Saxon postal mileage column Oederan

Half-mile column in Oederan

The listed Saxon post mile pillar Oederan is one of the post mile pillars that were erected on behalf of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony by Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner in the first half of the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony . It is located on the Poststrasse Dresden - Freiberg - Chemnitz - Zwickau - Hof in the course of the Alte Frankenstrasse on Freiberger Strasse in the small Saxon town of Oederan in the district of Central Saxony .

history

The half-mile column bears the year 1722 and the inscriptions Oedran 1/2 St. or Chemnitz 5 1/8 St. and the row number 22. It consists of Hilbersdorfer porphyry tuff and once stood in front of Oederan, coming from Freiberg, on the right of the street. The shaft of the column served for several decades as a stone bench at the rifle house on Freiberger Straße in Oederan. At the suggestion of the Oederan architect Richard Kempe, the bank was turned and inscriptions came to light. After the missing head and foot sections were added, it was re-erected at the Schützenhaus in 1922 and later moved to the city center. The column is not aligned in the direction of travel and grows more and more.

literature

• Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. Transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 325–326, ISBN 3-344-00264-3

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 8.9 ″  E