Alte Sternwarte
Alte Sternwarte is a building in Bonn, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia which is located on Poppelsdorfer Allee. Alte Sternwarte is situated nearby to the observatory Kleiner Refraktorraum, as well as near the university Meinhard Heinze-Haus.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 Stolperstein dedicated to Maria Zuntz.
Volkssternwarte Bonn
Observatory
Photo: Stefan Knauf, Public domain.
Volkssternwarte Bonn is an observatory.
Stolperstein dedicated to Cäsar Bukofzer
Work of art
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poppelsdorf and Endenich.
Poppelsdorf
Quarter
Bonn, officially the Federal City of Bonn, is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about 24 km south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region.
Endenich
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Photo: Mrhubble, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Endenich is a neighborhood in the western part of Bonn, Germany. Before 1904 it was an independent municipality. The village of Endenich was founded in the 8th century, and was first mentioned in 804 as Antiniche. Today, about 12,000 people live in Endenich.
Kessenich
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Kessenich is a district of the former German capital city Bonn. It is best known for the German confectionery company Haribo.
Alte Sternwarte
- Category: observatory
- Location: Bonn, Cologne District, Cologne Lowland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.72783° or 50° 43′ 40″ northLongitude
7.09755° or 7° 5′ 51″ eastInception
1844Levels
3Open location code
9F29P3HX+42OpenStreetMap ID
way 147858849OpenStreetMap feature
building=observatoryWikidata ID
Q436256
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In Other Languages
From German to Ukrainian—“Alte Sternwarte” goes by many names.
- German: “Alte Sternwarte (Bonn)”
- German: “Alte Sternwarte Bonn”
- German: “Alte Sternwarte”
- German: “Königliche Sternwarte in Bonn”
- Japanese: “ボン天文台”
- Japanese: “ボン旧天文台”
- Luxembourgish: “Alen Observatoire vu Bonn”
- Ukrainian: “Стара обсерваторія (Бонн)”
- Ukrainian: “Стара обсерваторія”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kleiner Refraktorraum and Zentrale Studienberatung.
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