Heidelstein (Hochrhön)

The Heidelstein transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-broadcasting on the Heidelstein mountain in the Rhön. It uses as antenna tower a 218 metre tall guyed mast of tubular steel, which weighs 245 tons and was built in 1969. The Heidelstein transmitter is property of Deutsche Telekom.

The Heidelstein, between Bischofsheim an der Rhön in the Bavarian county of Rhön-Grabfeld and Wüstensachsen in the Hessian county of Fulda, is a mountain, 925.7 m above sea level (NHN) high, on the state border in the mountains of the High Rhön, part of the German Central Upland range of Rhön. Its actual summit is in Bavaria.

The Long Rhön (German: Lange Rhön) is a ridge in the Central Rhön which forms part of the High Rhön within the Rhön Mountains. The Long Rhön is an elongated basalt plateau in the centre, roughly 800 metres above sea level, which is only occasional interrupted by mountain peaks. Its highest mountain is the Heidelstein (926 m above sea level (NHN)).