Milestone (long arch)

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Whole milestone in Langenbogen

The Prussian milestone in Langenbogen is on the western outskirts of Langenbogen ( Teutschenthal municipality ) in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt.

The Prussian Chaussee leading from Langenbogen to Eisleben was a section of the Chaussee Berlin – Kassel, which was built between 1824 and 1826. The predecessor road Halle – Langenbogen, which was built under French direction in 1809 and 1810, only led to the Royal Langenbogen lignite mine. It was probably cleared of the milestones in the course of the conversion from miles to kilometers in the 1870s, because these can only be verified via map entries. The first all-mile obelisk west of Halle was at the Granau cemetery . While there is not a single milestone between Halle and Langenbogen, the majority of the milestones between Langenbogen and Sangerhausen have been preserved.

Although all the milestones between Langenbogen and Nordhausen correspond to the principle of small bell (quarter mile), large bell (half a mile), obelisk (whole mile), the whole milestone of Langenbogen has a different shape that has not yet been finally clarified. Most likely, however, is that the road embankment built here could not have supported a complete all-mile obelisk with benches and that the milestone would then have sunk relatively quickly. A replacement stone was therefore chosen, which was provided with a simple oval, as known from the older type of Prussian milestone.

The stone was made of light-colored sandstone, which probably comes from Nebra, and marked the distance of 24 miles from Dönhoffplatz in Berlin on the Chaussee Berlin – Kassel . It is not possible to say exactly whether and how deep it has sunk into the embankment, but it protrudes more than a meter from the ground. Although the stone is not mentioned in the list of monuments , like every milestone in Saxony-Anhalt, it is under monument protection as a small monument .

literature

  • Martin Beitz: The milestone locations in the Halle area. Part 2: The Chaussee Berlin – Halle – Kassel and its branches. In: Das Meilenstein-Journal 37 (2017) 73, pp. 25–31. Online version (pdf), accessed October 21, 2018.
  • Hilmar Burghardt: 1826-2006. 180 years of construction of the Prussian Art Route Langenbogen – Nordhausen; 180 years of milestones in the Mansfeld region. In: Zeitschrift für Heimatforschung 14 (2005), pp. 76–83.
  • Wernfried Fieber, Udo Münnich, Bodo Wemhöner: Small monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. (= Small booklets on archeology in Saxony-Anhalt; 14), Halle (Saale) 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beitz, 2017, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Ganzmeilenstein (Langenbogen) , Saalekreis im Bild, accessed on October 25, 2018
  3. ^ Burghardt, 2005, p. 78.
  4. ↑ Fieber, 2017, p. 54. - See the list of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - Answer of the state government to a small question for a written answer (from the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) - Printed matter 6/3905 of March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670).

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 58.6 "  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 43.5"  E