Via Imperii
Via Imperii means Reichsstrasse ( " the road that comes from the kingdom ").
It is one of the most famous ancient trade routes and proceeded in a south-north direction from
- Venice / Italy
- Verona
- Trent
- Bolzano
- Brixen
- Sterzing
- Brenner Pass
- Matrei
- Innsbruck
- Seefeld in Tirol
- Mittenwald
- Partenkirchen
- Oberammergau
- Schongau
- Landsberg am Lech
- Augsburg
- Donauwörth
- White castle
- Schwabach
- Nuremberg
- Graefenberg
- Pottenstein
- Bayreuth
- Berneck
- Gefrees
- Munchberg
- Court
- Plauen
- Mylau
- Reichenbach
- Zwickau
- Altenburg
- Regis
- Borna
- Markham
- Connewitz
- Leipzig
- Wittenberg
- Coelln / Berlin
- Bernau
To the Hanseatic cities at the Baltic Sea and Szczecin (possibly continued to Danzig or Königsberg ). Today Leipzig - At your intersection with Via Regia "the place at the Linden " was born. Until Augsburg it corresponds to the Roman road Via Raetia.
Like all major roads of the kingdom, the Via Imperii had a high economic importance, was privileged by road coercion ( use of prescribed roads), well constructed and occupied with duties. 1430 were about 90 percent of long-distance trade traffic between Augsburg and Venice - 6500 freight cars per year - also handled by the " lower road " called route. As on the Via Regia took place pilgrimages, including from Altenburg.
The same cities are now connected in Italy from Verona by the state road 12, in Austria by Brennerstraße and Seefeld road over the Seefeld saddle and in Germany by the Federal Highway 2 (except for the stretch between Oberau and Augsburg corresponds to the B 23 and B 17 and the route from farm to Leipzig the course of the B 173 and B 93 ).