Milestone (Altenhagen I)
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 The milestone "3 mile from Hanover" on the federal highway 217 |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 11 '19.4 " N , 9 ° 31' 43.6" E |
The milestone at the Federal Highway 217 at the spatial location Sedemünder between Jump and Altenhagen I is under preservation standing kurhannoverscher milestone .
history
The road link between the city of Hannover and Hameln , the then strongest fortress and most important Weserhafen the electorate of Hanover , was expanded in the mid-1760s to one of the first art moderately fortified highways of the country. This Hamelner Chaussee initially became a section of Reichsstraße 1 and in the late 1930s it became Bundesstraße 217. The other Göttinger Chaussee , which was paved around the same time , became today's Bundesstraße 3 .
After its completion, Anton Heinrich du Plat published a book in 1780 with a description and maps of the "Chaussee from Hanover to Hameln together with a message from the strange places along this route", in which he also included the "3rd mile column" Altenhagen mentioned.
Calenberger Miles called the distance to the Kurhannoversche Chausseen measured from a reference point on the market square of Calenberger Neustadt in Hanover. On the other hand, the kilometering of federal highway 217 begins at Tönniesbergkreisel in Hanover.
Location and description
The Altenhagener milestone is an approximately 2 m high, upwardly tapering, square obelisk made of scratched sandstone with a pyramid-shaped tip. The base, which is also made of sandstone, is clamped to the obelisk and is profiled as two tapering fluted steps one above the other. A crown is carved out on the side of the obelisk facing away from the street . Remnants of a yellow painting are visible on it. Below are the large intertwined initials GR for George III. engraved, the G is colored blue. Under the initials there is a small III framed in white . Approximately in the middle of the obelisk side, the following is engraved in a field highlighted in white and rounded at the top to indicate the distance:
"3
MILE
FROM
HANNO
VER"
The milestone mentioned by du Plat as a reference point near the Nesselberg near Altenhagen was probably moved to the approach from the main road to the Wennigs district of Bredenbeck due to road construction work in the 1970s . The kilometers stated in the monument description ("km 19.725, 6 km jump") correspond to the location and signs at the confluence at that time. During the three-lane road expansion before the Expo 2000 , this old location was built over by the Bredenbeck junction . Around 1990 the milestone was dismantled during pipeline laying work between Bredenbeck and Steinkrug and then came back to the section between Springe and Altenhagen I. It is located at the Sedemünder Straße driveway in the Springer urban area. The monument number published in the 1980s, however, identifies the milestone as a Wennigs architectural monument.
Further milestones on federal highway 217
Milestones of various sizes stood at a distance of a quarter of a mile from each other on Hamelner Chaussee, which is a good 4 miles long. The milestone at Altenhagen is recognizable by its elaborately profiled base.
A half-milestone stood at least until 1960 on the southern edge of today's Wennigs district of Evestorf (1½ miles from Hanover). The 1.80 m high stone with a base area of 35 × 35 cm has been officially lost since April 1989.
The remnants of a quarter mile stone on the main road near Ronnenberg (¾ miles from Hanover) disappeared when the road section was expanded to four lanes in the 1970s. Apparently it has been standing in the Ronnenberg locality of Kückenmühle on the way to Wettbergen since then .
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Situation diagrams of the newly built Chauséen of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg - first part. The Chaussée from Hanover to Hameln. Along with a message from the strange places on this route. Produced and edited by Anton Heinrich du Plat. Royal and Electoral Engineer-Captain. 1780, p. 87 , accessed October 20, 2018 .
- ^ A b c Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport: Chausseen in Kurhannover. The expansion phase. (PDF; 2.60 MB), accessed on October 20, 2018
- ↑ Milestones Research Group e. V .: Milestones disappeared , serial no.1496 (PDF; 1.57 MB), accessed on July 10, 2018