Raisting Earth Station

Aerial view of the Raisting Earth Station, antenna 2 casting long shadows across agricultural fields near Raisting, Weilheim-Schongau, Upper Bavaria, taken on December 7, 2003.

A strange contrast: Colossal radio telescopes cast their long shadows over the farmland near Raisting in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau. The Earth station was commissioned by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1964 and today serves—as a protected monument—as a ground station for communication with communications satellites.

(High Above Bavaria, page 183)