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Electoral Saxon post-mile column, Frauenstein

Electoral Saxon post-mile column, Frauenstein

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Electoral Saxon post-mile column, Frauenstein

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Location: Frauenstein, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

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☀️🔵⚪️🔵⚜️Ralph2011⚜️🔵⚪️🔵☀️

June 6, 2022

In Saxony, the Saxon postal mile posts are listed as a whole, which also includes true-to-the-original replicas and remnants of these technical monuments.

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Torsten

January 6, 2023

"A Saxon post mile column, colloquially also called a Saxon post mile column or just a post pillar, is a milestone that indicates distances and walking times down to an eighth of an hour. The design of the stones varies depending on the distance" - de.wikipedia.org wiki/course%C3%A4chsische_Postmeilens%C3%A4ule#Distanzs%C3%A4ule
This is a distance column in the center of the village. All around you can read the stations of the postal routes in all different directions.
If you consider that 1 post hour = 4.531 km, these logistical efforts deserve a lot of respect at the time.

Just a few meters away is another testimony to the history of surveying, a royal Saxon station stone. A part of the successor system to the Electoral Saxon Columns.
"In the Kingdom of Saxony, the preparations for the introduction of the metric system were carried out in connection with the work of the normal aichungscommission and the related leading work by Albert Christian Weinlig and Julius Ambrosius Hülsse. [...] After a new measurement in 1858, a new one was made between 1859 and 1865 System of milestones - the royal Saxon milestones in the form of station, whole mile, half mile, junction and border crossing stones - created (from 1840: 1 mile = 7.5 km)." - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/course%C3%A4chsische_Postmeilens%C3%A4ule#Nachfolger

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Matze

December 15, 2022

Very nice and well-kept market. 👍
Such postal columns can be found in various places - more or less well restored. This one looks very neat. memories of the old days.

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