Stockert Radio Telescope

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The Stockert Radio Telescope is a historical radio telescope in the Eifel mountain range in Germany, situated 12 km from the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope. ()

Local name: Astropeiler Stockert Established: 1956 (68 years ago)Coordinates: 50°34'12"N, 6°43'24"E

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North Rhine-WestphaliaGermany

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Nearby attractions include: LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern, Schloss Eicks, Michelsberg, Eifel-Therme Zikkurat.

4.9 miNW
Amusement, Amusement park, Specialty museum
LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern, Mechernich
125 min walk • The Kommern Open Air Museum and Rhenish State Museum for Folk Art in Kommern/Eifel is one of the largest open air museums in Europe, covering an area of over 95 hectares and displaying around 67 historic buildings from the Prussian Rhine Province.
5.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Schloss Eicks
150 min walk • Schloss Eicks is a mansion of Renaissance architecture located in the village of Eicks belonging to the town of Mechernich based in the district of Euskirchen in the south of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
5.9 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Michelsberg
152 min walk • The Michelsberg, at 586.1 m above sea level, is the highest point in the borough of Bad Münstereifel in the county of Euskirchen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
4.6 miNW
50°37'53"N • 6°40'54"E
Eifel-Therme Zikkurat, Mechernich
118 min walk • Watersports, Spa, Water park
~420 ftSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Specialty museum
Stockert Hill, Bad Münstereifel
3 min walk • The Stockert is a 435-metre-high hill which rises between Eschweiler and Holzheim in the district of Euskirchen in the borough of Bad Münstereifel, in the Eifel mountains of Germany, and west of the city of Bonn.
2.6 miSE
Ruins
Felsennest, Bad Münstereifel
66 min walk • At the start of the Western European campaign of 1940, the Felsennest was the codename for one of Hitler's Führer Headquarters near Bad Münstereifel, Germany. It was much more cramped than Adolf Hitler's other field bunkers, having only four rooms.
2 miSE
50°33'21"N • 6°45'46"E
Hürten Heimatmuseum, Bad Münstereifel
51 min walk • Museum
6.3 miSW
Archaeological site
Eifel Aqueduct
162 min walk • The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres from the hilly Eifel region of what is now Germany to the ancient city of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
2.1 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum
Pharmacy Museum, Bad Münstereifel
53 min walk • The pharmacy museum in Bad Münstereifel displays materials from the 19th and 20th centuries in a functioning pharmacy, for example, an officina, laboratory, materials chamber, herb cabinet, herb garden, etc. The shelves date back to 1806.
5.8 miSE
Mountain
Kopnück, Bad Münstereifel
147 min walk • The Kopnück is a hill, 514.4 m above sea level, in the northern Ahr Hills, a region within the Eifel Mountains in Germany. It rises near the village of Kop Nück in the borough of Bad Münstereifel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
5.1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Steinbachtalsperre
131 min walk • The Steinbachtal Dam is a dam in the city of Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia south of Euskirchen-Kirchheim.