3D print the Berlin Radio Tower
A free, printable model of the tower on the Messe Berlin grounds, with the surrounding buildings of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 150 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 40 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
150 m of the Berlin Radio Tower, 40 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Tall steel lattice
Thin steel members cool quickly. Print larger than the minimum, slow the print for the tall shaft, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep thin edges sharp.
- One piece with the ground
The Berlin Radio Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Berlin Radio Tower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Berlin Radio Tower
Berlin's Radio Tower is no longer used for broadcasting. Heinrich Straumer designed it, and it went up between 1924 and 1926. Its opening on September 3, 1926 coincided with the start of the third edition of the Great German Radio Exhibition, held on the Messe Berlin fairgrounds in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Its nickname, der lange Lulatsch, means the lanky lad, and it is protected as a monument.
A single steel frame, in the manner of the Eiffel Tower, forms the structure. It rises 150 m (490 ft), weighs roughly 600 metric tons, and occupies a square footprint of just 20 m². A restaurant was added at about 52 m and an observation deck at about 125 m, both served by an elevator moving at up to 6 m per second.
The ratio between its ground area and its height is 1:6.9. Porcelain insulators support the tower, most likely a unique arrangement among the world's observation towers; they were meant to keep transmitting power from leaking into the steel, but the tower was eventually grounded through the elevator shaft. An aerial at the top broadcast the world's first regular television program on March 22, 1935. Regular transmission ended in 1973, and the last full renovation came in 1987, marking Berlin's 750th anniversary.
About this model
The Berlin Radio Tower is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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