About Nauen Transmitter Station
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Nauen Transmitter Station (German: Grossfunkstelle Nauen or Sender Nauen) in Nauen, Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating radio transmitting installation in the world. It was founded on 1 April 1906 by Telefunken engineer R. Hirsch on a 40-hectare property north of Nauen, leased from Fideikommissar Fritz Stotze. It operated as a longwave radiotelegraphy station through the end of World War 2, when invading Russian troops dismantled and removed the transmitting equipment. Since then it has been used as an international shortwave station. The original 1920 transmitter building remains.