Milestone (Jeber Mountain Peace)

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Milestone Jeber Bergfrieden

The milestone in Jeber-Bergfrieden is a small monument in the town of Coswig (Anhalt) in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection , but has not yet been entered in the monument register.

location

In the south of the village across from the mouth of the Siedlungsweg at Landesstrasse 120 .

History and shape

Although the history of the milestones in Anhalt has been well researched, it has not yet been clarified why the stone from Jeber-Bergfrieden bears the specification 30 KM / 3 Myriameter / from Zerbst . It is known that milestones were set on the more important roads in Anhalt in the early 1850s. The distances to each other were 7532 meters, which corresponded to a Prussian mile , which was introduced as an official measure of length in 1841.

These were relocated at the beginning of the 1870s after a re-measurement of the land on the basis of the new mile (7500 meters long), but shortly afterwards the kilometer replaced the mile as a measure of length, so that a new measurement was necessary, which also had to be relocated the stones led. Typical of the area north of Dessau are so-called myriameter stones, i.e. stones every 10,000 meters. The zero point of the first and second measurements was the Dessau residential palace , but this is only 20 kilometers away on a direct route. As this is almost exactly the case, the stone was either moved here after the original was lost or it was improperly restored, with the 20 becoming a 30.

The reference to Zerbst / Anhalt was only made during the third survey of Anhalt, which is to be settled after 1874. No precise information is available about this measurement, but it seems to have started on the Roland in the Zerbst market. From this point the stone is a little more than 21 kilometers away, so that this does not provide any explanation either. Since the following stones towards Coswig have no legible inscriptions, this question must remain open for the time being.

The 75 centimeter high granite stone is like all Anhalt milestones a round base stone. The last time the inscription was touched up was in 2000, but it is reproduced in 1995 as 30 KM . In addition, it was first documented photographically in November 1979.

literature

  • Walter Gollmer: Old milestones. In: Zerbster Heimatkalender 1987, pp. 51–55.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhaltische Milestones II. In: Heimatkalender Kreis Roßlau 1992, pp. 65–72.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones in the photo (part 3 and conclusion). In: Arbeitsmaterial 15 (1995) 29, pp. 28-35.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones? In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde 4 (1995), pp. 42–77.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones - road construction monuments of the 19th century. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt 7 (1997), pp. 32–35.
  • Olaf Grell: News in brief. Saxony-Anhalt. In: Das Meilenstein-Journal 20 (2000) 40, pp. 39-42.
  • Hans Hummel: Anhaltinische, kursächsische and Prussische Chausseebauten between 1764 and 1806. In: Die Straße 27 (1987) 7, S. 216-220.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf, 9.9 MB) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the delegates Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 of March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670). Not even in the 2017 and 2018 updates.
  2. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, p. 51; Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, pp. 52-53.
  4. ↑ Gollmer, 1992, pp. 67-68.
  5. ↑ Gollmer, Anhaltische Milestones ?, 1995, p. 58.
  6. ↑ Grell, p. 40; Gollmer, Anhaltische Milestones in the photo, pp. 28 & 34.

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 51.7 "  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 56.4"  E