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- Saxon_post_milestone abstract "A Saxon post milestone (German: kursächsische Postmeilensäule, colloquially sächsische Postmeilensäule or Postsäule) was a milestone in the former Electorate of Saxony that gave distances and journey times to the nearest eight of an hour. The design of the milestones varied according to the distance at which they were placed. They were hewn out of natural stone and could take the shape of an obelisk, an ancient herma or a stele. Their prototype was the Roman milestone, in German a römische Meilensäule, from which the rather inaccurate German description of Säule (lit.: "column") was derived. The Saxon head postal director (Oberpostdirektor), Paul Vermehren, brought about their inception based on official distance surveys, whose results were given in leagues on the post mileposts. A league in Saxony at that time (1722 to 1840) was meant to be an hour's journey, equivalent to half a mile or 4.531 kilometres.Saxon post milestones were set up during the reign of August the Strong and his successor along all important postal and trading routes and in almost all towns in the Electorate of Saxony to indicate the official distances. This was intended to be the basis for the creation of a unified calculation of postal charges. Because the Electorate of Saxony was at that time larger than the present-day German state of Saxony, these milestones are also found nowadays in the states of Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, as well as in Poland.The locations and images of surviving or replaced Saxon milestones may be seen in the Gallery of Saxon post milestones.".
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- Saxon_post_milestone wikiPageExternalLink www.kursaechsische-postmeilensaeulen.de.
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- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Culture_of_Saxony.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Culture_of_Saxony-Anhalt.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Culture_of_Thuringia.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Heritage_sites_in_Germany.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Monumental_columns_in_Germany.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Polish_culture.
- Saxon_post_milestone subject Category:Surveying.
- Saxon_post_milestone comment "A Saxon post milestone (German: kursächsische Postmeilensäule, colloquially sächsische Postmeilensäule or Postsäule) was a milestone in the former Electorate of Saxony that gave distances and journey times to the nearest eight of an hour. The design of the milestones varied according to the distance at which they were placed. They were hewn out of natural stone and could take the shape of an obelisk, an ancient herma or a stele.".
- Saxon_post_milestone label "Kursächsische Postmeilensäule".
- Saxon_post_milestone label "Saxon post milestone".
- Saxon_post_milestone label "Дистанционный столб".
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- Saxon_post_milestone depiction DSGeithainUntertor081011FotoAndreKaiser.jpg.
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