Saxon post mile column in Bautzen

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The listed post mile pillar in Bautzen is one of the post mile pillars 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 an incomplete full mile column. It is located on the corner of Kornmarkt and Rosenstrasse, not far from the Reichenturm in the district town of Bautzen .

history

The column belonged to Poststrasse in the course of the Hohe Strasse between Kamenz and Bautzen and had its original location in the Schmole district . It bears the year 1725 and the row number 76. The column was improperly restored, which concerns the addition of the missing parts of the base and top. The remainder of the column was found in 1936 in a border wall on the property at Gerberstrasse 19 (Nikolaistufen) . On October 27, 1957, the column, which was supplemented with a simplified base and a head piece that was too short, without the initials AR [= Augustus Rex], was re-erected near the city center on Bautzen's Kornmarkt.

  • View from the west, in the background the Reichenturm

  • View from the east with information on the distance to the Schweinerden post office (near Panschwitz )

  • Inscription detail with distance to Bautzen (Budissin)

literature

  • Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 172, ISBN 3-344-00264-3

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 50.7 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 41.3"  E