Saxon post mile pillar Falkenau

Quarter milestone in Falkenau

The listed post mile pillar in Falkenau 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 . It is a quarter milestone. This is located at the confluence of Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse and Dresdner Strasse in the Saxon village of Falkenau in the district of central Saxony .

history

In addition to the monogram AR and the post horn, the stone bears the year 1722 and the row number 25 of the Poststrasse Dresden - Hof in the course of the Alte Frankenstrasse . In 1819 the stone fell from its original location in a landslide and stayed there. The middle plate with the inscriptions was then walled in as a cover plate in 1840 when today's federal highway 173 was expanded into an embankment wall 600 m from its current location in the direction of Freiberg. The side curves were knocked off as they interfered with the new purpose. When this retaining wall was renewed when the road was being built around 1930, the stone was deposited on the roadside. From there it fell about 25 m to a rock ledge, where it was rescued by the Falkenhöhe innkeeper , who then set it up in the coffee garden of the inn. In 1971 the missing parts of the quarter milestone were added and in July 1972 the restored monument of postal and transport history was put up again, but not in the original orientation, with the row number facing the street.

literature

• Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 211, ISBN 3-344-00264-3

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 27.4 "  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 24.7"  E