Saxon post mileage column Bad Elster
The listed half-mile column Bad Elster is one of the post-mile columns 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 . It is located on Kirchberg in the small town of Bad Elster in West Saxony in the Vogtland district .
history
The half-mile column bears the year 1724 and the inscriptions Adorf 1 St. 1/8 and Asch 2 St., Eger 7 St. and the row number 78. The shaft of this column made of Kapellenberg granite was found in 1933 in Kirchstraße in Bad Elster when the Road was built. In the following year, the part of this column that was found was placed near the site. In 1982 the column was restored and in 1983 it was re-erected in front of the gable of the kindergarten, in a green area on the church square, opposite the town hall, after the base and headpiece had been expertly added, but made of sandstone. During a restoration on the initiative of the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Bad Elster Bathing Museum in October 2011, the previously upside-down column was realigned again so that the distance information can be read in the direction of travel.
literature
- Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. Transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 105, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
- Ronny Hager: Post miles column has been upside down for 30 years. In: Free Press , Upper Vogtland, 27./28. October 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 51.2 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 10.4" E