Post-mile pillar in Saxony, Bad Düben

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Two remnants of the original shaft part, installed next to the entrance gate to the Sommerfeld mill in Tiefensee
Replica at the original location in the Eisenhammer district of Tornau

The post mile pillar in Bad Düben is one of the post mile pillars that were built 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 . These are two remnants of the shaft part of a half-mile column. This is located in the district of Tiefensee in a property wall to the right of the entrance gate to the local mill in the northern Saxon town of Bad Düben in the district of northern Saxony .

history

The half-mile column had its original location in the district Eisenhammer of Tornau , where today is a replica. The bricked-up remnants of the column were discovered in the mid-1990s.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 42.4 "  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 27.5"  E