Senftenberg postal mileage pillar
The listed Electoral Saxon distance column Senftenberg is one of 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 located in the market in the southern Brandenburg town of Senftenberg in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .
history
According to the archival materials handed down in the Saxon State Archives - Main State Archives Dresden - the distance column was made in 1730 and erected in 1731 on the market square there at the expense of the Senftenberg City Council. It carried distance hours (1 hour away / hour = 4.531 km) in all four directions. Due to the cession of extensive areas of the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815, the distance information became partially unusable. The Saxon-Polish-Lithuanian alliance coat of arms on the column was also felt to be out of date in the Prussian monarchy. After several complaints, the Saxon distance column was dismantled in 1847 and most of its stones were used as building material. The salvaged colored coat of arms of the column was the only remaining piece and ended up in the Senftenberg District Museum, where it is still located today.
With the support of the Saxon Post Mile Columns Research Group under André Kaiser , which has existed since 1964, a local stonemason made a replica of the distance column at the expense of the city of Senftenberg, set it up at the old location on the market and ceremoniously unveiled on October 18, 2000. The inscriptions on the column could be found in the files preserved in the archive.
Structure of the distance pillars
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
- Rudolf Lehmann: On the history of the post column in Senftenberg. In: From home. For home number 16 (Senftenberger Anzeiger)
- Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Hrsg.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen. transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00264-3 .
Web links
- Post mile column Senftenberg - senftenberg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The post mile column in Senftenberg - article in wize.life.
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 35.4 " N , 13 ° 0 ′ 30.6" E