Fernsehturm
Berlin from Above
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Picture 2: View form the west at Berliner Dom, Park-Inn-Hotel, St.-Marien-Kirche, Fernsehturm, Palast der Republik and St. Hedwig's Cathedral. Large picture
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Berlin's TV tower is with 368m the highest building in Germany and the second highest in Europe. Nowhere else you will get so quickly an overview of the German capital, as in the Berlin TV Tower. In just 40 seconds, the lifts take you up to 203 m height in the panoramic floor with Berlin's high bar. Enjoy the fantastic view in every direction - with good visibility up to 80 km wide. It was built according to the plans of a team of architects from 1965-69, with the assistance of a group of experts from Sweden. The Fernsehturm, member of the World Federation of Great Towers, consists of a 250m-high reinforced concrete shaft topped by a stainless steel sphere, which is divided into seven stories. One of them is home to the Telecafé, which offers a breath-taking view of the city. The café, which rotates on its own axis, takes 30 minutes to go round. The tip of the tower is formed by a 118 meter-long television antenna. A pavilion-style construction around the foot of the tower was constructed from 1969-72 according to the plans of the architects Walter Herzog and Heinz Aust; it is divided into three sections with pointed, multi-pitch roofs. The Berlin TV Tower is an outstanding symbol of the division and reunification some of the city and the whole country - so important as the Brandenburg Gate, Gendarmenmarkt and the Reichstag. |
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Panoramastraße 1a 10178 Berlin-Mitte Tel.: 24 75 75 0 Fax: 24 75 75 37 www.berlinerfernsehturm.de info@tv-turm.de |
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Alexanderplatz: S5, S7, S75, S9 U2, U5, U8 100, 200, 248
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SMS Service: Shorten waiting time: Send a short text message with the code of your ticket to the following number +49 (0) 151 15 16 39 22. You will then receive a confirmation SMS first. Approx. 30 minutes before the calculated time of admission to the Berlin TV Tower, you get a second SMS with your personal time of admission. |
