A Saxon post mile column, colloquially known as a Saxon post mile column or just a post column, is a milestone that indicates distances and walking times down to an eighth of an hour. The design of the stones varies according to the distance they represent, they can be in the form of an obelisk, an ancient herm or a stele. The model was Roman miles columns, from which the inaccurate designation as a column was derived. The Saxon chief postal director Paul Vermehren arranged for it to be set up based on official distance measurements, the results of which are listed in hours on the post mileage columns made of hewn natural stone.

During the reign of Augustus the Strong and his successor, the Electoral Saxon postal miles columns were erected on all important postal and trade routes and in almost all cities in the Electorate of Saxony to indicate the official distances. This should provide the basis for a uniform calculation of postal rates. Since the Electorate of Saxony was then much larger than today's federal state of Saxony, such columns can also be found in Thuringia, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Poland.
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