Milestone (Rehsen)

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Anhalt milestone at Rehsen

The milestone near Rehsen is a small monument in the town of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is registered in the monument register with registration number 094 40708 as a monument .

location

Between Rehsen and Seegrehna , the milestone is located on state road 131 opposite a field path junction about halfway between the town of Rehsen and the junction of state road 129 towards Selbitz . Historically, this route connected Dessau with the Anhalt border near Rehsen. The previous stone in the row ( II miles from Dessau ) has also been preserved.

Shape and inscriptions

It is a typical Anhalt round base stone that stands on the south side of the street and bears two inscriptions. The older inscription reads III miles from Dessau . The Anhalt milestones were set up shortly after 1850 along the most important roads, with no distinction being made between highways and fiscal roads , as in the course of Saxony . Nevertheless, the Anhalt based on the Prussian mile , so initially corresponded to 7.532 kilometers.

When the land was re-measured in 1871, the stones were re-set and spaced at a distance of one mile equivalent to 7,500 kilometers. This also explains the second inscription, which reads 22.5 KM . The milestone was therefore reused as a kilometer stone and left in its location. Presumably to avoid confusion, this inscription was put on the same side as the miles. The almost 90 centimeter high milestone - similar to the one at Porst or the one in Kleinpaschleben - is a relic of several systems of spacer stones .

literature

  • Walter Gollmer: Old milestones. In: Zerbster Heimatkalender 1987, pp. 51–55.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones? In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde 4 (1995), pp. 42–77.
  • Walter Gollmer: Anhalt milestones in the photo (part 3 and conclusion). In: Arbeitsmaterial 15 (1995) 29, pp. 28-35.
  • Hans Hummel: Anhaltinische, kursächsische and Prussische Chausseebauten between 1764 and 1806 , in: Die Straße 27 (1987) 7, S. 216-220.

Web links

Commons : Milestone Rehsen (L 131)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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, Anhaltische Milestones ?, p. 64.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, pp. 52-53.
  4. ^ Gollmer, Anhaltische Meilensteine ​​im Foto, p. 29.

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 31.2 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 51.4"  E