Saxon post mile pillar Aue

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The Aue post mile pillar in Electoral Saxony is one of the post mile pillars that were erected in the first half of the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony on behalf of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony by Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner . Only a remnant piece of the shaft of the distance column, which is currently in private ownership, has survived.

history

The distance column originally stood on the market square of Aue , not far from the town hall, which was demolished immediately after 1900. Your exact location was at the corner of Lößnitzer Strasse and Schwarzwasserbrücke. In 1727 this location was determined by Zürner's conductor Johann Christian Zschornicke. The column was erected in 1730 and bore 76 location information. After 1850 the column was demolished and used as building material.

In December 1968, a remnant 20 cm high piece of the shaft with six place names came to light in the Schulstrasse 3 property. It was expanded and was given a place in the permanent exhibition set up at the time on the Saxon post mile columns in Frohburg Castle . In 2009 the remnant was again in private ownership.

literature

  • Jana Behm: The distance column from Aue. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , issue 1/2009, p. 27
  • Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 166-167 u. 267, ISBN 3-344-00264-3