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Mechernich

Reconstructed Prussian Surveying Tower Kommern

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Mechernich

Reconstructed Prussian Surveying Tower Kommern

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Reconstructed Prussian Surveying Tower Kommern

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Location: Mechernich, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Bumble-Bee

December 31, 2018

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A surveying tower is a tower built over a trigonometric point, the top of which is used for aiming and often also has an observation platform itself. Numerous surveying towers …

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Axel 🥾🐕🚴🏃 OUTDOORSEITE

January 3, 2021

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This tower has greeted me so many times when I visited the open-air museum. Today I passed there on a hike. It is worth taking a look at the information board.

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R.Bungartz

April 10, 2023

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The tower is a reconstruction of a Prussian survey tower. Before the advent of satellite-based point determination z. B. with GPS, the determination of the main survey points for the creation of maps was a time-consuming business. Because there had to be a line of sight between the measurement points. If the view between these points, which are often more than 50 kilometers apart, was obstructed by mountains or vegetation, for example, heavy wooden scaffolding had to be erected for the measurement. Source: eifelverein-mechernich.de/index.php/satzung-2/service/343-eifelschleife-vom-muehlensee-zum-eifelblick

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Elevation 310 m

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