The Old and New Dresden to Teplitz Post Roads () are passes over the Ore Mountains and form part of the well-known ancient road system known as the

Kulmer Steig The Kulmer Steig () is a synonym for the transport links from the Elbe, Elbe valley over the eastern part of the Eastern Ore Mountains to Bohemian Chlumec u Chabařovic (German: ''Kulm''), hence the name which means "Kulm Trail". It is an ancient ...

, which ran from the

Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

Valley near

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

over the

Eastern Ore Mountains The Eastern Ore Mountains () form a natural region of Saxony that covers the eastern part (in area almost the eastern half) of the Saxon Ore Mountains range. Together with the Western and Central Ore Mountains, it is part of the larger Saxon Hi ...

to Teplitz (now

Teplice Teplice (, until 1948 Teplice-Šanov; , ''Teplitz-Schönau'') is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 51,000 inhabitants. It is the most populous Czech spa town, followed by Karlovy Vary. The historic city cen ...

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; ; ) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. In a narrow, geographic sense, it roughly encompasses the territories of present-day Czechia that fall within the Elbe River's drainage basin, but historic ...

. Today the Saxon section of the Old Dresden to Teplitz Post Road is the best preserved of these historic transport links, complete with old Electorate of Saxony postal milestones.

Sources

* Jörg Brückner/Balder Preuß: ''Zur Fortsetzung der Alten Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße jenseits der kursächsischen Landesgrenze.'' – In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter (1995), H. 5, S. 6–11. * Jörg Brückner/Balder Preuß: ''Die Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße. Zum Verlauf des südl. Teiles; dargest. an den Ergebnissen der Vermessungsfahrt von Adam Friedrich Zürner im August 1716 durch Nordböhmen.'' – In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 42 (1996), H. 5, S. 308–311. * Siegfried Lange: ''Eine Fahrt über die Alte Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße.'' in: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Heft 6/1971. S. 278–281. * Christian Preiß: ''Die Alte Teplitzer Poststraße. Vom vorgeschichtlichen Steig zur Autobahn des 21. Jahrhunderts.'' Pirna 2004 (Eigenverlag) * Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (Hrsg.): ''Entlang der Alten Dresden-Teplitzer Poststraße von Dohna zur Landesgrenze.'' Exkursionsführer des Verkehrsmuseums Nr. 3. Dresden 1998. (Faltblatt)

References

External links

''Historische Post Roads'' project
Medieval roads and tracks Elbe Sandstone Mountains Transport in the Ore Mountains Bohemia History of the Ore Mountains Transport in Dresden Transport in Saxon Switzerland Historic trails and roads in Germany Long stubs with short prose {{Germany-transport-stub