Auma postal mileage pillar
The listed Electoral Saxony Postmeilensäule Auma belongs to the post mile column , on behalf of the Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony by the land and border commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner in the first half of the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony have been built. The distance column adorned with coat of arms is on the market in Auma in the Thuringian district of Greiz .
history
The distance column was erected on the market square in 1722. At that time the postal service ran through the city from Leipzig via Gera and Weida to Schleiz and Hof . The column was restored in 1883 and 1922. Immediately before the end of the Second World War , the column was destroyed. A copy was then made, although there were historical errors in the design of the base area. The writing side with the Trinity drop and the inscriptions "Immanuel" and "God with us" does not correspond to the original condition either. This was not changed during the last restoration. Two writing blocks (shafts) that were no longer used during restorations are now in the museum courtyard.
construction
Like almost all distance columns, it consists of seven parts. The base, pedestal and the crown of the pedestal form the substructure. The superstructure consists of an intermediate plate, shaft, coat of arms and tip.
literature
- Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 168–169, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 58.2 ″ N , 11 ° 54 ′ 1.9 ″ E