Saxon post mile
The Electoral Saxon post-mile was 1,722 to 1,840 a unit of length outside the International System of Units .
history
In the Electorate of Saxony , the state parliament resolution of March 17, 1722 ( Codex Augusteus I. 23rd) and the resolution to erect post mile pillars on the post roads necessitated the introduction of a uniform measure of length throughout the Electorate . For example, the Saxon postal (border or police) mile was also specified in the state parliament resolution . Before that, there were all kinds of miles in Kursachsen, e. B. the Wendische , Gebürgische , Oberlausitzer or Meissen mile of different lengths.
The survey of the electorate carried out by Adam Friedrich Zürner on the instructions of August the Strong was able to be carried out using the Kursächsische Postmeile with a uniform length measure. The measurement results were later used as the basis for the inscriptions on the Saxon post mile pillars . The hour unit of length was used for the inscriptions, which corresponded to half a Saxon postal mile .
The Saxon Ministry of Finance set the length of the new post mile at 7,500 meters through the postal regulations for the Kingdom of Saxony of December 7, 1840 .
Saxon length units
binding from 1722–1840; (after v. Alberti )
| Post mile | League hour | Street rod |
Cubit | foot | inch | line | meter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2000 | 16000 | 32000 | 9,062.08 | ||
| ½ | 1 | 1000 | 8000 | 16000 | 4,531.04 | ||
| 1 | 8th | 16 | 192 | 2304 | 4.53104 | ||
| 1 | 2 | 24 | 288 | 0.56638 | |||
| 1 | 12 | 144 | 0.28319 |
See also
literature
- Lexicon of Saxon postal mile pillars. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1989