List of Meridian Monuments

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The (old) prime meridian at Flamsteed House

A meridian monument is a monument that  marks one of the meridians - the line of equal longitude .

List of Meridian Monuments

Monumento al Meridiano Cero

At the ancient Ferro meridian (18 ° 8 ′ west) on the Canary Island El Hierro stands a stylized globe set in a concrete stele.

In the following, monuments are listed at 0–180 ° east of the prime meridian.

Prime Meridian

In Greenwich at zero longitude , the Meridian Line is marked in the form of an architectural fissure that runs right through the Flamsteed House , which formerly housed the Royal Greenwich Observatory and is now part of the National Maritime Museum . There is also an old stone tablet. Today's longitude 0 of the WGS84 (wayside cross 0 ° ) is about 100 m from the old observatory ( 51 ° 28 ′ 40.2 ″  N , 0 ° 0 ′ 5.7 ″  W ).

Meridian of Paris

The meridian of Paris at 2 ° 20 ′ 14 ″ is an old reference meridian that was replaced by the Greenwich prime meridian but was in use from 1718 to 1884 ( International Meridian Conference ). It is marked in the Salle méridienne (Salle Cassini) in the Paris observatory ( 48 ° 50 ′ 11 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 11.4 ″  E ), by some monuments ( outdoor area , Montsouris ) and the Arago medallions in Paris. The central axis of the Jardin du Luxembourg with the Palais du Luxembourg ( 48 ° 50 ′ 53.8 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 14.1 ″  E ) as well as the Louvre ( 48 ° 51 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 14 ″  O ) and several other representative buildings in Paris are aligned with the meridian.

6. Longitude

At the northern edge of the main town of Gangelt , North Rhine-Westphalia , the Mercator point was built at the intersection of the 6th degree of longitude and the 51st degree of latitude. This monument commemorates the geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), who grew up in Gangelt from 1512 to 1518.

In Kiischpelt , a municipality in the north of Luxembourg, at 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E there is the only intersection between a main latitude and a main longitude in Luxembourg. Today the Kiischpelter Sonnenkreis is located at the intersection .

7. Longitude

  • 7. Longitude on the beach promenade in Juist

  • On the North Sea island of Juist , the 7th degree of longitude is marked in several places, including on the beach promenade, the dike near the port and the pier.
  • Saarbrücken , bronze stripes on the sidewalk of Mainzer Straße and in the Nauwieser Viertel in front of the “Uff de Nauwies” pub in the St. Johann district .

8. Longitude

  • Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8 ° East

The knowledge and experience world Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8 ° Ost in the city of Bremerhaven has dedicated its main exhibition to a trip around the world along the 8th degree of longitude to illustrate the effects of climate change on different regions of the world.

9. Longitude

  • Oak stele as a memorial to the 9th degree of longitude in Schaafheim

Altona Meridian

  • Meridian marking in Altona

The Altona Meridian was the starting point for the measurement of the entire Danish state and Altona as well as for the topographical mapping of Holstein , Hamburg and Lauenburg by the astronomer and geodesist Heinrich Christian Schumacher in the 19th century. The value of 0 s (hours), 30 '(minutes) 25' '(seconds) determined by Schumacher corresponds to a degree angle of 7 ° 36' 15 '' East - these two relate to the meridian of Paris as the basis. Adding the value of Paris (2 ° 20 ′ 14 ″) gives (approximately) 9 ° 56 ′ 29 ″ in the current system.

The Altona Meridian is marked today by a bronze rail embedded in the ground at the Königstraße stop of the Hamburg S-Bahn (exit Struenseestraße ) with the inscription “Altona Meridian 0s 30 '25 ″ east of Paris”. A vertical continuation runs on the wall of the building, next to which there is also a memorial plaque for Heinrich Christian Schumacher.

10. Longitude

  • Kennedy Bridge in Hamburg

  • Käkenhof in Hamburg

  • Steele in Maasholm

  • Meridian monument 200 m south of the point 50 ° N 10 ° E near Arnstein (Lower Franconia)

