Post-mile pillar of the Electoral Saxony Grünhain district
The listed post mile pillar in Grünhain 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 . The distance column adorned with coat of arms is located on Zwönitzer Straße in front of the official building in the Grünhain district of the western Ore Mountains town of Grünhain-Beierfeld in the Ore Mountains district .
history
The column was erected below the market square in 1732 after all efforts by the city council to refrain from erecting a distance column had failed. In the course of a beer war, the column lost its coat of arms in the middle of the 19th century. It was thrown into the nearby monastery pond and disappeared. In 1894 the leaning column was removed and rebuilt on a new foundation. In 1925 a car hit the pillar and caused it to collapse. It was then given its current location in front of the office building. Between 1978 and 1985 the column was completely restored and the missing coat of arms was added by the master sculptor Christian Hempel from Dresden . On May 7, 1985 the inauguration of the restored column took place.
construction
Like almost all distance columns, it 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 (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 242–245, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 45.4 " N , 12 ° 48 ′ 34.6" E