This is the so-called “Mercator point” 📍 in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. Cartographer Gerhard Mercator lived there for a few years as a child.
Cartographer Gerhard Mercator lived there for a few years as a child.
Oh, I thought this was going to be something like the prime meridian, but for the mercator projection
Still cool
That does not appear to be the same point. The inscriptions are different.
It is, been there and took the photo 🙂
Ok. Maybe the inscription is different on the other side? It says 51 degrees in your picture, but 6 degrees in the photos I see on Google Maps.
Nice one, but not in northwestern Germany; It is near the Dutch border, but it’s the most southern part of the Netherlands, which would be about dead center on the north-south axis of Germany.
interesting. why did they make it so phallic?
It might have looked much less phallic when it had not gotten weathered like it’s now. And maybe all kinds of columns were more commonplace back then, in general? You don’t really see new columns being erected (no pun indented) these days.
