Lindau messenger

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The Lindauer Bote ( Italian: Corriere di Lindo ), also called Mailänder Bote and 'Fußacher Bote', was a transport service between the cities of Lindau and Milan . Possibly from 1322 (this beginning is not documented) to 1824 (or 1826) goods, mail and travelers were transported by the Lindau messenger.

The journey lasted at least five days for the approximately 325 kilometers and took the Ordinari (regular messengers) by ship from Lindau to Fußach , by horse or cart through the Rhine Valley , over the Viamala by horse or on foot over the Splügen Pass and, after Crossing Lake Como to Milan. Accidents, bad roads and storms sometimes increased the transport time by several days. The Lindauer Bote ran weekly between the two cities.

Passengers

For 122 guilders, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and a companion used the Lindau messenger to cross the Alps on the occasion of his return from the first trip to Italy in May / June 1788. Later he wrote the work Italian trip based on his diaries .

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) was one of the passengers, as was the Augsburg businessman Ulrich Fugger . The Lindau messenger drove him to Italy to visit his trading partners.

Stamp

To stamp day which gave German Post published a postage stamp to Lindauer messenger with the nominal value 60 cents on September 1, 2014. The design for it comes from Peter and Regina Steiner.

literature

  • Werner A. Widmann: Lindau and the "Mailänder Bote" . In: The Bodenseehanse: From the history of the great Ravensburger trading company (=  Bavaria antiqua ). No. 30 . Bayerische Vereinsbank, 1988, ZDB -ID 188391-4 , p. 53-58 .
  • Werner Dobras: The Mailänder or Lindauer Bote - a reliable transport facility between Lindau and Lombardy . In: Bündner monthly newspaper . No. 5 , 1989, ISSN  1011-6885 , pp. 339-355 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-398500 .
  • Joseph Furttenbach the Elder Ä .: Writing a tear from Lindaw to Maylland . In: Newes Itinerarium Italiae . Saur, Ulm 1627, p. 1 ff . ( digital-sammlungen.de ).

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