# Zimmerwald

*Observatory*

Zimmerwald Observatory, Bern

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 46.8800° N, 7.4700° E |
| State | CH |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 1 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Zimmerwald Observatory (German: Observatorium Zimmerwald) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bern. It has five telescopes of various sizes.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=46.88,7.47
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerwald_Observatory
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.