Offenbach Weather Park
The Offenbach Weather Park is a theme park and open-air museum located in the Buchhügel recreational area in the Offenbach am Main area .
description
The weather park was inaugurated on July 15, 2005 as a joint project of the city of Offenbach, the planning association for the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main conurbation and the German Weather Service . It is located on the former site of the city gardening and urban growing garden of self-operation of the city of Offenbach.
The cost was around 480,000 euros, with 200,000 euros from the EU. In 2006 around 20,000 visitors were registered, in 2007 there were around 26,000. The park is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free. The various forms of weather are presented and explained on an area of around 20,000 m². A gravel path runs through the park that connects the individual stations. Footbridges lead to the exhibits with graphic and text explanations.
The latest exhibit is an arched climbing frame with climbing nets that explains the phenomenon of jet stream . The German Weather Service installed the first fully automatic weather station with twelve sensors on the Offenbach site , the data of which is distributed worldwide under the WMO station code 10641 and also uses the weather park as an object for its international guests to see.
At the end of 2006, a 12.3 meter high steel observation tower was opened. An angled metal staircase with 47 steps leads over two platforms to the 9.4-meter-high viewing platform , which is oriented to the west-northwest and is provided with a prefabricated rectangular monitoring frame, on the inside of which the terms visibility and air cloudiness are explained. Because of its location on the Bieberer Berg , the building, which is also known as the sight tower , allows a good view of the Frankfurt skyline and , if the visibility is good, also of the Taunus with the Großer Feldberg , just 28 kilometers away. The tower is part of the Rhein-Main regional park .
Weather park stations
- Thunderstorm - lightning and thunder
- Air pressure
- Earth atmosphere
- wind
- Precipitation
- Sun
- Weather
- Phenology / climate
- haze
- Beam current
- Weather satellite
Awards
- 2007 - Bronze award The good network from the German Designer Club (DDC)
- 2008 - Communication Design Award from iF - International Forum Design
- 2008 - Proposal for the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and Regional Development
Web links
- official homepage
- Floor plan of the weather park ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( JPG file )
- Information and pictures about the weather park at gg-online.de
- Information about the weather park observation tower at the Offenbach am Main University of Design
Individual evidence
- ↑ beam current. In: offenbach.de. June 10, 2013, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
- ↑ DWD: www.dwd.de PDF 25 KB. As of August 18, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Information based on our own measurements and investigations
- ↑ "Wetterpark Offenbach" observation tower ( memento of the original from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the engineering office Lange + Ewald.
- ↑ Regional park portal : Brochures on the website of the Rhine-Main Regional Park (see: Towers and Landmarks in the RheinMain Regional Park, PDF 2.38 MB).
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '20.7 " N , 8 ° 47' 2.4" E