Gaussstein (Breithorn)
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The Gaußstein Breithorn is a listed Gaußstein near Unterlüß in Lower Saxony . The stone was erected in 1828 on the site that the mathematician and geodesist Carl Friedrich Gauß used to survey the Kingdom of Hanover in 1822 . It stands on the Breithorn mountain, 118 m above sea level .
The Gauss stone is a stone cuboid about 0.5 m high with an edge length of about 15 cm. It bears the inscription “Kön. Han. Land Verm 1828 ".
At the place where the stone was erected, there was a triangular point to the Falkenberg (150 m above sea level) further west near Wardböhmen and to the north located Wilseder Berg (169 m above sea level). Additional triangles were formed by the Breithorn, the Haußelberg and the Falkenberg; Breithorn, Scharnhorst and Falkenberg; as well as Breithorn, Haußelberg and Wilseder Berg.
It can be assumed that the triangulation points Breithorn, Haußelberg and Falkenberg, which are now all in the forest, were then on free, unwooded hilltops and were probably surrounded by heathland. It was not until the major systematic afforestation in the second half of the 19th century that the wooded landscape was created today.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 45.2 ″ E