Helsingborg - Ven

Helsingborg - Ven is a station in Sankt Ibb socken, Landskrona, del, Scania. Helsingborg - Ven is situated nearby to the marina Bäckvikens Hamn, as well as near the lighthouse Haken fyr.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ven and Uraniborg.

Ven

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ven is a small Swedish island which lies in the middle of Öresund Sound, between southern Sweden and Denmark. It is best known as the site of the Renaissance-era astronomical observatory built by Tycho Brahe.

Uraniborg

Castle

Photo: Stanlekub, Public domain.

Uraniborg was an astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. It was the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe, and the last to be built without a telescope as its primary instrument.

Stjärneborg

Photo: Tycho Brahe, Public domain.

Stjärneborg was Tycho Brahe's underground observatory next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on Ven, an island in the Öresund between Zealand and Scania, Sweden, which was part of Denmark at the time. Stjärneborg is situated 1½ km west of Helsingborg - Ven.