The Königstuhl is the second highest mountain (570 m) of the Odenwald, south of the Neckar. Two famous astronomical institutes, the Landessternwarte and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, are situated near the top.
Discovered on 25-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.