The Ferdinandstein is a prominent rock in the Harz National Park in central Germany
3-570: The Ferdinandstein lies at an elevation of 648 metres above sea level near Plessenburg in the borough of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains . The rock is a granite boulder that is a typical product of spheroidal weathering . The rock is inscribed with the words " Ferdinands Stein ". Behind it on a smaller rock embedded in the ground is the inscription " Hier schoss Ferdinand Graf zu Stolberg Wernigerode am 23ten Merz 1798 einen Wolf " (" Here Ferdinand, Count of Stolberg- Wernigerode shot
6-859: A wolf on 23 March 1798 "). This was the last wolf living in the wild that was shot by the Count. The rock is checkpoint no. 16 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. 51°49′25″N 10°39′08″E / 51.82350°N 10.65210°E / 51.82350; 10.65210 Normalnull Normalnull ("standard zero") or Normal-Null (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked Meter über Normal-Null (“meters above standard zero”). Normalnull has been replaced by Normalhöhennull (NHN). In 1878 reference heights were taken from
9-780: The Amsterdam Ordnance Datum and transferred to the New Berlin Observatory in order to define the Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . Normalnull has been defined as a level going through an imaginary point 37.000 m below Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . When the New Berlin Observatory was demolished in 1912 the reference point was moved east to the village of Hoppegarten (now part of the town of Müncheberg , Brandenburg , Germany ). This cartography or mapping term article
#535464