course should be preserved.

do we know why they used wood?

[Alpha]

In Germany before 1940 for mediumwave transmitters towers of wood were built, in which the antenna was hung up or which carried antenna wires along its structure. A metal tower would block the radio waves to be radiated and so the use of wood as structural element is required. As Gliwice was before 1945 a German town, the radio tower was built in this way, while in Poland already mast radiators or metal towers between which are antenna wires spun were used.
Interestingly, the tower in Gliwice is the only of the German wooden radio towers of the era before World War II, which still exist. More details can be found in the database.

There is no technical requirement to build a cellphone tower as in Kisbér as wooden structure. However it is claimed that it has a better ecological footprint. An other wooden cellphone tower in Germany described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottenbuch_Radio_Tower will be soon replaced by a lattice tower of steel.

[Alpha]

As you can read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_site#Wooden_structures there exist and existed further wooden cellphone transmission towers in Hungary.