Excursion destinations -> Miscellaneous
Water Information Centre Eifel, Heimbach (www.wasser-info-zentrum-eifel.de):
You can discover the local water world in big aquariums and a dam model, which you can try to control. Furthermore, you can discover how to generate electricity from water at the push of a button, the use of rainwater and much more.
Radio Telescope Effelsberg (www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/radioteleskop/index.html):
The Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully steerable radio telescopes on earth and can be found near Bad Münstereifel. It is still one of the most modern telescopes worldwide.
Satzvey Castle, Mechernich-Satzvey (http://www.burgsatzvey.de/html_e/index.html):
Experience the Middle Ages with medieval jousting (knights' games), a witch market and many other attractions.
"Tiergarten-Tunnel", Blankenheim (www.tiergartentunnel.de):
The "Tiergarten- Tunnel" is a water supply system for the occupants of Blankenheim Castle. It was built in 1468 and is not only one of the oldest tunnel constructions in North Rhine- Westphalia, but one of the most well- preserved systems of the same kind throughout the whole of Germany.
"Salvatorianerkloster" Steinfeld (www.kloster-steinfeld.de):
Steinfeld Abbey towers with its three characteristic towers over a mountain range of the North Eifel. The historical origins go back to the time of Henry I. (919-936), but then they disappear into the historical darkness. Around 1070 the first monastic settlement took place. Steinfeld as a whole is one of the best-preserved monastic architectural monuments of the Rhineland. It is a place of a vivid and now thousand-year-old culture and tradition.
Mariawald Abbey (www.kloster-mariawald.de):
Mariawald Abbey is the only monastery of the Trappists in Germany. Located in the middle of the national park Eifel near the village of Heimbach, it is a "place of spirituality" for the Trappists, monkhood and Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO).