Haus des Rundfunks and Funkturm, birthplace of German TV

The Haus des Rundfunks ("House of Broadcasting"), located in the Westend district of Berlin, Germany, is the oldest self-contained broadcasting house in the world. It was designed by Hans Poelzig in 1929 after winning an architectural competition.

Opposite stands the Funkturm broadcasting tower, which has looked over Berlin since the mid 1920s, for a long time it was referred to as “the lanky lad” by Berliners.

The giant transmitting mast in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district took two years to build and was inaugurated during the Great German Radio Exhibition in 1926.

The tower was built for radio broadcasts, but the first regular television service in the world was broadcast from an aerial on the top of the tower in 1935.

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