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Gauss Stone – Survey Point on the Kleperberg
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December 12, 2021
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This used to be the end of the Göttingen Planet Trail. Contrary to the monument protection requirements, the "Plutotafel" was attached to the measuring pedestal and had to be removed again.
•February 3, 2022
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•August 1, 2021
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It was one of the first measurement points in the Gaussian survey and formed a triangle with the Hohen Hagen and the Göttingen observatory.
Gauss stones are historical surveying pillars that the mathematician and geodesist Carl Friedrich Gauß had erected around 1820 to measure the Kingdom of Hanover. You can find them mainly in the area of today's Lower Saxony. Most of the remaining stones are under monument protection.
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