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Federal Observatory

observatory in the city of Zurich, Switzerland
Organization architectural_structure Q999954

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
built structure, observatory[4]
Inception
1864[13]
Country
Switzerland[3]
Location
District 6[6]
Part of
list of cultural properties in Zürich / district 6[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.378°, 8.551°[14]
Appears in the heritage monument list
list of cultural properties in Zürich / district 6[17]
Architect
Gottfried Semper[5]
Archives at
ETH Library, ETH Zurich University Archives, ETH Zurich University Archives, ETH Zurich University Archives[9][10][11][12]
Heritage designation
class A Swiss cultural property of national significance[16]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Zurich[2]
Located on street
Schmelzbergstrasse[15]
Postal code
8006[7]
Street address
Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich
🏷️ Also known as
en Eidgenössische Sternwarte en Federal Observatory de Sternwarte der ETH Zürich ja 連邦天文台
🔖 Identifiers · 8
VIAF cluster ID
159420761
Library of Congress authority ID
n50076361
GND ID
1018164-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Eidgenössische Sternwarte (ETH Zürich) 2011-08-06 18-08-38 ShiftN.jpg ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/122h5h0p
IdRef ID
180400118
OpenStreetMap way ID
29232241
PCP reference number
7918

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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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Summary

Federal Observatory is an architectural structure[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . st.e-pics.ethz.ch. st.e-pics.ethz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Retrieved . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Retrieved . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Retrieved . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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