Molo Sartorio

Port of Trieste (1885)

The Molo Sartorio is part of the central port basin of Trieste , just southeast of the conference center. The pier got its name after the Sartorio dynasty , who have long operated a banking and trading company that is important for the northern Adriatic. The city museum Civico Museo Sartorio is also named after this dynasty.

At the Molo Sartorio in the 19th century an important gauge for Central Europe ( Mareograf ) was installed for the precise, long-term registration of the sea ​​level , which was operated by the marine observatory founded in 1841 and the Military Geographic Institute . The mean sea level observed here up to 1875 and again up to 1900 was defined by Austria-Hungary as the zero level for the altitude system “ meters above the Adriatic ”. To this day it is the most important altitude reference for Southeastern Europe (with the exception of Albania with “meters above the Adriatic” based on a gauge in Durrës ).

See also

• Height (geodesy) , height above sea level

Web links

• La stazione mareografica di Trieste. In: ISMAR Istituto di Scienze Marine. Retrieved November 3, 2013 (Italian). 
• Data and Station Information for TRIESTE. Retrieved November 3, 2013 . 

Coordinates: 45 ° 38 ′ 48.7 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 35.5"  E