Sonneberg Observatory
Sonneberg Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 638 m altitude on Erbisbühl in the Neufang district of Sonneberg, Germany. The observatory was founded in 1925 on the initiative of Cuno Hoffmeister by the town of Sonneberg with the support of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: observatory
- Address: Sternwartestraße 32
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum in Sonneberg and Burg Sonneberg.
Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum in Sonneberg
Museum
Photo: ErwinMeier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum in Sonneberg is situated 2 km southwest of Sonneberg Observatory.
Burg Sonneberg
Archaeological site
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Burg Sonneberg is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ km southwest of Sonneberg Observatory.
St.-Peter-Kirche (Sonneberg)
Church
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St.-Peter-Kirche (Sonneberg) is a church, which is situated 1½ km southwest of Sonneberg Observatory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neufang and Hüttengrund.
Hüttensteinach
Suburb
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Hüttensteinach is a former town in Thuringia, Germany. It has been absorbed by the larger town Sonneberg, and is now a suburb of that town.
Sonneberg Observatory
- Categories: astronomical observatory, tourism, and observatory
- Location: Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.37723° or 50° 22′ 38″ northLongitude
11.19002° or 11° 11′ 24″ eastElevation
613 metres (2,011 feet)Open location code
9F2H95GR+V2OpenStreetMap ID
way 34764136OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=observatoryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
13527366Wikidata ID
Q63520
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Sonneberg Observatory” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sonnebergeko behatokia”
- Catalan: “Observatori de Sonneberg”
- Dutch: “Sonneberg Observatorium”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد سونبيرج”
- Esperanto: “Observatorio astronomia de Sonneberg”
- Esperanto: “Observatorio Sonneberg”
- French: “observatoire de Sonneberg”
- French: “Observatoire de Sonneberg”
- German: “4pi Systeme - Gesellschaft für Astronomie und Informationstechnologie mbH”
- German: “Sternwarte Sonneberg”
- Italian: “osservatorio di Sonneberg”
- Italian: “Osservatorio Sonneberg”
- Japanese: “ゾネベルク天文台”
- Japanese: “ゾンネベルク天文台”
- Russian: “Sternwarte Sonneberg”
- Russian: “Зоннебергская обсерватория”
- Russian: “Зонненбергская обсерватория”
- Spanish: “Observatorio de Sonneberg”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Sonneberg”
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