11 Sights in Bad Münstereifel, Germany (with Map and Images)

The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahr Hills in Bad Münstereifel, Germany. Inaugurated in 1972, for 29 years the Effelsberg Radio Telescope was the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth, surpassing the Lovell Telescope in the UK. In 2000, it was surpassed by the Green Bank Observatory's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, US, which has a slightly larger elliptical 100 by 110-metre aperture.

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The former collegiate church of St. Chrysanthus and Daria is the main Roman Catholic church of Bad Münstereifel. The well-preserved Romanesque basilica is an important architectural monument that deviates from the conventional scheme in a characteristic way.

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Kirspenich Castle is located in the Kirspenich district of the town of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen. The castle originated from a circular layout on an island that can still be seen today. Due to the water-walled outer bailey of this two-part castle complex, it is one of the moated castles in the district. It is part of the so-called "Wasserburgen-Route".

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The Michelsberg, at 586.1 m above sea level (NHN), is the highest point in the borough of Bad Münstereifel in the county of Euskirchen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The hill, which rises near the village of Mahlberg belongs to that part of the Eifel mountains known as the Ahr Hills (Ahreifel), and is the second highest point in the range.

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The pilgrimage chapel of St. Michael is located in the Eifel part of the Ahr Mountains on the Michelsberg near Mahlberg, a district of Bad Münstereifel in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen. The Roman Catholic church building is designated as an architectural monument and is located on the wooded basalt hilltop Michelsberg, the highest elevation in the Bad Münstereifel city area. The chapel is made of plastered quarry stone with hewn stone frames. Their roofs are covered with slate.

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Münstereifel Forest is a densely wooded region in the northern part of the Eifel mountains in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the south, it borders the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It has an area of 237 km² and an elevation between 200 and 500 m above sea level (NHN).

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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.

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The Alte Burg in Bad Münstereifel, Germany, is a circular rampart that is the remains of a fortification from the Carolingian period. The refuge castle acted as a place of retreat for the local population and as protection for the daughter monastery of Prüm Abbey. The defences dating to the 9th century have been designated as a protected monument. The castle site lies within the county of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The Hubertus Chapel in Arloff, a district of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, is a Catholic chapel built in 1466. The chapel dedicated to St. Hubertus is a protected cultural monument.

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The Astropeiler Stockert near Bad Münstereifel-Eschweiler in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen is a radio telescope with a mirror diameter of 25 m on the Stockert mountain in the Eifel region.

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The Hochthürmerberg, is a hill, 499.9 m above sea level (NHN), in the Eifel region. It is situated in the county of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia near the state border with Rhineland-Palatinate in Deutschland.

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