The geographical center of the EU, marked with a red-and-white bar is on Saturday and officially move in after the departure of the United Kingdom. In a field of grass, close to the picturesque village of Gädheim in the German state of Bavaria is now in the glory.
rod was up to the first floor, the German branch Westerngrund, which is about 56 km north west, there’s located to. Since 2004, it has been the symbol, not of Germany; and came in ten, mainly Eastern European countries joined the european union.
The mayor of Gädheim, Jürgen Götz said in a interview with the news agency AP that he was very happy and very honored, “the geographical center of the European Union”. He is also sad because it is a country for the first time, the EU is to leave.
at The bar can be identified by the adjacent disc in the flags of the EU, in Germany and in the local community. In the eighties the inhabitants of Gädheim to get in the future is likely to have to deal with tourists, that the place to look.
The geographic center is calculated by the formula of the French national cartographic institute IGN.