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3. Kaiserswerth Imperial Palace – Rhine Riverside at Wittlaer loop from Kittelbachstraße

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

January 15, 2020

59 (LIX) - km 757.48 - right bank of the Rhine - Düsseldorf (district Wittlaer) - approx. 400 m north of Haus Werth (former tow station)

"... Myriameter stones are measuring marks. A myriameter (from ancient Greek μυριάς myrias" ten thousand "- see myriad) corresponds to 10,000 meters, ie 10 kilometers.

Myriameter stones on the Rhine

These historical milestones are placed every ten thousand meters to the right and left of the Rhine between Basel and Rotterdam. ... "

wikiwand.com/de/Myriameterstein

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Janett

March 27, 2021

Myriameter stone 59 dates from 1867. These historic milestones were placed every 10 kilometers along the Rhine between Basel and Rotterdam.

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Carlo63

January 19, 2024

After the Upper Rhine had been successfully straightened, the Rhine began to be precisely measured in 1864.

This was ordered by the Central Commission for Rhine Navigation (CCNR), the world's first international organization founded in 1815, which still exists today and in which all states bordering the Rhine are represented. Stones, the so-called “myriameter stones”, were to be erected every 10,000 meters as landmarks between the (middle) Basel Rhine bridge to the mouth near Rotterdam. As is well known, the Rhine divides near Millingen on what is now the German-Dutch border into the Waal and the Nederrijn, which is later called Lek. The reference point for the Myriameter stones was in the middle of the (old) Rotterdam harbor; Today the mouth of the Lek behind Hook van Holland is considered the measuring point. Because the survey of the Rhine was primarily a project of the states of Baden, Hesse and Prussia at the time, the Netherlands did not take part in it. That's why myriameter stones only existed between Basel and Rees.

Source and link to the full article:

the-duesseldorfer.de/wer-hat-eigentlich-den-rhein-ausgemessen-von-myrametersteinen-und-stromkilometern/?pdf=33406

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Myriameter Stone 59 (Düsseldorf-Wittlaer)

1. Haus Werth tow station – Kalkum Castle loop from Kittelbachstraße

2. Haus Werth tow station – Kaiserswerth Old Town loop from Wittlaer

3. Kaiserswerth Imperial Palace – Rhine Riverside at Wittlaer loop from Kittelbachstraße

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