This parabolic antenna was the first one ("Antenne 1") built for the "Erdfunkstelle Raisting", the worlds largest facility for satellite communications. Built in 1963/64, it was used to transmit coverage of the first landing on the Moon to Germany and to distribute coverage of the 1972 Olympic Games around the world.

The antenna is not in use anymore, but the entire structure is under Denkmalschutz (scheduled monument, historic landmark) and used as a technical museum named "Radom Raisting". There have been plans by students of the Technical University Munich to re-use the antenna.

Usually this antenna is hidden under an air-supported radome, unfortunately this was destroyed by a winter storm in February 2020, the rain water entering the structure also destroyed the electronics.

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Looking up in a maize field.

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Small rural road in the pasture landscape of Raisting.

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Tedder on the pasture.

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