Osterloog transmitting station
  Osterloog transmitting station (Lower Saxony) | |
| Location | Osterloog |
|---|---|
| Mast height | 150m |
| Coordinates | 53°38′06″N 7°12′11″E / 53.635°N 7.203°ECoordinates: 53°38′06″N 7°12′11″E / 53.635°N 7.203°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Built | 1939 |
| Demolished | 1964 |
| BBC region | European Service (1952-62) |
The Osterloog transmitting station was an international radio transmitter in north-west Germany; it largely broadcast all of the Nazi radio propaganda for Britain during World War II from East Frisia (Ostfriesland).
History
It started broadcasting on 28 November 1939.
Wartime broadcasting
It broadcast all of the notorious Nazi radio propaganda received in Great Britain.
Post-war
From 5 June 1945, it was a British broadcasting station.
From 15 September 1946, it was taken over by the BBC Europe (BBC World Service) service, broadcasting German-language BBC broadcasts. Broadcasts were transmitted to Osterloog via Belgium.
In 1948 it was intended to hand the broadcasting station over to a German broadcaster, this changeover did not officially occur until 15 March 1950.
In 1952, it was planned to broadcast the Voice of Britain, for Russia.[1][2]
The BBC broadcast its European Service from February 1952 to March 1962 on medium wave, with 100kW.
Broadcasts stopped on 6 March 1964.
Soon after the war, one of the 150m masts and the eight 120m masts were dismantled and moved to other parts of Germany.
In 1964 the last 150m radio mast was dismantled and moved to another part of northern Germany.
Since June 2006, the site is now an information centre for the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park.
Structure
There were ten masts. Two main masts, each 150m high, were the main broadcasting masts. Each of these had four other 120m high masts, arranged to reflect the radio broadcast in a required direction – Great Britain. The site had been picked in 1938 to allow no obstructions across the North Sea to Great Britain.[3]
The total broadcasting power was 100kW.
The site is in the German district of Aurich.
See also
- Aspidistra (transmitter), similar transmitter in Great Britain at Crowborough in Sussex, in Ashdown Forest
References
- ↑ Western Mail Thursday 24 January 1952, page 1
- ↑ Broadcasts in 1951
- ↑ History of International Broadcasting Volume 1, IET History of Technology Service Volume 19, 1992, ISBN 0863413021 Search this book on
., page 67
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- ARD (broadcaster)
- BBC World Service
- Buildings and structures in Aurich (district)
- Cultural infrastructure completed in 1939
- History of East Frisia
- Former radio masts and towers
- International broadcasting
- Nazi propaganda radio
- Radio masts and towers in Germany
