The Round Tower in Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Baltic, EU.
The Round Tower The Kings original idea from the start was to build an observatory identically like Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg on the top of the Round Tower with the exact diameter like Stjerneborg’s 15 m. The Tower was completed as an observatory with a little planetarium in 1642 and has a height of almost 40 m including the obsavatory. The Round Tower is built with a 210 metre long spiral ramp, which leads to the top - and on the uppermost facade of the tower (Top photo) there is a gilded inscription like a rebus. The rebus can be interpreted in the following way: Lead God - the right teaching and justice into the heart of the crowned King Christian IV - 1642 - the year when the tower was completed. King Christian IV's draft of it, written with his own hand - is kept at the Danish Record Office. The Round Tower is the oldest functioning observatory in Europe. Until 1861 it was used by the University of Copenhagen - but today - anyone can observe the night sky through the fine astronomical telescope of the tower in the winter period. Legendary astronomers having used the observatory include Ole Rømer (1644-1710) and Peder Horrebow (1679-1764). As a curiosity - a little piece of Tycho Brahe’s burial cloth obtained from his final resting place in Prague is displayed in the Round Tower’s collection.
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Baltic, EU
Photo credit: © Thibaut PETIT-BARA / Alamy / Afripics
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