Milestone (Roßlau)

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Anhalt milestone near Roßlau

The milestone near Roßlau is a small monument in the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 41433.

location

North of the Elbe, east of Roßlau (Elbe) , west of Klieken at the Rotall hunting lodge on Bundesstrasse 187 , which is part of Deutsche Alleestrasse in this section .

History and shape

In Anhalt were shortly after the year 1850, the more important roads at regular intervals milestones established. Like the Prussian milestones, they were designed as round base stones. Their distances corresponded to a Prussian mile (7532 meters), since this was introduced as a length measure in 1841. The Dessau residential palace was the zero point of all the milestones in Anhalt . The stone is now 10 kilometers away from Dessau's old town, so that at times - like most of Anhalt's milestones - it was probably also used as a myriameter stone . However, inscriptions are no longer legible today, so that it cannot be decided whether it was originally set up a mile or two from the castle.

According to Gollmer, it was between the 65.2 and 65.4 milestones . It is therefore very likely that it has found another use as a kilometer stone (in position 65.3 ), since this distance does not refer to Dessau and cannot be associated with the other possible zero point Zerbst / Anhalt , but rather Rather, it should be associated with the kilometrage, which corresponds to today's federal highway and former Reichsstraße.

The 80 centimeter high granite milestone was implemented twice, probably even three times, as the two new measurements of Anhalt in the 1870s led to implementation on the new mile (7500 meters) and only then on kilometers. How far this was carried out locally before the new command followed cannot always be checked.

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. ↑ From Rheinsberg to Dessau / Lutherstadt Wittenberg , Deutsche Alleenstrasse, accessed on November 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Gollmer, 1987, p. 51; Gollmer, 1997, p. 32.
  4. ^ Gollmer, Anhalt Milestones? , P. 60; Gollmer, Anhaltische Milestones in the photo , p. 29.
  5. ↑ Hummel, p. 216.

Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 13.7 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 29.1"  E