0 km stone
The 0 km stone is a sculpture designed by Miklós Borsos in 1975 in the Hungarian capital Budapest .
It is located on Clark Ádám tér at the Buda bridgehead of the Chain Bridge and is a symbol for the Hungarian distance measurement, which Budapest assumes as the starting point for all Hungarian main highways, with the exception of road 8, which begins in Székesfehérvár . Originally the symbolic zero point was in the Buda Castle . When the chain bridge was built, it was moved to its current location.
The 0 km stone has a height of 3 meters and was made of limestone . The sculpture was designed by Miklós Borsos in the form of a stylized zero , on whose square base the initials KM (for kilometers ) are worked out.
As early as 1932 there was a sculpture on this subject at this place, but it was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1953 a decision was made to erect a new sculpture depicting a worker. This was finally replaced by the current sculpture in 1975.
In other cities (e.g. in Kecskemét on Kossuth tér) own 0 km stones were set up.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Clark Ádám square . Budapest.com. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Jeles Napok (Neumann-ház): Április 4th - A 0 kilométerkő felállítása a budapesti Clark Ádám téren - 1975. Retrieved on February 3, 2017 (Hungarian, German: April 4: Setting up the 0km stone at Clark Ádám tér (1975)).
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 53 ″ N , 19 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ E