Milestone (Merseburg)

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Whole milestone in Merseburg at the new location (November 2013)

The milestone in Merseburg in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt is a historical whole milestone that indicates the distance in Prussian miles . It is a listed building as milestones in Saxony-Anhalt are both traffic and legal monuments. Today the obelisk is a few meters away from it in the course of König-Heinrich-Straße on the station forecourt. It was erected here in the course of the road construction from Halle (Saale) to Weißenfels in 1819.

Since the city on the Saale was the headquarters of the Prussian government district of Merseburg at that time, a particularly high obelisk was erected so that the entire monument reaches a height of more than five meters. In addition to the distances to Halle (two miles correspond to a little more than 15 kilometers) and Weißenfels (2 3/8 miles are 17.88 kilometers), the stone shows that it is 24 miles (180.77 kilometers) away from Berlin. This information places it in the Prussian road network, because it shows that the Chaussee from Halle to Weißenfels was planned as a connection to the Chaussee Berlin – Kassel, from which it branches off at the Steintor in Halle, where the all-mile obelisk with the inscription “Berlin 22 miles ”.

Whole milestone in Merseburg at the original location (March 2013)

In the course of the redesign of the station forecourt in 2012 and 2013, the stone was moved a few meters to the south from the northeast corner of the square and also renovated. With its additional inscription plate ( "This road from Halle to Weissenfels u under the government Friedr. William III King of Prussia in 1817, the 1818th was builded 1819th") also provides a road monument represents the milestone. In the memorial directory it is Listed as a monument under registration number 094 20217 .

In the north of Merseburg there was another milestone in the Freiimfelde district. This quarter milestone was on Halleschen Strasse ( B 91 ) opposite the entrance to the city stadium. It was cube-shaped and was accidentally destroyed in 1998.

literature

  • Angela Biemann / Wolfgang Fredrich: Milestone Merseburg converted and restored , in: Das Meilenstein-Journal 34 (2014) 67, pp. 38–40.

Web links

Commons : Milestone Merseburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ganzmeilenstein Merseburg , Merseburg in the picture, accessed on October 21, 2018
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Fredrich: Milestones from Halle via Merseburg to Weißenfels - a location study , in: Das Meilenstein-Journal 34 (2014) 67, pp. 31–37, here p. 34.
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. ↑ Olaf Grell: Considerations on the system and the labeling of the milestones on the old road Halle – Weißenfels – Zeitz – Gera , in: Das Meilenstein-Journal, Vol. 25 (2005), 49, pp. 12-16.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '24.2 "  N , 11 ° 59' 31.3"  E