Facade of Building A of Radio Kootwijk, The Netherlands
Radio Kootwijk, located on De Veluwe, was a long wave transmission station, built in reinforced concrete in the 1920`s for permanent contact with the then Dutch East Indies using radio telegraphs. The architect is Julius Maria Luthmann 1890-1973. During World War II, the German occupying forces used the station for communications with the submarines of the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic. Nowadays maintained as a monument by the Dutch State Forest Commission.
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