Saxon postal mileage column Bad Brambach
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The listed Electoral Saxony Postmeilensäule Bad Bramstedt is one of the Saxon post mile columns , 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 after it has re-measured the post and military roads in the Electorate of Saxony with a so-called geometric car and carried out a topographical survey of the state, the results of which have been recorded in numerous detailed office maps and associated descriptions.
It is a quarter milestone in Electoral Saxony. It is located in the Rohrbach district on the corner of Grenzweg / Wiesengrund on Alte Egerer Poststrasse in the Vogtland community of Bad Brambach in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony . With the construction of the trunk road through the Rauner Grund , the former Reichstrasse and today's Bundesstrasse 92 , the historic Poststrasse has completely lost its importance and partly only exists as a field and forest path or even only as a forest aisle. The Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden hold corresponding archives from the time the quarter milestone was set up in the first half of the 18th century.
history
The Saxon quarter milestone bears the year 1725 and number 81 on the front and back, as well as the intertwined monogram AR ( Augustus Rex ) for the Saxon Elector and Polish King Augustus the Strong . The stone is made of granite and was located 20¼ miles from the royal seat of Dresden on the post road to Eger in the Kingdom of Bohemia . It had disappeared for a long time because the old system of the Saxon miles had been replaced in 1840 and the stone had therefore become useless and was misused. It was found in 1935 as a cover plate for a water channel in what was then the Brambach radium bath during earthworks and at that time it was re-erected next to the market fountain there.
The neighboring Rohrbach was determined as the original location of the stone by the local history researcher E. Stübiger from Bad Brambach and the local community thereupon raised a claim to this monument of postal and transport history at the beginning of January 1950 by decision of the community representatives. However, the municipal administration of Bad Brambach initially did not comply with the request of the neighboring municipality of Rohrbach to voluntarily hand over the quarter milestone. The community representatives of Rohrbach turned to the public education department at the council of the Oelsnitz district, which, as the lower nature conservation authority, was responsible for clarifying such disputes. There it was recommended to leave the stone in Bad Brambach because it could be seen there by numerous spa guests, which would not be the case in Rohrbach, which is quite remote .
The representative of the then State Office for Monument Preservation in Dresden, Dr. Langer, included. The Rohrbach community continued to insist on the return of the quarter milestone and informed the Bad Brambach town council that the stone would be picked up there on December 9, 1950, which was what happened afterwards.
In 1973 the headpiece of the Saxon quarter milestone, which was lost before 1935, was supplemented by a replica.
literature
- Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. Transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 182, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
- Herbert Stübiger: Overview of how to find the four post mile pillars in the upper Vogtland. In: Kulturbote for the music corner. 1966, issue 8.
- Herbert Stübiger: December 9, 1950 - Return of the quarter mile stone from Brambach to Rohrbach. In: Kulturbote for the music corner. 1969, issue 5.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Stübinger 1969
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 44.6 ″ E