Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris

The High Road (also army or salt road ) Latin via regia Lusatiae superioris, or strata regia, was a trading route and one of the old streets. She was part of the Via Regia, which led westward to the Rhine.

For several centuries, the road was next to the northerly trending Niederstraße the main transport route from Central Germany to Silesia and the Polish East. Like other imperial roads it was under special protection peace. The Via Regia had significance as St. James.

Course

She led by the Upper Lusatia, Halle / Saale Eilenburg or Leipzig- Grimsby after Oschatz, Big Grove, Koenigsbrueck, Kamenz, Bautzen, Lobau, Görlitz and Zittau, Lauban, Naumburg, Boleslawiec, Haynau, Legnica, Neumarkt to Wroclaw. She had sequels east to Krakow to and west of Leipzig, Halle or through Thuringia in Frankfurt am Main.

Term

The Latin name of strata regia (' royal road ') is attested in 1252, antiquarian strata (, Old Road ') in 1241, she was named in the Upper Lusatian border certificate. As a Via Regia ( King Street 'or' silver bullet ') lost the road in 1307 after the Battle of Lucka her royal function and has now been placed under the supervision of the sovereign.

The German name High Street is common only since the beginning of the 16th century. In contrast to the north running down street ( Via Regia Lusatiae inferioris ) thinks High Street, the preferred afflicted with special privileges street. Probably only in 1732 coined the Respondent at Wittenberg University and later professor at the Knight's Academy in Lüneburg Johann Friedrich Schwartz the term via regia Lusatiae superioris ( King Street Upper Lusatia ).

History

The road existed in outline in prehistoric times. From about 1200, the Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris had its first heyday through the supply of Wroclaw with Hallischem salt.

Through agreements between the Georg von Podiebrad as King of Bohemia and ruler of Silesia, the Upper Lusatian Six Towns League and the Elector of Saxony as ruler of Leipzig in 1460, the High Road assumes the character of forced road for all traffic between Poland / Silesia and Leipzig. Accordingly, all vehicle and merchants as these on their way to Queis, a left tributary of the Bober, touched ( so the Queis stir ), use the High Road. In order that the customs revenues of the adjacent principalities and cities should be backed up.

The road on the High Road was connected for travelers with significant costs for duties and conduct money or excessive accommodation expenses at inns. Therefore, they tried again and again to switch to other channels such as the low road. In addition, the Breslauer staple rights and miles privilege repeatedly led to complaints from the Saxon side. With the market and stacking rights of the city of Leipzig, the frequency increased traffic on the two streets. Especially in the 19th century attracted traders with their white elephants ( large, strung with linen cloth covered wagon ) to the west and sold furs, linen and other natural products to the major markets such as on the Brühl in Leipzig. Conversely, salt was traded to the East, for example.

In Großenhain the High Street crossed the north-south trade route that led from the Baltic Sea through the Mark Brandenburg Saxony to Bohemia (see Kulm climbing ). The safe use of the High Street within the Mark Meissen was in treaties ( 1399, 1404 ) regulated, and was bought with duties that were levied in Great grove.