Seeberg Observatory

The Seeberg Observatory was an astronomical observatory built on the Kleiner Seeberg hill near Gotha by Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and completed in 1791. Under its first director, Franz Xaver von Zach, it became a leading centre of European astronomy and hosted the first international meeting of astronomers in 1798. It declined in the nineteenth century and was later replaced by a new observatory in Gotha.