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Survey pillar on Ochsenkopf

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Survey pillar on Ochsenkopf

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    October 14, 2024

    The Ochsenkopf summit has always been important for geographical surveys in the Fichtel Mountains. Land surveying work was carried out here as early as the 18th century. The obelisk that can still be seen today represents the remainder of the original survey pillar, which was slightly higher

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      February 27, 2023

      Always a popular photo motif, the surveying pillar with the transmission mast in the background.

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        September 25, 2022

        The summit of the Ochsenkopf has always played an important role in geographical surveys. The first more precise surveying work in the Fichtelgebirge fell during the reign of Bayreuth's Margrave Friedrich, who ruled from 1735 to 1763. The famous French cartographer and director of the observatory in Paris, Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury stayed in Bayreuth in 1761 and carried out so-called triangular measurements in the vicinity of the residential city. He chose the ox head as the trigonometric starting point. The Margrave personally accompanied the scholar to the mountain peak and was interested in working with the measuring instruments. The Fichtelgebirge Association commemorates this important visit with a stone sign on the Asenturm, which bears the inscription: "1761 Margrave Friedrich stayed here with the scholar Cassini". The survey documents are still in the state archive.

        Source and further information: bayern-fichtelgebirge.de/kleindenkmal/vermessungspfeiler.htm

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          Location: Bischofsgrüner Forst, Landkreis Bayreuth, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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