Ven
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Swedish island in Öresund
- Also known as: “Hveen”, “Hven”, and “Venn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uraniborg and Stjerneborg.
Uraniborg
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, 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.
Stjerneborg
Photo: Tycho Brahe, Public domain.
Stjerneborg was Tycho Brahe's underground observatory next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Ven in the Öresund between Denmark and Sweden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tuna and Kyrkbacken.
Ven
- Category: landform
- Location: Landskrona, del, Landskrona Municipality, Scania, Götaland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Ven” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ven”
- Aragonese: “Ven”
- Basque: “Ven (uhartea)”
- Basque: “Ven”
- Catalan: “Ven”
- Cebuano: “Ven”
- Chinese: “吻岛”
- Chinese: “文岛”
- Danish: “Hveen”
- Danish: “Hven”
- Danish: “Ven”
- Dutch: “Hven”
- Dutch: “Ven”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤين”
- Esperanto: “Ven”
- Estonian: “Ven”
- Finnish: “Ven”
- French: “Hveen”
- French: “Ven”
- Galician: “Ven”
- German: “Hven”
- German: “Ven”
- Greek: “Βεν”
- Hebrew: “ון (אי)”
- Hungarian: “Ven”
- Icelandic: “Hveðn”
- Interlingua: “Insula Ven”
- Interlingua: “Ven”
- Italian: “Hven”
- Italian: “Ven”
- Japanese: “ヴェン島”
- Japanese: “ベーン島”
- Korean: “벤섬”
- Latin: “Hvaena”
- Low German: “Ven”
- Macedonian: “Вен”
- Macedonian: “Хвен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hveen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ven i Sverige”
- Norwegian: “Ven”
- Persian: “جزیره ون”
- Polish: “Hven”
- Polish: “Ven”
- Portuguese: “Ven”
- Russian: “Вен”
- Russian: “Остров Вен”
- Slovenian: “Hven”
- Slovenian: “Ven”
- Spanish: “Ven”
- Swedish: “Hven”
- Swedish: “Ön Ven”
- Swedish: “Ven”
- Ukrainian: “Вен”
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