3D print Fernsehturm Stuttgart
A free, printable model of Fernsehturm Stuttgart, a very slender concrete tower with a round basket and a thin antenna mast, rising above green parkland, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart, also called the SWR TV Tower Stuttgart, rises 216.61 m (710.7 ft) in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the first telecommunications tower in the world to be built of reinforced concrete. It is described as the original modernist needle tower with a basket on top, a type that was built worldwide in the following years. The tower was controversial at first but soon became a well-known Stuttgart landmark and tourist attraction.
The tower stands on the hill Hoher Bopser, which has an elevation of 483 meters, in Degerloch, a borough in the south of Stuttgart. Critics objected to the new building method and the expense, while an antenna array of 200 meters, kept simple, would have cost only 200,000 DM. Construction began on January 10, 1954, and lasted 20 months. It cost 4.2 million DM, and visitor revenues reached that sum within five years. Süddeutscher Rundfunk put the tower into service on February 5, 1956.
Fritz Leonhardt was the engineer. The tower reached 216.61 m (710.7 ft) once its antenna was extended between October and December 1965. The upper observation deck is at 153.5 m (504 ft) and the lower one at 150 m (490 ft). A Panorama Café sits on a platform of the basket, which has a maximum diameter of 15 m (49 ft). The foundation measures 27 m (89 ft) across, and the whole tower weighs approximately 3,000 tons.
How it prints
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.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 58 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 72 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 93 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A needle shaft and thin mast
- The concrete shaft is very slim for its height, and a lattice antenna mast ends in a fine tip. Print friendly adapts the thinnest parts; Full detail keeps the lattice, which suits a larger print. Print slowly with good cooling.
- Patterned basket near the top
- The basket has a patterned surface. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a larger print size keep that detail crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Fernsehturm Stuttgart 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. Fernsehturm Stuttgart 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 this model
Fernsehturm Stuttgart is one of more than 2,300 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.
Common questions
Is there a Fernsehturm Stuttgart STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Fernsehturm Stuttgart grows with the print: about 58 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
