Weather station Wahnsdorf

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The former weather station Wahnsdorf , from 1928 Meteorological Observatory Wahnsdorf , is located in the district of Wahnsdorf within the Saxon city of Radebeul . It can be found at the address Altwahnsdorf 12, which is now the seat of the Saxon State Operating Company for Environment and Agriculture (BfUL). On the site stands at 246  m above sea level. NHN Height of the listed triangulation pillars 64 of the Saxon land surveying in the 19th century .

Former weather station Wahnsdorf. The feather pen as a weather vane is a modern work of art and is intended to symbolize the writing of the weather data. At the back left under the trees is the triangulation column.

Weather station Wahnsdorf

The former weather station Wahnsdorf , on whose property the triangulation pillar erected in 1866 stands, was built as a state weather station in 1915/16, i.e. 50 years later, on the Wahnsdorfer Kuppe by the head of the Royal Saxon State Weather Station , the meteorologist Paul Schreiber , and opened in 1916. The tower house with the six-story tower was built for Schreiber by the builder Alwin Höhne .

Together with Schreiber's weather station on the Fichtelberg , which was set up at the same time, the Wahnsdorf weather station was one of the first two official state weather stations in Saxony. From 1921 Eugen Alt was director of the state weather station. In 1928 it was elevated to the rank of Meteorological Observatory as the Wahnsdorf Observatory . In 1934 the Saxon weather station was incorporated into the newly created Germany-wide Reich weather service and in 1950 the Meteorological Service of the GDR . In the same year the seat of the Saxon state weather station was relocated from Dresden to Radebeul in Schuchstraße 7.

The tower house was expanded in 1951, and in 1962, two laboratory buildings were added in 1969 and 1978. Since the 1950s the measurement of pollutants and ozone was added. Not far away was the Radebeul-Wahnsdorf radiosonde ascent point on the Tautzschgenhof site , which took part in the International Geophysical Year with its radiosondes in 1957/58 , together with the other GDR ascent points in Greifswald , Wernigerode and Lindenberg ( Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory ).

From 1960 there was also the Dresden- Klotzsche weather station at 227  m above sea level. NN near Dresden-Klotzsche airport , which today functions as the station of the German Weather Service (DWD) for the Dresden area and replaced the higher station in 1990 as a weather data supplier. In 1990, the DWD took over the state weather station at Schuchstrasse 7 and turned it into the Dresden Climate and Environmental Advice Department , which was dissolved in 2005.

At the beginning of 1991, ownership of the Wahnsdorf weather station passed back to the Free State of Saxony, and from July 1991 the location became a state measuring point for air pollutants and environmental radioactivity .

State operating company for the environment and agriculture

The buildings of the former weather station were renovated from 2008 to 2012, u. a. the tower, which can be seen from afar and which can be walked on, was secured, and in 2012 it received a new weather vane. The property has been used since 2012 by the State Operating Company for Environment and Agriculture (BfUL) of the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture , which has its headquarters and management there.

On the occasion of the centenary in 2016, an open day took place on September 3, 2016, during which the various activities were presented in the buildings of the operating company, but the tower, which is otherwise not open to the public, was also open for inspection. On that weekend, the 666-year anniversary of the first mention of Wahnsdorf was also celebrated with a village festival.

  • Art in construction: measurement curve

  • Construction art: weather vane

  • Historical art in the property

  • Entrance to the stairwell, dated 1915

  • Staircase to the office floors, the beginning of the tower stairs in red

  • Iron spiral staircase to the tower with oncoming traffic

  • Iron stairs to the skylight of the viewing platform

  • In the roof framework of the platform attachment: Rotary fastening of the weather vane

literature

  • Weather station Wahnsdorf. In: Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 221 .
  • Johannes Franke: Climate - history of measurements. The weather station in Wahnsdorf is celebrating its 100th birthday. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., August 2016, accessed August 1, 2016 .
  • The Wahnsdorf site. 100 years in the service of nature and the environment. State operating company for the environment and agriculture, 2016, accessed on October 31, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Wetterwarte Wahnsdorf  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the work of the Radebeul-Wahnsdorf radiosonde ascent center. Retrieved on January 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ New rooms for the operating company for environment and agriculture (BfUL) in Radebeul-Wahnsdorf. Retrieved January 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 31.1 ″  E