When you’re passing through the cities Espenau or Fuldatal north of Kassel, Germany you might see a strangely shaped tower on a hill – the Häuschensberg. It is the Volkssternwarte Rothwesten, an observatory above the village Rothwesten belonging to Fuldatal. It was finished in 1963 and offers the possibility to look at the stars – free of charge. At its location there was since 1912 a look-out tower that collapsed and was never repaired.
Volkssternwarte Rothwesten, Fuldatal 
Volkssternwarte Rothwesten, Fuldatal 
Volkssternwarte Rothwesten, Fuldatal
The initiator of the project, Georg Spitzer, started to plan the observatory in 1950. Nine years later a local company could build the tower while Spitzer worked on a wooden cupola. The plan was to bring the cupola up with a helicopter of the US forces in Germany – but the Cuba crisis delayed this project. Today the Volkssternwarte Rothwesten has three telescopes suitable for different tasks – and still offers education for free by a team of volunteers.
Volkssternwarte Rothwesten
Am Häuschensberg
34233 Fuldatal
Germany
http://www.volkssternwarte-rothwesten.de
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