This is the so-called “Mercator point” 📍 in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. Cartographer Gerhard Mercator lived there for a few years as a child.
This is the so-called “Mercator point” 📍 in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. Cartographer Gerhard Mercator lived there for a few years as a child.
interesting. why did they make it so phallic?
It might have looked much less phallic when it had not gotten weathered like it’s now. And maybe all kinds of columns were more commonplace back then, in general? You don’t really see new columns being erected (no pun indented) these days.