Zero kilometer stone ( Hung. „0” kilométerkő ) is a three-meter zero-shaped stone sculpture, which is installed in Budapest and is a reference point for determining distances from all points of Hungary to Budapest. The stone is located in a small park on Adam Clark Square, just before the entrance to the Chain Bridge. The stone is a stylized typographical zero, it shows only two letters KM. From this point all distances between Budapest and any point of Hungary are counted, as well as the lengths of all state roads in Hungary (except for the 1st and 8th ), including 10 th , 11th and the 31st [1] .
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Location
Initially, the stone was located at the Buda Castle as the starting point for measuring the distance to the imperial and royal palace, its appearance was not preserved. In 1849 the stone was transferred to the Chain Bridge. At the beginning of the XX century Pal Festetich He proposed to establish a series of starting points for the transport network in the city, which was later implemented by the Hungária Automobile Club.
In 1932, by order of the Ministry of Commerce, the first monument was installed at the Chain Bridge, the author was a sculptor Jeno Eugene) Kormendi . The monument was a marble statue in the form of a pedestrian, a coachman and a driver. During World War II, the statue was destroyed. A new sculpture, depicting a worker with an automobile wheel, has been in the place of a stone since 1953 ( Laszlo Molnar was the author of the sculpture The old one was moved to the XVII district to the railway station. The new sculpture was solemnly opened on April 4, 1975 [2] .
Similar stones
Similar stones and monuments were placed in many cities of Hungary and the whole world. The most famous was Milliarium Aureum , established under Octavian Augustus in the Roman Forum, and, according to legend, this was the reason for the birth of the saying “All roads lead to Rome” [3] . In Moscow, a similar mark is the “ Zero kilometer of highways of the Russian Federation ”; there are similar marks in Kiev, Minsk and Washington (in the USA it is a zero-mile stone ) [4] .
See also
- Zero kilometer
Notes
- ↑ ˝0˝ kilométerkő, Budapest . Vendégváró . The appeal date is August 1, 2008. (not available link)
- ↑ Április 4. - A 0 kilométerkő felállítása a budapesti Clark Ádám téren - 1975 . Jeles Napok . Neumann-ház. The appeal date is June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Schaaf, P. (1867/1886). Ante-nicene fathers: The Apostolic fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus [Roberts, A. & Donaldson, J, Eds]. [Electronic reprint] Grand Rapids, MI, USA: CCEL.
- ↑ Zero kilometer in different countries and cities (Russian)
Links
- A „0” kilométerkő a Vendégvárón (inaccessible link) (Hung.)
- A 0 kilométerkő , Sulinet (Hung.)
- Krónika , Élet és Tudomány (Hungarian)