Magdeburger Strasse (Altstrasse)

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The Magdeburg street is an old a distance, whose origins date back to the Bronze Age to decline. It formed a north-south connection from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea via Magdeburg , Eger and Regensburg to Northern Italy .

Magdeburger Strasse between Neustadt and Hammerharlesberg, in the front right a road marking stone

history

Since amber was transported to Northern Italy on the north-south route , Magdeburger Strasse is part of the Amber Roads . The exact course and whether it was more a system of streets is controversial. In addition to amber, fish, salt and other commercial goods were also transported on this road.

The Magdeburger Straße is already mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy from Alexandria in his geography in the 2nd century.

The north-south routes are the older highways and date from the time of the Roman Empire to the time of the Merovingians and Carolingians . From the 9th century, with the eastern expansion of the Franconian Empire, the east-west connections gained in importance. This trend continued into the 17th century. From the 18th century, the importance of north-south traffic connections grew again.

Magdeburger Strasse, between Neustadt and Hammerharlesberg, information board

course

In the 15th century the Magdeburger Straße took the following course: Regensburg - Kallmünz - Burglengenfeld - Schwandorf - Schwarzenfeld - Wernberg - Weiden - Neustadt an der Waldnaab - Tirschenreuth - Mitterteich - Eger - Asch

In Asch, the route split into two branches.

The road continued from Magdeburg to the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.

In the vicinity of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Magdeburger Strasse crossed Goldene Strasse .

Trivia

Today (2019) some cycle paths run on the route of the former Magdeburger Straße , such as the Elbe cycle path from Magdeburg to Barby , the Saale cycle path from Barby to Hof, the Waldnaabtal cycle path from Neustadt an der Waldnaab to Luhe-Wildenau and the Naabtal cycle path from Luhe-Wildenau to Regensburg. The Oberpfälzer Waldverein has set up information boards on the Waldnaabtal cycle path , which runs along the former Magdeburger Straße route near Neustadt, between Neustadt an der Waldnaab and Hammerharlesberg , and the former road markers have been set up again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich-Jürgen Manske : Studies on early, high medieval and early modern long-distance routes from Regensburg to Franconia and to the Main in Regensburg, Bavaria and the Reich , Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2284-4 , p . 67, online . Retrieved October 20, 2019
  2. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria : Altbayern Series I, Issue 47: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden, p. 118
  3. ↑ a b c Major highways in the former Nordgau near Oberpfälzer Kulturbund. Retrieved October 20, 2019
  4. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern series I issue 50: Nabburg, p. 8
  5. ↑ a b The late medieval long-distance transport network of the Upper Palatinate in Günther Schwemmer: The history of iron extraction in the central Upper Palatinate in the 19th and 20th centuries , ISBN 9783832442620 , pp. 34, 35. Retrieved on October 20, 2019
  6. ↑ Abandoned streets in the past at Mittelbayerische Zeitung . Retrieved October 19, 2019
  7. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern Series I, Issue 21: Tirschenreuth, p. 201
  8. ^ Magdeburger Strasse near Hammerharlesberg near Bayernatlas . Retrieved October 19, 2019

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