Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory.

The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte in German) has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Societät der Wissenschaften (Brandenburgische Science Society) which would later (1744) become the Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Prussian Academy of Sciences). The Society had no observatory, but nevertheless had an astronomer, Gottfried Kirch, who observed from a private observatory in Berlin. A first small observatory was furnished in 1711, financing itself through calendrical computations.

Berlin Observatory Media

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  1838 painting of the New Berlin Observatory (Linden Street), where the planet Neptune was discovered in 1846.

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  Location of the Neue Berliner Sternwarte, Berlin Observatory from 1835 to 1913

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  The royal stables and the observatory, watercolor painting by Leopold Ludwig Müller, 1824

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  Tower of the old Berlin Observatory between 1832 and 1848, with signal mast of the optical telegraph. View from the west, by F. W. Klose

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  Plan of the new Berlin Observatory of 1879

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  The North Wing with the height datum of 1879