The Litberg (Gauss Tower)
The Litberg in Sauensiek is 65 m above sea level the highest elevation in the district of Stade. The Litberg falls thanks to the astronomer and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss a special role: on the issued by the German Bundesbank on April 16, 1991 ten-mark notes on the one hand, the scientist and his heliotrope per se, on the other a map detail with the Litberg shown.

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Der Heidjer Radler

March 22, 2019

Gauss and the Litberg
From the summer of 1821, Gauss had commissioned the surveying of his kingdom on behalf of the Hanoverian king George IV. With a sextant and mirrors, together a heliotrope, Gauss and his "helpers" climbed onto impassable hilltops and dilapidated church towers.With the help of heliotrope and the sun reflexes, Gauss was able to reach pinnacles and towers that were many kilometers away, but encountered problems in the North German plains, "where he almost misses heights," he complained. His helpers had to hit the clearing in the woods to give him a clear view. In the summer of 1823 Gauss had finally measured in extensive triangulation large parts of northern Germany - up to the then Danish Altona. The crowning achievement in the following two years was to become the last missing link: the trigonometric chain - outlined on the ten-mark billet between the endpoints of the existing Danish triangle network (Hamburg-Hohenhorn) and the easternmost leg of the Dutch degree measurement (Jever-Varel).
The Litberg played a very important role. On September 27, 1824, Gauss was delighted: "Many houses of Altona can be seen on the Litberg." The Zeven church tower was also visible from the Litberg, and the Zevener tower in good weather, if not the smoke of peat bogs darkened the sky, a line of sight to Bremen.The net was knotted, the work accomplished.

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Der Heidjer Radler

March 22, 2019

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss was born in Braunschweig in 1777 and promoted early on by the Duke of Brunswick, who recognized his extraordinary talent. Gauss studied at the University of Göttingen and was known throughout the world for his many fundamental works in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy and geodesy and received the honorary title Prinzeps Mathematica, prince of mathematicians. According to him, more than 50 laws and equations, formulas and procedures have been named - including the Gaussian normal distribution curve (shown on the dummy front), which is the basis of all statistical calculations. In his late years Gauss dealt with geophysics and geodesy. Gauss was director of the Göttingen Observatory from 1807 until his death in 1855.

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