🕗 Kurtrierischer Stundenstein in Oberbrechen 🕗

This is a virtual cache without a box, designed as a fast drive-in.

The old post road ran from: Koblenz - Thal-Ehrenbreitstein - Arenberg - Niederberg - Neuhäusel - Montabaur - Großholbach - Nentershausen - Görgeshausen - Elbbachbrücke - Limburg (OC14E76) - Lindenholzhausen (OC14E75) - Oberbrechen (OC14DD0) - Niederselters - Erbach - Bad Camberg - Würges (border Kurtrier - Nassau/Usingen) - Walsdorf - Königstein (Kurmainz) - Rödelheim - Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main.

This is one of 14 distance stones on the road built by Kurtrier between Koblenz and Frankfurt via Limburg. The distance stone in Oberbrechen was moved here from the Laubusbach bridge in the centre of the village. On the block pedestal there is a three-sided obelisk, which indicates XX stagecoach hours to Frankfurt (Franckfurt) and YY to Koblenz (Coblenz).

Since the long-distance route led through different areas of sovereignty, it was advantageous not to indicate the route in the different national measures of length, but in travel hours, thus avoiding complicated conversions. On the postal routes, a distinction was made between postal hours and travel hours, as the postal teams usually reached their destination more quickly. Today, only a few hour pillars/hour stones can be found in Germany. On the Kurtrierischer Stundensteine the distance to both cities was indicated in stagecoach hours. As a rule this was two miles or 15 km in three hours.

At the top it bears the name of the builder. Shown is the electoral hat of the archbishop of Trier with the initials CT, which means electorate of Trier.

Log conditions:
To log this virtual cache, you need a password. Please multiply the two stagecoach shown (XX*YY) = ZZZ. The year YYYY is written on the stone. The password is ZZZhYYYY, for example 142h2018

A creative photo that doesn't spoil, proving that you were at the distance stone, would be nice, but is not a log condition!