Dwingeloo

Dwingeloo is a village in the Netherlands. It belongs to the municipality of Westerveld and is located in the province of Drenthe between the Highway 28 ( European Route 232) and the National Road 371, which are connected by the immediately leading past Dwingeloo National Road 855. The village had in 2007 2430 inhabitants.

Near Dwingeloo is a radio telescope went into operation in 1956, taking over 25 m in diameter, the largest in the world. In 2000 it went out of service, but was again made ​​operational and used by amateur astronomers, and also was a technical monument. A majority of the employees of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy ASTRON still working there and is there a test field of LOFAR.