Alte Poststrasse (Graz)

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Street sign for Alte Poststrasse in the Lend district

Alte Poststraße is the name of the longest street in Graz , which crosses the urban area on the right side of the Mur from north to south parallel to the Mur and can already be identified as Roman street .

history

The Roman road Poetovio - Poedicum led from the Ptuj / Pettau area via Flavia Solva to Bruck an der Mur , with connections further north to the Danube region. Its course is documented here by two milestones near Feldkirchen near Graz . From there, following the current course of the Triester Straße , it led to Puntigam , where the Alte Poststraße begins in the south and runs to Gösting . From there, the former center of the Gösting rulership, a connection led over the Weinzödlbrücke to Grabenstrasse, the second north exit of Graz.

The main road Vienna – Trieste followed this course later . This Alte Poststraße also crossed the Strata Hungarica , which crosses the Grazer Feld in an east-west direction. The crossing point was presumably near the later Reininghaus (Graz) brewery in the area of ​​the intersection of Alte Poststraße and today's Friedhofgasse , which was called the toll road until 1593 , as the largest urban toll building, the Steinhaus auf dem Steinfeld , was located here on Steinfeld in the late Middle Ages had erected. Along the Alte Poststrasse there were, among other things, Roman manors, Karlau Castle (today Graz-Karlau Prison ), execution sites (e.g. on the western edge of the central cemetery ), defensive entrenchments, brick pits (built in the Lend district during the early days ) and much more. Before the city was expanded in 1938, Alte Poststrasse had formed the western border of the city of Graz since 1361. In the Middle Ages the street was also called Hochstraße . The road was the quickest bypass of the city in a north-south direction for stagecoaches .

literature

  • Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (Ed.): History of the City of Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4

Web links

Commons : Alte Poststraße, Graz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl A. Kubinzky : The streets of Graz , in: Steirerkrone from April 5, 2009, p. 37.