Milestone (Blätz)

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All-mile obelisk in Blätz

The Blätz milestone is located in the center of Blätz ( Burgstall municipality ) in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt

The all-mile obelisk is located where today the K 1179 (Burgstaller Straße) meets the K 1180 (Breite Straße). It is assigned to the old postal road Magdeburg – Stendal and is one of the older Prussian milestones that arose before the French occupation . It was planned to renovate the stone back in 1999. In 2001, however, this was only superficial, so that the heavily weathered milestone from around 1800 can only be regarded as restored to a limited extent.

The improvement of the road from Hamburg to Leipzig, which also includes this all-mile obelisk, is considered to be the first Prussian highway project and was decided as early as 1786. The actual implementation of the complete plan did not take place until the years 1825 to 1830.

The distance stone is included in the monument register as a monument with registration number 094 15938.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the sign next to the stone: "Prussian milestone. Erected around 1800 from the old Magdeburg-Stendal post road ”.
  2. ↑ Olaf Grell: Brief reports , in: Arbeitsmaterial (1999) 39, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Olaf Grell: Brief reports , in: Arbeitsmaterial (2002) 43, p. 53.
  4. ↑ Hans Hummel: Preußischer Chausseebau - 200 years Chaussee Magdeburg – Halle – Leipzig , in: Die Straße 26 (1986) 11, pp. 344–347.
  5. ↑ Hans Hummel: Anhaltinische, kursächsische and Prussische Chausseebauten between 1764 and 1806 , in: Die Straße 27 (1987) 7, pp. 216-220.
  6. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 44 ″  E