Alte Sternwarte

Alte Sternwarte is a building in , , which is located on Poppelsdorfer Allee. Alte Sternwarte is situated nearby to the observatory , as well as near the university .
Photo: Hagman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Building
  • Description: historic observatory in Bonn, Germany
  • Also known as: “Bonn Observatory”, “Old Bonn Observatory”, and “Volkssternwarte Bonn”
  • Address: Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, Bonn, 53115

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Volkssternwarte Bonn and Bonn Central Station.

Observatory
Photo: Stefan Knauf, Public domain.
is an observatory.

Railway station
Photo: ➨ Redvers, CC BY 2.0.
Bonn Hauptbahnhof is a railway station located on the left bank of the Rhine along the Cologne–Mainz line. It is the principal station serving the city of . is situated 470 metres north of Alte Sternwarte.

Work of art
Photo: Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt (aka ‘Penpen’), CC BY 4.0.
is a work of art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bonn-Zentrum and Poppelsdorf.

Quarter
Photo: Leonce49, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
is a quarter.

Quarter
Bonn, officially the Federal City of Bonn, is a federal city in the German state of , located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about 24 km south-southeast of , in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region.

Quarter
Photo: Mrhubble, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood in the western part of , Germany. Before 1904 it was an independent municipality. The village of was founded in the 8th century, and was first mentioned in 804 as Antiniche. Today, about 12,000 people live in .

Alte Sternwarte

Latitude
50.72783° or 50° 43′ 40″ north
Longitude
7.09755° or 7° 5′ 51″ east
Inception
1844
Levels
3
Open location code
9F29P3HX+42
Open­Street­Map ID
way 147858849
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­observatory
Wiki­data ID
Q436256
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In Other Languages

From German to Ukrainian—“Alte Sternwarte” goes by many names.

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