LstN Grimeton (buffer)

Area to be taken into account in detailed and master plans. Area delimited by UNESCO. Radio station in Grimeton opened for telegram traffic in 1924 and is now the only one left by the worldwide network of nine stations that the company General Electric built up between 1918 and 1924. The stations were provided with the most advanced wireless long wave technology of the time, invented by Swedish-American engineer Ernst F W Alexanderson. The six 127-metre high antenna towers are widely visible in the open landscape. The radio station was protected as a monumental monument in 1996 and was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2004, on the grounds that “Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg, is a unique and outstanding monument representing the development process of communications technology in the period after World War I”.