Opening ceremony on November 28, 2015

On November 28, 2015, the rebuilt 27-foot reflecting telescope from 1793 was presented to friends and supporters. 210 invited guests gathered for the celebration at the Borgfelder Landhaus. After the welcome speech by Klaus-Dieter Uhden and greetings from State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport E. Ferlemann, A. Miesner MdL Hannover, District Administrator B. Lütjen, Mayor W. Hollatz, Dr. A. Hänel VdS Osnabrück, sponsor Th. Bürmann, G. Willems, Chairman of AVL e.V., and Johann Hieronymus Schroeter, who had hurried from his crypt on the west side of the monastery church for this occasion, astronaut and Director of the “Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations at the European Space Agency (ESA)” Dr. Thomas Reiter delivered the keynote address. The longest journey was made by Dr. J. Laidla, Head of the Old Observatory in Tartu.

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