In the 18th century, the first comprehensive European traffic control system based on Roman models was created in the Electorate of Saxony on what were then national transport routes: the …

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nice photo motif on the market, a few benches invite you to rest

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The listed Saxon distance marker in Oberwiesenthal is one of the post mile markers erected in the Electorate of Saxony in the first half of the 18th century by the land and border commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner, commissioned by Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, known as Augustus the Strong. It stands in the market square of the spa town of Oberwiesenthal in the Ore Mountains district of the Free State of Saxony.

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Location: Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany

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