Triangulation pillar (Wahnsdorf)

The triangulation pillar in the district of Wahnsdorf is a listed surveying pillar within the Saxon city of Radebeul . It can be found at the address Altwahnsdorf 12, which belongs to the headquarters of the State Operating Company for Environment and Agriculture (BfUL) and the former Wahnsdorf weather station .

Triangulation pillars in Wahnsdorf

description

Tower house of the former Wahnsdorf weather station on the open day 2016. In the back left under the trees is the triangulation column.

On the Wahnsdorfer Kuppe (contemporary: "Kuppe des Stadthübels on the footpath to Boxdorf") in the area of the former weather station Wahnsdorf and near the highest point of the Lößnitz at 249.4 m above sea level. NHN is a triangulation pillar (at a height of 246 m above sea level ) made of Laußnitz granite, which defines one of the 122 trigonometric points of the Saxon land surveying in the 19th century . It is the 2nd order station with station number 64 .

The column was erected in April 1866 by Friedrich Robert Helmert on a piece of land owned by the Wahnsdorf landowner JG Fickler; the measure cost 154 marks. The column foundation, which sits on the rock, consists of two base and two upper layers; to protect the base of the column, it was surrounded by a cone of earth. The originally visible height is given as 2.2 meters. The attached cover plate serves to protect the upper measuring surface.

The inscription of the so-called Nagelschen column (after the Saxon professor for geodesy August Nagel , whose assistant Helmert was) reads: “Station WAHNSDORF der Kön. Saxon. Triangulation 1865. "

The column was restored in 2012 through the initiative of the Wahnsdorf home association.

literature

Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
Dietrich Lohse: 150 years of “Nagelsche Säulen”. Another anniversary in 2012! In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., July 2012, accessed January 18, 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Triangulation Pillar - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 4 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
^ Dietrich Lohse: 150 years of "Nagelsche Säulen". Another anniversary in 2012! In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., July 2012, accessed January 18, 2015 .
↑ Information according to the information sign next to it.

51.119294444444 13.675291666667Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 13 ° 40 ′ 31.1 ″ E

[denkmalliste-1] Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 4 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

[2] Dietrich Lohse: 150 years of "Nagelsche Säulen". Another anniversary in 2012! In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., July 2012, accessed January 18, 2015 .

[3] Information according to the information sign next to it.