Stockert Radio Telescope
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The Stockert between Eschweiler and wood home in the North Rhine -Westphalian district of Euskirchen is a 433.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of Münstereifeler Forest in the Eifel. On the hill is the radio telescope Astropeiler Stockert.
Geography
Location
The Stockert is located in the west of Münstereifeler Forest. Its summit rises 1.4 km west-southwest of Eschweiler, a district of Bad Münster Eifel, 1.8 km east of the wood home and 1.8 km (each air line ) southeast of Weiler am Berge, both of which belong to the city Mechernich; the border between the two cities runs over the top. Southeast past the mountain passes a portion of the Eschweiler stream that flows to the east about 3 kilometers brook in Bad Münster Eifel in Erftstraße. The mountain is partly wooded, but on the treeless summit region on Astropeiler Stockert, and his high altitudes in the north and west are used for agriculture.
Nature Spatial allocation
The Stockert part in the geography major unit group Osteifel (No. 27) and in the main unit Münstereifeler Forest and Northeastern Eifelfuß (274 ) for subunit Münstereifeler Valley ( 274.0 ), with its landscape to the north in the main unit Mechernicher Voreifel (275 ) in the subunit Antweiler Valley ( 275.3 ) and to the southwest in the main unit Kalkeifel (276 ) in the subunit Sötenicher Kalkmulde ( 276.0 ) drops.
Reserves
On the northwestern flank of the Stockert are parts of the nature reserve ( NSG) Kalkkuppenlandschaft between guard the village and Pesch ( CDDA-Nr. 329476; 2000; 90 ha) and on its southern flank those of the NSG Esch piece valley and Kalkkuppen ( CDDA-Nr. 329470, and in 1969 reported; 6.36 km ² ) and parts of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat area Esch piece valley and Kalkkuppen ( FFH-Nr. 5406-301; 3.85 km ²). The southwest to the northeast of its summit there are over north-west parts of the Protected Landscape Area of the district of Euskirchen ( subarea 1 ) ( CDDA-Nr. 322308; 1981, 795.04 km ²).
Astropeiler Stockert
On the Stockert Germany's first radio telescope (also called a radio observatory Stockert ) from 1955 to 1956 with the Astropeiler Stockert built. It was inaugurated on 17 September 1956. The telescope mirror is 25 m in diameter and weighs 90 tons.
By 1993, took advantage of the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in the plant, from 1979 no longer for scientific purposes, but for the education of students.
1997 Astropeiler was taken over by the then digital audio company cream ware and used until 2004 as a source of inspiration and for their Woodstockert music festivals.
Since 1999, the plant stands as an industrial monument historical monument. Owner is the NRW -Stiftung since 2005. The Foundation has modernized the technology and the building opened for interested visitors.
Was on 2 May 2010 in the presence of NRW, the deputy district administrator, the mayor of the city of Münster Eifel and representatives of the local parties, reopened the radio telescope solemnly. The previously gone were four years of intensive volunteer restoration by numerous members of the association, through manual skills or aid in the field of science, hardware, software, or documentation, in addition to the contracted company, contributed significantly to the re-use of the Astro direction finder and ensure the future preservation. Either It is also done research on the radio telescope and indeed in use as a non-school learning center. This first interested teachers be trained locally in the matter and can then pass this knowledge on to their students even at Astropeiler. Members of the association, for example, recruited from the ranks of the amateur radio hobby astronomers or even some scientifically active radio astronomers, they are doing to the side.
About 110 m east-southeast from Astropeiler Stockert is a 10 - meter mirror. Another radio telescope, the Effelsberg radio telescope with a mirror diameter of 100 m, 12.4 km is located (air line ) southeast near Effelsberg.
Plaque in the building
Historical control technology
Gleitkontaktsatz. The sliding contacts allowed the continuous rotation of the mirror during the period of use as a military radar antenna
10 - meter mirror on the Stockert; in the background of Astropeiler
Transport, walking, leisure
Slightly south-west and west past the mountain will lead the national road 165 ( Nöthen wood home ) and 499 ( Wood Home Weiler am Berge ). Of the latter branches in Weiler am Berge from the county road 45 that leads ostsüdostwärts to Eschweiler. From the K 45 in turn branches off to the west of Eschweiler from a leading to the summit region infrastructure. For example, on these streets starting can be hiked mountain paths and forest trails. On the north and east flank of the Stockerts is the golf course of the Golf Club Bad Münstereifel- Stockert.