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The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm (named after the German physicist and Hamburg-born Heinrich Hertz ) is a Radio Telecommunication Tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg , Germany . Designed by architects Fritz Trautwein and Fritz Leonhardt, in co-operation with civil engineers Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann, it was built 1965 – 1968 for the then ''Deutsche Bundespost'' (German Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency) near ''Planten un Blomen'' (Hamburg's city park) and the ''St. Pauli'' district. With an overall height of 279 m (915 ft) it is Hamburg's tallest building; it comprises a 204 m (892 ft) steel-enforced concrete lower section, topped by a 50 m (164 ft) steel-lattice tower, which supports various antennas. There are 8 concentric platform stacked one above the other; starting at 128 m (420 ft) with the two-story observation (lower floor) and restaurant (upper floor) platform, served by two high-speed elevators. Above that at 150 m (492 ft) are the operations platform housing the workforce and equipment, and further up 6 equally spaced, smaller open platforms, populated with high-gain directional antennas ("parabolic mirrors"). After the observation platform and restaurant were closed (due to financial reasons), former stuntman Jochen Schweitzer had a bungee jumping platform installed. The restaurant will not open again due to new fire escape regulations, the bungee platform was closed after an accident on a similar platform in another German city. The tower has been home to the VFDB Hamburg section's radio amateur club station "DF0HHT". It also housed a DGPS transmitting station serving the city of Hamburg's Surveying Agency. A plaque on the tower's wall reads: "Heinrich Hertz — Dem Sohn der Stadt Hamburg" honouring the city's famous son. ''See also:'' List Of Towers EXTERNAL LINKS
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