Lattice tower
Tower Year Country Town Pinnacle height Date of demolition
Transmission Tower Mühlacker 1934 Germany Mühlacker 190 m April 6 , 1945
Transmitter Berlin-Tegel 1933 Germany Berlin 165 m December 16 , 1948
Sendeturm Ismaning 1932 Germany Ismaning 163 m March 16 , 1983
Sendeturm Langenberg 1934 Germany Velbert-Langenberg 160 m October 10 , 1935
Sendeturm Wiederau 1935 Germany Wiederau 150 m October 27 , 1953
Sendeturm Hamburg-Billstedt 1934 Germany Hamburg 145 m September 1949
Transmitter Żórawina 1932 Germany Żórawina , Poland 140 m Fall 1990
Transmitter Nuremberg-Kleinreuth 1935 Germany Nuremberg 124 m July 12 , 1961
Madona Radio Towers 1932 Latvia Madona 116 m 1944
Transmitter Heilsberg 1935 Germany Lidzbark Warmiński , Poland 115 m 1940
Freiburg-Lehen transmitter 1933 Germany Freiburg 107 m April 21 , 1945
Heiligenstock transmitter 1934 Germany Frankfurt/Main 107 m March 25 , 1945
Transmitter Koblenz 1934 Germany Koblenz 107 m 1965
Transmitter Trier 1935 Germany Trier 107 m 1948
Transmitter Heilsberg 1930 Germany Lidzbark Warmiński , Poland 102 m 1935
Reichenbach transmitter 1937 Germany Reichenbach/Oberlausitz 100 m May 7 , 1945
Golm transmitter 1948 Germany Golm 100 m October 25 , 1979
Stettin Radio Tower 1934 Poland Szczecin 93 m 1945
Utbremen Radio Tower 1933 Germany Bremen 90 m 1939
Flensburg Radio Tower 1928 Germany Flensburg 90 m 1957
Wooden lattice towers -- Destroyed towers
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding framework tower. They can be used as electricity transmission towers especially for voltages above 100 kilovolts, as a radio tower (a self-radiating tower or as a carrier for aerials) or as an observation tower. Before 1940, they were used as radio transmission towers especially for short and medium wave, occasionally lattice towers consisting of wood were utilized. The tallest wooden lattice tower was at Mühlacker, Germany. It had a height of 190 metres (620 ft) and was built in 1934 and demolished in 1945. Most wood lattice towers were demolished before 1960. In Germany the last big radio towers consisting of wood were the transmission towers of the Golm transmitter and the transmitter Ismaning. They were demolished in 1979 and 1983 respectively. The tallest lattice tower is the Tokyo Skytree, with a height of 634 metres (2,080 ft). Lattice towers are often designed as either a space frame or a hyperboloid structure.