which provides for continuous determination of the distance which can therefore also be made discrete and in addition is easy to handle and provides for a large variety of applications the distance measuring device comprises analytical electronics and a sensor facility which comprises at least one coupling probe for feeding an emitted signal into a conducting structure with reflection body moreover the conducting structure comprises a feeding block with a feeding area connecting an hf transceiver via a wave guide with dielectric support system to the coupling probe application_number US 47129706 A description fig1 shows the distance measuring device according to an embodiment of the invention with conducting structure 1 and feeding block with feeding area 2 whereby the feeding area comprises a coupling probe 3 by means over a dielectric support system 5 with the wave guide 7 also shown is the dielectric secondary ring 9 which serves on one hand as a mechanical limit stop safety device and on the other hand as secondary adjustment and emission system the individual components of the distance measuring device according to an embodiment of the invention are shown more clearly in fig2 whereby the essential components such as feeding block with a feeding area 2 are shown in an exploded view it is also clearly evident therefrom that the dielectric support system supports the coupling probe 3 which is implemented in the form of a monopole excitation system and contains a pin which can be received in a coaxial wave guide the dielectric secondary ring 9 is also shown for the purpose of clarity the function of the distance measuring device and method for measuring the distance according to the invention shall be illustrated in more detail in the following the feeding system consists of a coaxial monopole excitation system.