Post road

The post- course ( also: Post Street, PO line, postal route ) denotes a Altstrasse, which was mainly used by post riders and later stage coach for the carriage of postal items.

Post courses

From Innsbruck to Mechelen

The 1490 furnished Dutch postal course from the Netherlands to Innsbruck and Italy led by the later Rheinhessen, first along the Rhine and before the year 1500 across the Rhine Hessian hills. As early post places Rheinhausen Flonheim ( 1506), Bobenheim at Worms ( 1540), Hangen- Weisheim ( 1561) and Wöllstein (1563 ) are compared by Speyer ( 1495, 1499 and 1506), called. At the post stations riding horses were kept ready for the post riders and Post travelers, later, after the introduction of the stagecoach for the postilions of the stagecoach to display their mail to the recipient, or a colleague the broadcasts could bring to the next transfer point without much rest. After the Postal Convention of 1516, the transport time was only five days for a letter from Brussels to Innsbruck by Estafette.

Also in Bingen ( 1664) and Mainz ( 1616) were set up post stations on other routes operated by the taxis, later Thurn und Taxis Imperial Imperial post.

From Antwerp to Venice

This postal route is identical to the Dutch postal route that connected the Netherlands with Italy up on the extensions to Antwerp and Venice. A list of the early post- stations of Brussels to Trento see list of postal stations of the Dutch postal course. From Trento, the price went from Venice to the information on the younger Augsburg miles slice of Kaspar Augustin from the year 1629 El Barga ( = Borgo ), Elgrimm ( = Grigno? ) Caperne ( = Crespano? ), Bassano, Castelfranco, villagers ( = Treviso? ), Mestre and Marghera before reaching Venice.

From Leipzig Johann George City to Carlsbad

Johann George Town was included in the post road system of the Electorate of Saxony. At this time, the distance column from 1728 reminiscent of the post office in the new town, the whole mile column No. 56 compared to the Powder Tower and the quarter milestone No. 55 in the village of Steinbach, both of which date from 1725. Further, in the vicinity of the city several royal Saxon milestones that have been set up in the years from 1858, such as the old postal route from Auerbach / Vogtl. about Carl field and Wildenthal by Johann George Town.

From Bremen to Hamburg

The Royal Swedish Government issued on 5 July 1665 approval for a regular driving postal service between Bremen and Hamburg Osterholz- Beck and Bremervörde. Another post line was to Cuxhaven on Burt, Easter wood, Hagen, Lehe, over the Wursten about Dorum.

From Berlin to Hamburg

The "Old Hamburg post road " of Berlin ( Oranienburger Tor ) to Hamburg ( Prussian post house ), which was in 1654 created at the behest of Elector Frederick William on the old pilgrimage route from Berlin to the " miracle blood Wilsnak " ran from Berlin, via Hennigsdorf, Bötzow about the shopkeeper, Flatow, Linum, Fehrbellin, Wusterhausen / Dosse, Kyritz, pearl mountain, Nebelin, Lenzen to Hamburg. From September 1656 to the wrong propelled mail between Berlin and Hamburg. Throughout this post road of 38 miles from Berlin to Hamburg run on Prussian region 23 miles. In Lenzen is on the market in 2004 and restored to the original location again established milestone with the position of " 22 miles to Berlin." Since united in Lenzen the postal route from Berlin to Hamburg with the postal route from Magdeburg, marked this milestone at the same time " 18 miles to Magdeburg " position. The course of the "Old Post Road hamburger " on Prussian territory is identical in almost any section of today important transport links. This route was finally abandoned in 1830 after the " Neue Hamburger Chaussee ", today's B was 5, completed.

From Stuttgart to Bad Urach

Since 1598 the postal route Stuttgart entertained - Bad Urach in Neckartailfingen a post station.

List of postal rates

In the 18th and especially the 19th century - before the development of the railway network and of the automotive industry - carried the mail in Central Europe not only letters ( and similar programs), but also persons, travelers. The distances of the Post were called postal route or post Cours. In the " directories of the Post Course" - comparable to a schedule or timetable - the departure times, trip duration, the breakpoints, the distances and the prices are published.

The "Berliner calendar on the leap year in 1836 ", edited by the Royal Prussian calendar deputation, the example of a post course directory is removed.

1 On the first page of general information has been under the heading "List of Post Course, as they exist in 1835 Julius ' made:

" In the following directories sämmtlichen Course of driving, riding and quick items are included. - It is found in front of each Post- Course the date of disposal of the items. The arrival in the endpoints of the courses is also given. The prices of the places on the diligences and express posts are not consistently immediately after the establishment of the various internal car, the indeß for each person to be paid postal money usually is not more than 7 ½ to 10 Sgr. for every mile, for which 10 to 30 pounds travel Effecten can be taken freely. The one every traveler in payment of the persons money printed to ertheilende Quitung here on contains times each individual provisions. On all three and four-horse driving ordinairen items are only 6 Sgr. for the person, within a mile, including post-coach tip, paid. Every traveler on the ordinairen Post, however, has only the power in small travel needs 10 pounds of stuff, not counting the mantle to take freely with them, for which no warranty is given, and thus remain the only under the supervision of the traveler. - Letters and packages need at least 1 hour before Abgange the post, and if the post of the morning depart in the evening previously abandoned. - The arrival of the items is set in the usual way thereof; at the drive - items can be found on every mile on the right track 1 ½, in bad and in winter, probably heading to 2 hours if namely, the distance of the place is great; when riding and quick post, however you can, with the inclusion of the expedition time and other stay, 3/4 to take more than 1 hour on every mile. - With the equestrian items only letters be sent to the weight of 2 ounces, but are letters from two or more sheets and side dishes to go away, then this must be to the address with the coset leader: the Riding - mail, Being noticed, and is then a higher postage than for the traveling post paid. "

2 From the second page of the individual routes are under the heading " The Prussian express mail, mail coaches and driving post -course and standing in immediate connection with the same foreign postal Course. " Section.

The list includes 87 pages with a total of 472 routes.

As an example, the first line, the listed " first Cours ":

No. 1 From Aachen to Cologne

A) Quick Post: goes from day 6 U. early and 7 1/2 U. Ab until Jülich 3 1/ 2 sts, Bergheim 2 3/4 M., Cologne 3 m (9 1/4 M. ) comes to daily 2 U. This afternoon and 3 ½ U. Fr.; back from Cologne daily 6 ½ U. Fr. and 8 U. Ab, in Aachen daily 2 ½ U. This afternoon and 4 ½ U. Fr.; People money pr. Mile 10 Sgr., 30 lb. luggage free.

B ) driving post: goes from Mont, Wed, Sonnab. 8 U. Ab, comes to service, can yell, Sunning, 8 U. fr. .. .; back from Cologne Mont, Wed, Freit. 5 U. Ab, in Aachen service. , Can yell. , Sonnab. 6 U. Fr.; People money pr. M. 8 ½ Sgr.

C ) Riding Post: from Aachen to Cologne no mail. From Cologne daily 2 ½ U. This afternoon, about Bergheim, etc., which. Aachen 11 & nbspU Ab arrives.

3 At the end of the directory is entered: " Revidirt and corrected at the Cours Bureau of the Royal. General Post- Office, in July 1835 "