Visit: march the 12th,2025

I had already been up on the top of Stuttgart's tv tower some 21-22 years ago but by pure accident I found myself again in Stuttgart where I had to kill two hours.I decided to revisit Germany's tentative whs again.

The TV tower in Stuttgart was the first of its kind in the world and triggered a kind of worldwide chain reaction in the tower construction.

Today there are countless tv towers all over our planet.The Stuttgart pioneer is considered an architectural and aesthetic masterpiece by many experts with its timeless design.It was opened in feb.1956 after 20 months of construction.The total height from the ground to the top of the antenna is 216 meters.As a groundbreaking structure, the TV tower served as a model and prototype for TV towers around the world. Even the world's tallest TV tower, the Tokyo Skytree, is considered an offshoot of the Stuttgart original, and experts consider the Stuttgart TV tower to be the most beautiful and safest in the world. Due to its innovative public use ( a cafe inside a tv tower for example) , it has been imitated architecturally and stylistically in many places around the world. A key consideration in the selection process was surely that the site could fill a thematic gap in the World Heritage List. This applies to the Stuttgart TV tower as a technical monument of the post-war period and a blueprint for its kind.

The view from the top is impressive. Unfortunately,there was a bit of fog when I was up there.

I tend to think that the tv tower in Stuttgart,Germany,has the potential to be a worthy whs candidate,but I wouldn't argue the toss with someone who has a different opinion.