Saxon quarter milestone Bad Langensalza

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The quarter milestone on the far right

The listed Electoral Saxony quarter milestone Bad Langensalza one of the post mile column , on behalf of the Elector Friedrich August I 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. Today it is located on Wiebeckplatz (formerly Ernst-Thälmann-Platz) in front of the city museum in the Thuringian spa town of Bad Langensalza in the Unstrut-Hainich district . Opposite the quarter milestone on the other side of the path is a Prussian bell stone.

history

The stone bears the year 1729 and the row number 63. It was originally located 15¾ miles from Leipzig . It is the remainder of a travertine quarter milestone . The tip is missing. The original location of the stone was at the fork in Felsenkellerstraße.

literature

  • Lexicon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , Berlin 1989, pp. 276–277.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 33 "  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 35.9"  E