Menke planetarium

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Menke Planetarium (photo 2015)
The adjacent Menke observatory (photo 2015)

The Menke Planetarium is located in the Sandwig district of Glücksburg on the edge of the Quellenental at Fördestraße 37, not to be confused with the Fördestraße in neighboring Mürwik . The northernmost planetarium in Germany, which has existed since 1969, has been operated by the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences since 1995 . The research facility was registered as a cultural monument in 2017 .

background

The planetarium was opened in the mid-1960s by the physicist Dipl.-Ing. Josef Ferdinand Menke built and put into operation in 1969. At the same time, the scientist had an observatory built next to the planetarium . From the beginning, the planetarium was used for school events and public events for adults. In the 1960s the planetarium of the Naval School Mürwik already existed on the base in Flensburg-Mürwik . It was apparently set up during the Second World War . Menke also owned Elektro Optik GmbH & Co. KG , which was located in the neighboring building at Fördestrasse 35, which still exists today. The observatory behind the building primarily served the company, which tested measuring devices there and carried out astronomical observation programs. Various infrared projects were carried out in Menke's company . The infrared specialist Josef Menke is now considered the German father of infrared technology. For more than 50 years he has participated in numerous infrared projects in Germany and abroad . In his company, IR projects for other observatories were developed and processed. IR cameras were developed as prototypes and sold for series production to well-known electronics companies in Germany and abroad. Elektro Optik GmbH & Co. KG ceased business operations in 1997 because its founder died in 1995. Until then, the company was still in operation and worked on various projects. Today the company building is primarily used as a residential building.

In the 1990s, the planetarium apparently initially remained closed to the public for some time. Josef Menke turned 82 on April 21, 1995. But shortly afterwards on May 16, 1995 he died. After his death the planetarium was not taken over by the city of Glücksburg. Since November 1995 the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences has been allowed to operate the system. However, it remained in the private property of the heirs for a while. In 2000, Menkes Erben donated the university's planetarium and observatory. On October 1, 2000, the facility was released from the private property of the Menke family and officially transferred to the technical college. After Menke's death, Uwe Roose from the Institute of Physics at the FH Flensburg took over the management of the planetarium. On April 27, 2006, a few days after Menke's date of birth, the University of Applied Sciences celebrated the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the Menke planetarium. In 2008, the graduate engineer from the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Rainer Christiansen, took over the management of the planetarium. At the turn of the year 2018/19, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences returned the observatory and planetarium to the Menke / Jargstorf family. This was made possible by a corresponding clause in the donation agreement. The planetarium will continue to be used by the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences on the basis of a rental agreement.

Around the same time as the university took over the planetarium in 1996, the Friends of the Flensburg / Glücksburg eV association was founded. Since then, the association has been helping to maintain and operate the facility. The observatory is also used by astronomical friends today. You can use the telescopes and other devices there free of charge. In 2019 the association had 120 members.

Equipment and technical details

planetarium

The planetarium dome has a diameter of six meters. The planetarium hall accommodates 50 visitor places. The planetarium originally used a classic projector. In 2011 this was replaced by a full-dome video projection system from Evans & Sutherland (cf. David Evans and Ivan Sutherland ). The Digistar 5 system from Evans & Sutherland consists of three linked high-performance computers and two HD projectors that can project over four million pixels onto the planetarium dome in real time. The aforementioned conversion was carried out with the help of European funding. The original projector, a Zeiss ZKP 1, is still there, but was expanded in 2011. This projector is used e.g. Currently restored in the Netherlands, to be shown to the public on special occasions. The experts who successfully brought the Zeiss Planetarium Model I built in 1924 to 2018 back to life are involved in the restoration. The Zeiss Planetarium Model I was badly damaged by a fire in 1976 in the Museon in The Hague. The neighboring planetarium of the Mürwik Marine School continues to use a conventional, more luminous Zeiss ZKP4 projector.

Menke observatory

The observatory is located behind the planetarium on an adjacent hill. The observatory has two observation towers. In the first observation tower is the small telescope, a modern Meade LX200 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope , with a mirror diameter of about 40 cm. The telescope can be controlled via a computer. The data obtained can also be evaluated using the computer. In the second observation tower is the larger telescope of the observatory, a Schiefspiegler with a mirror diameter of 60 cm. This Tri-Schiefspiegler was designed by Anton Kutter, a German director and astronomer, and built by the Rademacher company. It is the largest Kutter-Tri-Schiefspiegler ever built. Meetings of the Kutter-Schiefspiegler community take place in Biberach, the birthplace and place of residence of Anton Kutter. The last one was in 2018. There is a coelostat next to the observatory. This system for observing the sky consists of the movable south building with the observation device, a 12 inch Coelostat type Jensch, for tracking because of the earth's rotation and the possibility to mount mirrors for measurements. Various measuring and monitoring devices can be used in the north building. Both buildings are connected by a beam path.

Some digital cameras from Meade are also available for astronomical recordings .

Panoramabild Menke Planetarium and Menke Observatory (May 3, 2015)

Events

There are regular events for children and adults on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. There are also special demonstrations for groups and schools. The planetarium is intended to arouse the curiosity of future students about astronomy and natural sciences . The topic of astronavigation is particularly suitable for the sailors of the Fördestadt .

An astronomical event that accompanied the planetarium both medially and on site was, for example, the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 .

Today the planetarium is one of the tourist attractions of Glücksburg. The planetarium has around 10,000 visitors every year.

See also

Web links

Commons : Menke-Planetarium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Zeitversteher, Tabaluga, Menke Planetarium , accessed on: March 19, 2016
  3. ↑ List of monuments Schleswig-Flensburg, Glücksburg (Baltic Sea), City, as of February 23, 2017 InternetArchiveBot ( Memento from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 17, 2017
  4. ↑ The name is now and then incorrectly spelled with “ph” in the literature. However, Josef is correctly spelled with "f". Source: Physikalische Blätter 51 No. 4 , 1995; Retrieved on: March 20, 2016
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  6. ↑ University of Applied Sciences Flensburg, Menke Planetarium has a new director , from: May 9, 2008; Retrieved on: March 20, 2016
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  9. ↑ Cf. Das Planetarium as a supplement to astronomy lessons , p. 136, accessed on: March 13, 2016; there the "Bibliography: Mallmann, H.-G .: The use of the planetarium for school lessons, publ. Planetarium Glücksburg 1974" (PDF)
  10. ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 196
  11. ↑ more precisely: Dipl.-Ing. Josef Menke (Glucksburg); Born on: April 21, 1913 (82nd birthday on April 21, 1995); Source: Physikalische Blätter 51 No. 4 , 1995; Retrieved on: March 20, 2016
  12. ↑ Commercial Register Register Court Flensburg
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  19. ↑ Quote: “Personal data. [...] Died [...] Dipl.-Ing. Josef Menke (Glucksburg) May 16, 1995, 82 years [...] “; Source: Physikalische Blätter 51 No. 10 , 1995; accessed on: March 20, 2016 (PDF)
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  25. ↑ Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Christiansen , accessed on: March 15, 2018
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  40. ↑ Under the Starry Sky , dated: February 11, 2016; Retrieved on: March 20, 2016
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Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 37.1 ″  E