Chemnitz quarter milestone in Electoral Saxony

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Quarter milestone in Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf

The listed Electoral Saxony quarter milestone Chemnitz is one of the post mile columns that I on behalf of the Elector Friedrich August von Sachsen by 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 on Leipziger Strasse, the old post road from Leipzig to Prague in the Saxon city ​​of Chemnitz .

history

The stone bears the year 1723. The original of the stone no longer had a row number. The number 31 was hammered into the current copy, but it could originally have been stone no.33.

literature

  • Lexicon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , Berlin 1989, pp. 263–264.

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 32 "  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 37.5"  E