  • Germany:
    • In Quarnbek near Kiel, the course of the 10th degree of longitude was marked in the pavement in 2009.
    • In Hamburg's old town there are markings embedded in the footpaths on the Kennedy Bridge and in Mönckebergstrasse , which show the course of the 10th degree of longitude through the city. In the Karstadt-Haus in Mönckebergstrasse it is marked on the ground floor of the Karstadt-Haus. Meridian Ost in Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg .
    • In Hamburg-Winterhude there is a marking in the ground at Winterhude market square.
    • In Hamburg-Langenhorn, floor marking on the Käkenhof with signage (2015).
    • At Maasholm there is a stele on the gallows hill with the inscription: “This is where the 10th meridian runs. Maasholm - Hamburg - Tunis ”.
    • In Arnstein (Lower Franconia) the 10th degree of longitude intersects the 50th degree of latitude and forms the only point of confluence between a main latitude and a main longitude in Germany. In 1990 an intersection monument was erected approx. 200 m further south, which is located directly on the B 26a , 5.6 km west of the Schweinfurt / Werneck motorway junction .
    • In Northeim , since it was rededicated as a pedestrian zone in the second half of the 1980s, the longitude in the "Breite Straße" shopping street has been marked with white paving stones.
    • On the market square (Petrusplatz) of the city of Neu-Ulm, there is a marker in the ground ( 48 ° 24 ′  N , 10 ° 0 ′  E ), which shows the course of the 10th degree of longitude through the city.
    • In Heilbad Heiligenstadt : Meridian stones in the baroque garden and on the Iberg , 1803 by Johann Georg Lingemann

11. Longitude

  • Germany:
    • In Oebisfelde (Stendaler Str. / Kantstrasse) there is an information board for the Oebisfeld Heimatverein.

12. Longitude

  • Germany:
    • There are 3 information boards near Rostock (Elmenhorst, Lichtenhagen, Diedrichshagen).
    • In the Merseburg palace garden there is a marker in the floor and a column.

13. Longitude

  • Germany:
    • In Chemnitz , the meridian is marked by an obelisk made of Saxon sandstone. This stands on a hiking trail on Schösserholz, right on the border between the districts of Adelsberg and Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain .

14. Longitude

  • Germany:
    • In Angermünde there is a metal bar on the pavement on Berliner Straße near the chapel, which shows the 14th degree of longitude. A notice board does not exist.
    • In Lohmen (Sachsen) the intersection of the 14th degree of longitude with the 51 latitude is. There is about 1 km northeast of the district Mühlsdorf on a hiking trail at the edge of the forest, the "Mühlsdorfer coordinate stone" with the coordinates.
    • In Senftenberg , at Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 49, there are metal beams on the sidewalk on both sides of the street, which indicate the 14th degree of longitude. A notice board indicates this.

15. Longitude

  • Marking stone on Bornholm, 15. Longitude east intersects 55. Latitude north

  • Meridian stone Görlitz

  • Meridian stone near Gmünd with sun stick (bent) and shadow, in the morning (2008)

For Central Europe, the 15th degree east longitude is the reference meridian at which mean local time and Central European time coincide.

The listing is sorted from north to south:

Struve bow

  • Meridian column to the Struvebogen in Hammerfest

A well-known meridian column that has become a tourist attraction is in Hammerfest . It was built according to a design by Wilhelm von Hanno (1856) and is reminiscent of the Struve arch , a meridian arch .

140th degree of longitude

A sculpture marking the intersection between 140th longitude and 40th parallel north is located in Hachimantai, Iwate, Japan.

180th degree of longitude

  • The 180th degree of longitude on Taveuni

The 180th degree of longitude only runs over land in a few very remote places. It encounters a total of four of the Fiji Islands, namely Taveuni , Aveuni , Rambi and Vanua Levu as well as Wrangel Island in the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean . In addition, the 180th longitude cuts over a length of 440 km, the Chukchi Peninsula (Chukotskiy Poluostrov) in eastern Siberia .

  • It is marked with a monument on the island of Taveuni in Fiji .

Web links

Commons : Meridian markers  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. National Maritime Museum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nmm.ac.uk
  2. ↑ The Prime Meridian . Greenwich Guide, greenwich-guide.org.uk
  3. ^ History of the Gangelt community. In: gangelt.de. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 50 ° N-6 ° E webwalking.lu
  5. ↑ Life on the 7th degree of longitude East. ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saarbrücker Zeitung, February 15, 2012, accessed on June 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de
  6. ↑ hgv-schaafheim.de: Scheffemerisches: Schaafheim on the 9th degree of longitude , October 2017, accessed on November 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ kn-online.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kn-online.de  
  8. ↑ Geodetic reference systems . ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Schleswig-Holstein; Retrieved April 14, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schleswig-holstein.de
  9. ↑ confluence.org
  10. ↑ Soviet calculations at that time have now been corrected by 135 m to the east, built in memory of the first manned space flight of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin .
  11. ↑ Gasthof zum Meridianstein , entry in the hut finder of the OeAV .
  12. ↑ Meridian Stone Gresten Land , Official Travel Portal Mostviertel.
  13. ↑ Island of Pag. In: kroatien-lexikon.de. Croatia Lexicon, July 14, 2013, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Marking of the 15th meridian on Pag (Paški Zaljev west coast - April 2015). In: carto.net. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .