Milestone No. 5 (Dirmstein)

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Milestone No. 5
Kilometer stone 5 near Dirmstein

Kilometer stone 5 near Dirmstein

Data
place Dirmstein
builder Kingdom of Bavaria
Architectural style Sandstone pillar
Construction year 19th century
Coordinates 49 ° 34 '5.2 "  N , 8 ° 14' 5.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '5.2 "  N , 8 ° 14' 5.1"  E
Milestone No. 5 (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Milestone No. 5

The kilometer stone no. 5 on the field mark of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Dirmstein is an hour column that was set up in the 19th century to indicate the distance. The current suffix "5" is apparently derived from the kilometer inscription.

Geographical location

The kilometer stone is about 600 m west of the Dirmsteiner residential development on the north side of the state road 453 , which leads via Obersülzen to Grünstadt . The distance to the historic center of Grünstadt is about 5 km or an hour's walk.

The location is 145  m above sea level. NHN on the northeast slope of the Goldberg , over whose 162  m high ridge a small stretch south of the L 453 runs the watershed between the Eckbach in the south and its left tributary Floßbach in the north.

Material and appearance

The stone consists of a cylindrically hewn stone column from the red sandstone of the nearby Palatinate Forest , which protrudes almost 130 cm from the ground, is about 45 cm thick and has a flat, conical "roof". The original black inscription on a white background in Fraktur is regularly renewed. The circular informs about the distance of "1 hour / 5 kilometers to Grünstadt". The type of lettering assumes that the reader passes the stone at walking pace; when a motor vehicle is driving by quickly, the content cannot be fully recorded.

Building history

The kilometer stone is one of Dirmstein's protected cultural monuments . It was built in the 19th century. The Kingdom of Bavaria , to which today's Palatinate belonged since 1816 , provided the area with such distance information from 1833. These were usually set up every hour on foot. From 1872, the stones were also given kilometers. Since the kilometer stone No. 5 carries such information, it can be assumed that it will be erected, or at least that it will be updated during this time.

In the course of time the milestone has leaned slightly towards the road. The cause may have been excavation work during road expansion in the second half of the 20th century. The slope of the stone was compensated when taking the photo.

On July 8, 2010, the milestone broke in two when an agricultural vehicle drove against it while maneuvering. The roughly horizontal crack ran below the center and required dismantling and repair. The reworked stone was put back in early March 2011; the previous break is barely visible as a faint light stripe.

literature

  • Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . 2006.
  3. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 30 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
  4. User dialect poet : E-Mail to user chronicler 47 . June 1, 2008 (information: "Holding the camera at an angle").
  5. Grünstadt police station: Email to user Mundartpoet . July 23, 2010 (forwarded to user Chronicler 47 on July 26, 2010).
  6. Number 5 knocks it off the base . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen July 23, 2010.
  7. User dialect poet : E-Mail to user chronicler 47 . March 24, 2011.