Kootwijk

Built in the Art Deco style

Radio station build in the 1920 to have a radiowave connection between The Netherlands and what is now called Indonesia (a former dutch colonie) The start of dutch radioastronomy was here. With a Würzburg Radarstation from the 2. Worldwar a group of scientists around Oort began observing the hydrogen in our galaxy. I first heard about it when the telescopes moved to Dwingeloo in 1956.

The radar dish (diameter 7,5 m), an heritage from the 2. Wordlwar, was used in Kootwijk by dutch astronomers to map the distrubution of neutral hydrogen in the Milkyway. This famous map shows the spiral structure of the Milkyway