Goetheanum

buildings in Dornach in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland
Place administrative_building Q659654
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Summary

Goetheanum is an administrative building[1]. Goetheanum ranks in the top 7% of administrative building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,059 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Dornach[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: multi-purpose hall[5], school building[6], religious building[7]
  • Architect: Rudolf Steiner[8]
  • Named after: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[9]
  • Architectural style: organic architecture[10], brutalist architecture[11]
  • Made from material: concrete[12]
  • Postal code: 4143[13]
  • Part of: list of cultural properties in Dornach[14]
  • Commons category: Goetheanum[15]
  • Occupant: Goetheanum[16], Goetheanum archives[17], Freie Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft[18]
  • Inception: 1925[19]
  • Official website: https://www.goetheanum.org[20]
  • Commons gallery: Goetheanum[21]
  • Described at URL: https://api.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/ech/MapServer/ch.babs.kulturgueter/4527/extendedHtmlPopup[22], https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.babs.kulturgueter/PDF/kgs_04527_gsk-d.pdf[23]
  • Structure replaces: first Goetheanum[24]
  • Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance[25], Swiss townscape worthy of protection[26]
  • Commons Institution page: Goetheanum[27]
  • Date of official opening: 1928[28]
  • Different from: Goetheanum archives[29], Goetheanum[30]
  • Street address: Hügelweg 45, 4143 Dornach[31]
  • Category for the interior of the item: Category:Interior of the Goetheanum[32]

Why It Matters

Goetheanum has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Goetheanum is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . SOSBrutalism. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . SOSBrutalism. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Retrieved . gisos.bak.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Arch2bot bot · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pcp reference number → 4527
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ #sosbrutalism id: 15891017, Add archINFORM reference"
  2. 7d ago · AnBuKu · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'hu', 'i
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 47.486111, 'lon': 7.620278}
    Part of → —
    Category for the interior of the item → Category:Interior of the Goetheanum
    Inception → +1925-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 24397, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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