====== Glashütte Observatory ======

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**Glashütte Observatory** (Sternwarte Glashütte) is an observatory located in [[Glashütte]], Saxony, Germany.

From [[1904]] to [[1910]] the Glashütte Student Association Urania established an observatory in [[Glashütte]]. The inauguration took place [[1910]] on 26 June.

The history of the observatory Glashütte as a place of watches began in the late 1930s with [[Lange, Otto|Otto Lange]], grandson of the founder of saxonian watch industry [[Lange, Ferdinand Adolph|Ferdinand Adolph Lange]] and [[Wempe, Herbert|Herbert Wempe]], owner of the [[Chronometerwerke GmbH|Chronometerwerke]] and the watch store chain [[Wempe]]. They collectively founded the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sternwarte Glashütte" (Observatory Glashütte Working Group) with the aim of building a research and training center for young watchmakers as well as a regulator institute. The Second World War destroyed these plans. The observatory was then owned by local authorities and forgotten, until [[Wempe, Kim-Eva|Kim-Eva Wempe]] and her father [[Wempe, Hellmut|Hellmut Wempe]] in [[2001]] had the idea to operate a separate production facility for [[chronometer]]s in [[Glashütte]].

On January 24, [[2005]], the Hamburg-based family [[Wempe]] renovated the observatory in [[Glashütte]] and installed a permanent establishment for watches as well as an independent [[chronometer certification]], which is associated with the Regional Office for Measurement in Thuringia (LMET) and the Saxon State Office for Measurement and Verification Engineering (SLME) in Glashütte.

From July 4, [[2006]], watches are officially tested for their precision according to the German quality standard DIN 8319.

===== Weblinks =====
  *[[http://www.chronometerwerke-glashuette.de/bereich4.htm|Chronometerprüfstelle Sternwarte Glashütte]]


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