Saxon postal mileage column in Bad Liebenwerda
The electoral Saxon Postmeilensäule Bad Liebenwerda belongs to the post mile column , on behalf of the elector I. Frederick Augustus 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. It is a replica of a distance column decorated with a coat of arms. It is located on the Rossmarkt in the Brandenburg town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district .
history
The column was erected after 1730. The stonemason commissioned was Johann Georg Schuhmacher from Torgau , from whom original parts of the Belgern distance column are still preserved in the local museum. According to a memorandum that has been handed down to us, the distance column was removed by 1824 at the latest after Liebenwerda fell to the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony .
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. was able to build a replica of the column on the Rossmarkt on April 13, 2003 with the help of donations. The inscriptions that no longer exist are from the research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen e. V. has been reconstructed. The year was not given.
construction
The distance column 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, p. 285, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
- Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.): Circular No. 78, December 2003
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 56.8 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 40.5 ″ E