Milestone (piethen)

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Anhalt milestone at Piethen

The milestone at Piethen is located near the southwest of the village of Piethen in the city of Southern Anhalt in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection , but for incomprehensible reasons it is listed in the monument register as a milestone near Cattau with the number 094 14207.

The inscription on the Anhalt milestone reads I mile from Cöthen IV miles from Dessau , as has been reconstructed. This assigns the stone to one of the branches of the most important east-west connections of Anhalt, because this is oriented towards Dessau , has stone II miles from Dessau near Porst and stone IV miles from Dessau in Kleinpaschleben . The Chausseetraße, which led from Köthen to the south and southwest, each have an IV mile from Dessau -Stein, so that despite the small size of Anhalt there are several stones with the same inscription, even if it varies slightly.

Here, on the route from Köthen to the southwest, the stone is now on a less traveled route, as the main connection from Piethen via the Fuhne no longer leads via Cattau , but via Wieskau . The 77 centimeter high milestone was damaged several times by drives. In 2002 the round base stone was found split and therefore the Köthen Monument Preservation and the road maintenance department decided to protect the stone from future damage with a concrete base. The Anhalt mile corresponded to the Prussian mile and was 7.532 kilometers long.

literature

  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones in the Köthen district , in: Values ​​and treasures of the Köthen landscape. Essays on cultural heritage, monument protection and museum collection history, Köthen 1991, pp. 65–75.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones in the photo. Part 1 , in: Arbeitsmaterial 14 (1994) 27, pp. 27-35.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhaltische Milestones - A supplement , in: Arbeitsmaterial 15 (1995) 30, pp. 26-27.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhaltic milestones - road construction monuments of the 19th century , in: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt 7 (1997), pp. 32–35.
  • Olaf Grell: Brief messages , in: Das Meilenstein-Journal 22 (2002), No. 44, pp. 27–41.
  • Olaf Grell: Short messages , in: Das Meilenstein-Journal 23 (2003), No. 46, pp. 40–49.
  • 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) - 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).
  2. ↑ Gollmer, 1991, p. 73 could only read Coethen, likewise Gollmer, 1994, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.
  4. ↑ Gollmer, 1994, p. 30; Gollmer, 1995, p. 27 (each sketch of the main traffic routes).
  5. ↑ Gollmer, 1991, p. 73; Gollmer, 1994, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Grell, 2002, p. 34; Grell, 2003, p. 46.
  7. ↑ Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 14 "  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 40.4"  E