Gaußstein (Dörenberg)
The Gaußstein on the Dörenberg is a listed surveying pillar in the Georgsmarienhütter district of Oesede in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony . The Gauss stone was used to measure the Kingdom of Hanover and formed a corner point of the main triangulation network .
description
In the 1.2 m high sandstone pillar with an edge length of 29 cm it is written on three sides: “Hannov. Country. Survey 1830. ” carved. It is not the original stone, which, like many other Gauss stones, was probably destroyed by landowners and farmers for fear of changes in taxation . The purpose of the survey was to get a basis for the property tax. The stone that is present today could have been erected in 1860 by officers of the Hanover General Staff as a replacement for the first stone.
The 331.2 m above sea level. NHN high Dörenberg was already used as a survey point during the survey by the French Colonel Epailly in 1804/1805. In 1824 the point was renewed and in 1825 a small pyramid was built over it. In 1829 Georg Wilhelm Müller used the triangle point for the Hanover triangulation. In 1830 Joseph Gauß , the son of geodesist Carl Friedrich Gauß , carried out measurements from the site and had a Gauss stone built. From there he set his sights on other measuring points to determine angles, such as the 140 m high Queckenberg in Ankumer Höhe and the powder tower of Bentheim Castle . Even afterwards, the stone served as a triangulation point for national surveys, including for the Prussian land survey .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Danica Pieper: Lecture on Carl Friedrich Gauß: How the surveying stone came to the GMHütter Dörenberg. In: noz.de. March 9, 2015, accessed April 30, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 33 ″ N , 8 ° 3 ′ 12 ″ E