Milestone (Oranienbaum)

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Milestone at Oranienbaum

The milestone at Oranienbaum is a small monument in the town of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 40416.

location

Between Mildensee and Oranienbaum near the forester's house Kapen on federal road 107 on the north side of the road.

History and shape

Shortly after 1850, milestones were set up in Anhalt along the more important roads at regular intervals. Your count begins at the Dessau residential palace . Anhalt-Dessau had already introduced the Prussian mile as a measure of length in 1841 . Since these were full milestones, they were set up at precisely these intervals, which correspond to 7532 meters. In the early 1870s, the land was re-measured twice, the stones first set at a distance of 7,500 meters, then at a distance of 10 kilometers.

It cannot be proven with certainty whether this double implementation always took place locally. Since the stone with the inscription I / Meile / von Dessau is 7 kilometers away from the zero point today, it was apparently later used as a kilometer stone , which can also be proven for the stone near Roßlau . Like all Anhalt milestones, the gray sandstone was shaped as a round base, which was also the common milestone type in Prussia at the time.

literature

  • Walter Gollmer: Old milestones. In: Zerbster Heimatkalender 1987, pp. 51–55.
  • 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.
  • 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 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
  2. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, p. 51; Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, pp. 52-53.
  4. ↑ Gollmer, Anhaltische Meilensteine ​​?, p. 66. - Gollmer, Anhaltische Meilensteine ​​im Foto, p. 32.

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 48.2 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 20.1 ″  E