Sugar Street
The Zuckerstrasse is a trade route used in Europe in the 18th century , which led from Halle (Westphalia) in the Rhine region to Silesia . Individual remains of the street can be found as ground monuments . However, it is probably in the route of medieval long-distance trade routes. The settlement remains and artefacts found during mining work in Lausitz are now to be secured in the long term and thus preserved for later research.
overview
The name of the trade route describes the main goods transported on European roads: sugar . Even coffee and colonial goods were traded. The covered wagons covered with white tarpaulin were popularly called white elephants . According to the knowledge of historians, an approximately 130-meter-wide trade route ran through Lausitz, on which numerous wagon tracks can be identified. In the 2010s there is an opportunity to examine and map some remains archaeologically , because here the mining operator , Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG / Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG), is contractually obliged to secure ground monuments when mining lignite deposits . In January 2018, the Monument Authority of the Lusatia Region and the mining group signed a contract for financing in an undisclosed amount, which enables archaeological teams to carry out excavations for the Welzow-Süd opencast mine in advance of the excavation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Securing the "Zuckerstrasse" under the brown coal ; in: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2018, p. 15.
- ↑ White elephants on Zuckerstrasse - excavations in Lusatia . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , February 26, 2018, accessed on March 1, 2018.