The Saxon quarter milestone Zwönitz

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Replica of a quarter milestone in Zwönitz

The electoral Saxon quarter milestone Zwönitz one of the post mile column , on behalf of the Elector Frederick Augustus 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. It is located on the old post road from Chemnitz to Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , today's connecting road to Dorfchemnitz in the small town of Zwönitz in the Western Ore Mountains in the Ore Mountains .

history

This quarter milestone is a replica of the post milestone originally located not far from this point from 1724 with the number 45 on the then post road from Chemnitz to Schwarzenberg . The stone was erected at the end of the 1990s on behalf of the city of Zwönitz together with two other copies, a full and half-mile column from the Electoral Saxony region , and in contrast to the original, which was made of Greifenstein granite , it was made of Elbe sandstone with a base made of Lusatian granite .

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 47.5 ″  N , 12 ° 48 ′ 46.2 ″  E

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