A new beamline for radiometric applications (e.g., detector calibration and reflectometry) has been installed and characterized at the laboratory of the Physikalisch‐Technische Bundesanstalt at the electron storage ring BESSY. The beamline is equipped with a SX700 type plane grating monochromator and a toroidal mirror behind the exit slit of the monochromator for collimating the radiation to allow angle resolved reflectometry. A divergence of 0.1 mrad has been achieved. The beamline has been optimized for high spectral purity of the radiation. Within the photon energy range from 40 to about 1500 eV the total amount of stray light and higher order radiation stays below 1%. A photon flux of up to 1011s−1has been measured in the focal point of the toroidal mirror. It corresponds to a radiant power of a few &mgr;W and thus allows use of a cryogenic radiometer for detector calibration. The details of the beamline layout and the results of the performance characterization are presented.