The Royal Roads will bring to life one of Saxony’s important cultural gems.
The Postwege - The Royal Roads of Saxony is a cycling and driving network of the 1700s royal Saxon roadways. The routes and locations are calculated using the 300 year old maps by the cartographer Adam Friedrich Zürner as well as an algorithm based on castle and historical landmark data. The hubs are placed where the historic royal postal monuments are located throughout modern day Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg
The rise of industrialization led to the development of an infrastructure of roads, highways, train tracks and (luckily for us) bicycling paths. The new network either replaced or covered up the old one. Our initiative is to bring the old travel network back to the surface so that people can feel how pre-industrial Saxons traveled and were connected with each other. It is a fun and inspiring way to experience both a glorious past and gain a better understanding of where we are now and are heading to in the future.
Postwege - The Royal Roads of Saxony was developed by Robert Reimann, an American that has lived in Saxony since 2009 and his Dresden-born wife Anna. Robert - an avid cyclist - studied the postal monuments, plotted the locations of castles and historic landmarks from the time of the Saxon kingdom and used the original maps from the 1700s to reconstruct the network onto today’s cycling and driving infrastructure. Robert and Anna live along a royal road in Pirna, a picturesque town outside of Dresden on the Elbe river.
The Postwege - The Royal Roads of Saxony is a cycling and driving network of the 1700s royal Saxon roadways. The routes and locations are calculated using the 300 year old maps by the cartographer Adam Friedrich Zürner as well as an algorithm based on castle and historical landmark data. The hubs are placed where the historic royal postal monuments are located throughout modern day Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg
The Royal Roads will bring to life one of Saxony’s important cultural gems.
The rise of industrialization led to the development of an infrastructure of roads, highways, train tracks and (luckily for us) bicycling paths. The new network either replaced or covered up the old one. Our initiative is to bring the old travel network back to the surface so that people can feel how pre-industrial Saxons traveled and were connected with each other. It is a fun and inspiring way to experience both a glorious past and gain a better understanding of where we are now and are heading to in the future.
Postwege - The Royal Roads of Saxony was developed by Robert Reimann, an American that has lived in Saxony since 2009 and his Dresden-born wife Anna. Robert - an avid cyclist - studied the postal monuments, plotted the locations of castles and historic landmarks from the time of the Saxon kingdom and used the original maps from the 1700s to reconstruct the network onto today’s cycling and driving infrastructure. Robert and Anna live along a royal road in Pirna, a picturesque town outside of Dresden on the Elbe river.
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