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Carl Zeiss Factory
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Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory
Carl Zeiss Factory


Type: Provider
Opened in 1923
Closed in 1926
Address: Carl Zeiss Promenade 10 - 07745 Jena
Country: GERMANY
Email: 


Website: https://www.zeiss.com/planetariums/us/media/images/history.html
Website 2: https://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/planetariumhistory


Team
Walter Bauersfeld, Rudolf Straubel, Franz Miller, Max Pauly, Walter Villiger,







200 seats











Dome of  16.0m




Technical
Optical system ZEISS : Model-I
Dome: Geodesic
Seat: no seats

Facilities

Operation

History
- 1846: foundation Zeiss in Jena
- 1912: first contact to built a planetarium in the Deutsches Museum in Munich
- August 1923: 16m dome on the roof with the first Model I
- Oct. 1923: demonstrated under 9.8m dome at Deutsches Museum (Munich, see 3058)
- 31 July 1924: 16m on the roof
- End January 1926: closed the dome on the roof


Comments
- After WWII: Zeiss is split into 2 independent entities providing their own production:
(Jena in Est Germany, GDR) see 770
(Oberkochen in West Germany, FRG) see 3329
until the reunification of Germany in 1989-1993


Latitude: 50°55'38" N  -  Longitude: 11°34'54" E  -  Altitude: 154m
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