Landmark
Landmark is a term that originally came from aviation and shipping . It denotes a set up coastal lake sign such as a lighthouse or another conspicuous, mostly visible topographic object . Correspondingly, for example, churches , towers , wind turbines , castles , mountains or free-standing large trees can represent landmarks. They play an important role in spatial orientation and terrestrial navigation and are therefore marked on maps by special map symbols.
Landmarks, on the other hand, characterize an area without necessarily being prominent in the topographical sense. Landmarks that rise above a city or the country, such as B. Cologne Cathedral , the Sagrada Família Basilica of Barcelona , the Eiffel Tower , the Hercules in Kassel - Wilhelmshöhe , the Hotel Burj al Arab or natural monuments such as Mount Uluṟu are often both landmarks and landmarks.
There are numerous landmarks in the Ruhr area with its debris heaps and disused headframes that can be seen from afar . These industrial monuments were partly redesigned by artists. Richard Serra , for example, installed the 14.5 meter high sculpture Bramme for the Ruhr area on the heights of Essen's Schurenbachhalde . There is an oversized miner's lamp on the Rhine Prussia dump . Lutz Fritsch's towering sculptures, Rheinorange and Mitte, are also landmarks that deliberately act as symbols to draw attention to special places and their history or to relationships between places.
In connection with image registration , landmarks denote special points within images (e.g. corners, intersection points, conspicuous structures) that can be found manually or automatically and allow multiple images to be mapped onto one another or onto a model (see also control point ).
- Examples
View over Berlin with the television tower as a landmark in the background
The Große Feldberg can be seen from many places in South Hesse.
Slab for the Ruhr area by Richard Serra on Essen's Schurenbachhalde
Rhine orange by Lutz Fritsch on the right bank of the Rhine at the mouth of the Ruhr near Duisburg
Rusty nail on the Sorno Canal , which connects Lake Sedlitz and Lake Geierswalder
Weißenstein Castle in a depiction by Johann Heinrich Müntz (1786) with Hercules visible from afar
The main tower of the Petrikirche in Freiberg, which can be seen standing on the highest point of the old town in the Eastern Ore Mountains
Tawau Old Airport, Sabah, Malaysia with Marker Hill in the background
Heilbronn power plant , which can be seen from many places in northern Baden-Württemberg .
Untersberg from Salzburg's point of view, landmark on the edge of the Alps
See also
- Landmark art on the route of industrial culture in the Ruhr area
Web links
- Landmarks Object List (PDF; 261 kB) Land Surveying Administration of the Federal Republic of Germany (AdV), page 3
- Video: Experiment of the Week: What are Landmarks? . Leibniz Universität Hannover 2011, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.5446 / 401 .