Brorfelde Observatorium

#62 among destinations in Denmark

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Brorfelde Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Brorfelde near Holbæk, Denmark. It is home to the Brorfelde Schmidt Telescope and was run as a branch of the Copenhagen University Observatory until 1996. It still has telescopes that are used by University of Copenhagen students, but the operating staff moved to the Rockefeller Complex in Copenhagen. ()

Local name: Brorfelde-observatoriet Coordinates: 55°37'29"N, 11°39'53"E

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Observator Gyldenkernes Vej 13Tølløse 4340 SjællandDenmark

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+45 59 43 57 09

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Brorfelde Observatorium – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Løvenborg, Undløse Church, Eriksholm Castle, Ugerløse Church.

5 miNW
Bridge
Løvenborg, Holbæk
128 min walk • Løvenborg is a manor house and estate at Holbæk, Denmark.
3.5 miW
Church, Romanesque architecture
Undløse Church
89 min walk • Undløse Church is located in the village of Undløse some 17 km southwest of Holbæk in northern Zealand, Denmark. The original part of the Romanesque church derives from the late 12th century. The church is noted for its early 15th-century frescoes and for its elaborate Baroque altarpiece and pulpit, both woodcuts by Abel Schrøder.
6.4 miNE
Manor house
Eriksholm Castle
164 min walk • Eriksholm Castle is a manor house located at the foot of the Isefjord inlet, 6 km south-east of Holbæk, in east Denmark. The history of the estate dates back to 1400 but today's house was built in 1788 to a Neoclassical design by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, the leading Danish architect of the time.
2.7 miS
Church
Ugerløse Church, Holbæk
70 min walk • Ugerløse Kirke is a church in Ugerløse about 15 km. south of Holbæk in Ugerløse Sogn, Roskilde...
5.9 miSW
Park
Naturpark Åmosen
150 min walk • Naturpark Åmosen is a nature park on west Zealand in Denmark. The nature park comprise c. 8,000 ha of connected wetlands emerging from the lowlying bog of Store Åmose in the east near the town of Hvalsø, through the lakes of Skarresø and Tissø and ending at the sea in the west, at the Great Belt.
4.9 miN
55°41'34"N • 11°41'55"E
Tveje Merløse Kirke, Holbæk
125 min walk • Church
4 miS
Manor house
Bonderup
103 min walk • Bonderup, also known as Bonderupgård, is a manor house located 16 kilometres south of Holbæk, Denmark. It was purchased by the merchant Johannes Theodorus Suhr in 1852 and is now owned by the Suhr Family Trust.
4.4 miW
Manor house
Kongsdal
114 min walk • Kongsdal, previously, Tygestrup, is a manor house and estate located approximately 14 kilometres southwest of Holbaek, between Undløse and Mørkøv, Holbæk Municipality, some 60 km west of Copenhagen, Denmark.
5.8 miNE
55°41'45"N • 11°44'37"E
KTASspolehus
148 min walk • Museum

Brorfelde Observatorium

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Brorfelde Observatorium – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)