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Your personal bike guide
The area of the Babice Radio Station hides many remains of the Transatlantic Radiotelegraphic Broadcasting Centre in Babice formally opened on the 17th of November 1923. It was then that the president of the Second Polish Republic Stanisław Wojciechowski sent a dispatch to the president of the United States of America John Calvin Coolidge. The construction of the Station was one of the largest technical undertakings of the interwar period. The entire infrastructure of the station, consisting of 10 126,5m high towers and buildings with broadcasting equipment occupied an area in the form of a lane – 4 km long and 0,5 to 1,2 km wide. A week after the invasion of German troops, on the 8th of September 1939, the broadcasts were suspended and on the 16th of September the area was manned by soldiers of the 3rd Batallion of the 26th Infantry Regiment and the 5th battery of the 54th Infantry Regiment. Polish troops defended the area until the 27th of September when the radio station was captured by the Germans. Soon after that, the occupants established a communication point with the submarines of the Kriegsmarine there. The Germans destroyed the masts with explosives on the 16th of January 1945 before they were eventually driven out of the Warsaw area. What still remains here today includes some mast foundations, guardposts with the “Be Prepared” signs and a strip of reinforced concrete anti-tank barriers (the so-called “hedgehogs”). In the nearby Grodzisko there is also a porter building. It is worth noting that a twin broadcasting station – the Varberg radio station – is located in Swedish Grimeton and in 2004 it was included in the UNESCO List of World Heritage.
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