Weather pillar (Esslingen)
The weather column in Esslingen am Neckar is a weather station from 1895.
history
On the occasion of the completion of the neighboring St. Agnes Bridge and the redesign of the area in which the Ross and Wehrneckar canals flow together, the Esslingen Beautification Association donated a weather station in 1895. The approximately 4 meter high structure was designed by the architect Hermann Falch.
There had initially been disputes about the location. The local council had proposed the Inner Bridge or the Ritterstrasse to the Beautification Association because it feared problems with the niche in the seminar garden. However, these sites were rejected by the Beautification Association, which preferred the place in the immediate vicinity of Bahnhofstrasse and the Schelztorturm, where the weather pillar could be set up easily accessible from all four sides. The local council finally bowed to the arguments of the beautification association and on December 23, 1895 the inauguration of the weather pillar took place at the place desired by the donors.
description
The weather pillar has a natural stone base, the inscriptions of which provide information about the height above sea level and the donors of the pillar. The actual building is made of brick and has four niches lined with contemporary tiles. The tent roof is covered with tiles and carries a weather vane that shows the city's coat of arms.
The niches were once open, but are now protected from vandalism by close-meshed lattice doors, even though the weather pillar no longer contains the original instruments. The construction costs for the weather pillar amounted to 800 marks, of which 247 marks went to the instruments. These original instruments came from the Mollenkopf company in Stuttgart . In the niche on the north side there was a thermometer according to Réaumur and Celsius, on the east side there was a thermometer according to Réaumur and Celsius and a barometer aneroid, on the south side there was a distance table with around 50 target points for walks and excursions and a weather map showing the was renewed daily, and on the west side a board with dew point rules and Lambrecht's polymeter , which also included a barometer according to Celsius and Fahrenheit, which allowed the barometer readings to be reduced to 0 ° and the correction according to the sea level in millimeters.
literature
- Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 95 with ill. 132
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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 30.4 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 14.5" E