Radar and fire control center Nideggen
The Nideggen radar and fire control center was located between Nideggen and Berg on Landesstrasse 11 on the Hürth mountain.
Caesar already built a fort on the nearby Hürth mountain - 335 meters high - against the Germanic tribes, who repeatedly invaded the Rhine . In the 1960s, the Americans built a fire control station on the same site for launching Nike missiles from the Thum missile station . The facility was guarded by Belgian soldiers .
After the station was closed in the 1990s, asylum seekers from the city of Nideggen were temporarily housed there. After the property was closed in 1996, Mayor Willi Hönscheid had an earth and rubble dump set up, but this was prohibited as illegal by the Cologne district government .
Today the area is used agriculturally as a Trakehner stud.
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- http://www.heimat-geschichtsverein-nideggen.de/geheimnisse.html
- http://www.nideggen.de/zdf/ortsteile/Berg-Thuir.php
- http://www.kreuzau.de/bs/amtsblatt/downloads/02_2015.pdf
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 21.8 " N , 6 ° 30 ′ 14.1" E