Until the electricity is disconnected, the workers are assigned and the cell is actually gone, Josef Linner expects eight to ten weeks. The telecoms workers had to reduce about 300 telephone booths in Bavaria in 2018 - on Koenigssee in the Berchtesgadener Land now the last phone box in Germany had to give way in the eye-catching yellow color.
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At peak times, remembers Günter Nerlinger, there were more than 100,000 public phones in Germany. With the triumphal procession of mobile phones they are gradually reduced, according to the project manager at Telekom - and always when the revenue per phone permanently below 50 € per month sink. The costs included repairs, cleaning - as well as electricity and telephone.
The last yellow phone booth was a plastic house, as they had been widely used from 1978 onwards. The last of its kind in the farthest corner of Bavaria had hidden itself well: it was embedded in the facade of a boathouse, so as not to disturb the ensemble at the pilgrimage town of St. Bartholomä am Königssee too much.
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Dismantling of the last yellow phone booth in Germany
According to Telekom, the first telephone box had been put into operation in 1881, and since 1899 payphones have been in circulation. From 1946 on, telephone booths required yellow as the color - until the mid-1990s. From then on gray magenta houses were installed. A phone call cost at least two groschen.