Milestone (Güntersberge, Siptenfelder Straße)

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Anhalt whole milestone in Güntersberge
Anhalt whole milestone (left) and quarter milestone (right) in Güntersberge

The milestone in Siptenfelder Straße is a small monument in Güntersberge in the town of Harzgerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

In the Siptenfelder Straße in Güntersberge there are two Anhalt milestones right next to each other. The smaller stone is a Anhalt quarter milestone and is set back a little. The larger of the two stones is a full milestone and bears the inscription X Meilen von Dessau , some letters of which have already faded considerably. A plaque from the Milestones research group was placed on the side of the street, informing that the road measurement from Anhalt was aimed at the Leopold monument on Schlossplatz in Dessau .

Now in the hallway of Güntersberge there is also the milestone at the Forsthaus Uhlenstein , which is exactly 13 miles from Dessau. Since the Anhalt mile was the same length as the Prussian mile, namely 7.532 kilometers, this and the 13.25 indication of the quarter milestone are probably the correct ones and the X milestone must have had a higher number earlier, most likely a XIV . Since the Roman X is alone in the top line, there is enough space for it. It is said to have been erected in 1856, where exactly has not yet been proven. The only thing that is certain is that it was brought to Güntersberge.

In the monument register , the distance indicator bears the registration number 094 84983. At least one more stone was brought to Güntersberge, which is now a curbstone in the village and still bears the inscription XIII , the rest is underground. In addition, a signpost identified by a postcard can be assumed to have been built into a wall.

literature

  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 137.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones - road construction monuments of the 19th century. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt 7 (1997), pp. 32–35.
  • Olaf Grell: New findings on Anhalt milestones. In: Arbeitsmaterial 21 (2001) 42, pp. 10–15.
  • Olaf Grell: News in brief. In: Das Meilenstein-Journal 25 (2005) 50, pp. 40–51.
  • Olaf Grell: Anhalt milestones in the Harz Mountains. In: Harz-Zeitschrift 64 (2012), pp. 116–126.
  • Wolfdieter Ludwig: Mägdesprung - An old milestone is saved. In: Das Meilenstein-Journal 37 (2017) 74, pp. 34–37.
  • Wolfgang Pinkow: Güntersberge. New discovery and new knowledge. In: Das Meilenstein-Journal 29 (2009) 57, pp. 36–37.

Web links

Commons : Milestone (Güntersberge, Siptenfelder Straße)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the illustration in Gollmer, 1997, p. 34 you can still read all the letters.
  2. ↑ Grell, 2005, p. 48.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.
  4. ↑ Grell, 2001, p. 14. On the other hand, Ludwig, 2017, pp. 35–36 with different views.
  5. ↑ List of monuments, p. 137.
  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)
  7. ↑ Pinkow, pp. 36-37.

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 43.2 "  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 7.9"  E