Via Imperii
The Via Imperii was one of the most famous old long-distance trade routes ; it ran in a north-south direction from Stettin to Rome . It may even have started from Danzig or Koenigsberg .
The name means Reichsstraße (the road that comes from the Reich ).
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course
- Szczecin
- Bernau
- Cölln / Berlin
- Wittenberg
- Leipzig - crossing with the Via Regia
- Connewitz
- Markkleeberg
- Borna
- Regis
- Altenburg
- Ponitz
- Zwickau
- Reichenbach
- Mylau
- Plauen
- court
- Münchberg
- Gefrees
- Berneck
- Bayreuth
- Pottenstein
- Graefenberg
- Nuremberg
- Schwabach
- Weissenburg
- Donauwörth
- augsburg
- Landsberg am Lech
- Schongau
- Rottenbuch
- Bad Bayersoien
- Saulgrub
- Oberammergau
- Ettal
- Oberau
- Farchant
- Partenkirchen
- Mittenwald
- Seefeld in Tyrol
- innsbruck
- Matrei
- Brenner Pass
- Sterzing
- Brixen
- Bolzano
- Trento - branch through the Val Sugana to Venice
- Verona - branch to Venice
- Florence
- Rome
At its intersection with the Via Regia , the "Place bei den Linden", today's Leipzig , arose . From Rome to Oberau in southernmost Bavaria, its course corresponds to that of the Roman road Via Raetia .
The same cities are now connected in Italy from Verona by the state road 12 , in Austria by the Brennerstraße and the Seefelder Straße via the Seefelder Sattel , in Germany by the Bundesstraße 2 (exception: the route between Oberau and Augsburg corresponds to the B 23 and the B 17 and the route from Hof to Leipzig along the B 173 and B 93 ).
meaning
Like all major roads in the empire, the Via Imperii was also of great economic importance; it was privileged because it was forced to use mandatory roads, it was well developed and subject to customs duties . Around 1430, over 90 percent of the long-distance trade traffic between Augsburg and the Republic of Venice was carried out via the route known as the “lower road” with 6,500 freight wagons per year . As on the Via Regia , pilgrimages took place, including from Altenburg.
Pilgrimage
Since 2015 the “Via Imperii” Way of St. James leads from Hof via Zwickau, Leipzig and Berlin to Stettin.
See also
literature
- Christoph Kühn: The Via Imperii as a pilgrimage route In: On the way under the sign of the shell. Circular letter from the Franconian St. Jakobus Society in Würzburg , No. 52, January 2005, pp. 13-14
- Renate Florl: Via Imperii - Jakobsweg Leipzig-Hof-Nürnberg . Vier-Tuerme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7365-0042-6
Web links
- The country road map from 1501 by Erhard Etzlaub , Liechtenstein Map Collection (Houghton Library), Harvard University Library
- The Via Imperii pilgrimage route in Altenburger Land
- Brochure on closing the gap Szczecin - Berlin (PDF; 2.89 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Buschmann: 800 years of the Leipziger Messe. Commemorative publication by the Leipzig Trade Fair Office for the 1965 anniversary trade fair . Seemann, Leipzig 1965.
- ^ Martin Kluger: The Fugger in Augsburg , p. 13 ISBN 978-3-939645-63-4 . Reading sample (PDF, 1 MB)
- ↑ http://www.jakobswege-europa.de/wege/via-imperii.htm ; accessed on November 13, 2019