Meßkirch ( German: [ˈmɛsˌkɪʁç] ; Swabian : Mässkirch ) is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .
7-469: Bodenseesender (English: Lake Constance transmitter ) was a radio transmission facility of VoA, US SWR (until 1998 SWF) near Meßkirch -Rohrdorf in Southern Germany for medium wave established in 1964. It shut down on January 8, 2012, and one month later, on February 7, 2012, the last mast was demolished. Bodenseesender had been used since July 1, 2002 for the propagation of SWR Cont.Ra on
14-683: Is composed of following villages and hamlets: ♯The Ringgenbach river flows through Dietershofen, then Ringgenbach, before its confluence into the Ablach east of Leitishofen †Heudorf is a location on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route ‡Menningen-Leitishofen was formerly a stop on the extant Radolfzell–Mengen railway Meßkirch is the birthplace of composer Conradin Kreutzer , archbishop Conrad Gröber , writer and Georg Büchner Prize winner Arnold Stadler and, most famously,
21-780: The last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich, was born in Meßkirch. The Bodenseesender radio transmitter in the nearby village of Rohrdorf was turned off in February 2012. In 1800, the city was the site of a battle of the French Revolutionary Wars . Campus Galli is a project to construct an authentic medieval town with a Carolingian monastery , that is located in woodlands near Meßkirch. This Sigmaringen district location article
28-457: The mast. However the guys of the lowest level are divided by one intermediate insulator electrically in two parts. ] In spring 2005 the two 137-metre-high (449 ft) guyed masts which were situated at 48°1′19″N, 9°7′12″E and at 48°1′24″N, 9°7′18″E were demolished. Me%C3%9Fkirch The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's Zimmern Chronicle (1559–1566). The municipality
35-405: The medium wave frequency 666 kHz, u v.a.. Until 1978 the aerial of the medium wave transmitter consisted of 4 guyed steel framework masts, which are insulated against ground. In the mid 1970s two of these masts were dismantled. One of them was rebuilt on a new site not far away from it earlier site in order to form with one of the two masts, which were not dismantled a directional aerial, while
42-546: The other was rebuilt at Nierstein in Rhineland-Palatina. On the site of the latter mast a 240-metre-high (790 ft) guyed steel framework mast was erected, which is also insulated against ground. At the construction of this mast, the length of the upper guys were chosen in such way, that there is no disturbation of its radiation pattern when grounded directly at the anchor blocks. So the upper guys do not have any intermediate insulators. They are only insulated toward
49-667: The philosopher Martin Heidegger . Also included are the well-known brewers Johann Nepomuk Schalk and his sons Herrmann and Oscar who began the Schalk Brewery in Newark, New Jersey, the first to bring lager beer to New Jersey. The town's name is also connected with a Renaissance painter whose provisional name is Master of Meßkirch . His Adoration of the Magi can be seen in the church of St. Martin. Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547),
#545454