Potsdam-Berlin distance: giving the rapid growth of Berlin through the 19th and then the 20th century, I bet it was the larger distance back then?
I took the growth into account and used landmarks that we know existed then: Sanssouci and the Berliner Dom. That said, I don't know what her exact start and end points were, so it could be the outskirts.
(I mean, this map is from twenty years later, but I can't imagine that the roads changed all that much in between.)
It sounds like he's saying the roads *did* change. One thing that occurs to me: given the amount of water in the area, could there have been a body of water or marshy ground that you had to go around in the 1750s and could go straight over by road in the 1770s?
Re: "Anekdoten, die wir erlebten und hörten"
I took the growth into account and used landmarks that we know existed then: Sanssouci and the Berliner Dom. That said, I don't know what her exact start and end points were, so it could be the outskirts.
(I mean, this map is from twenty years later, but I can't imagine that the roads changed all that much in between.)
It sounds like he's saying the roads *did* change. One thing that occurs to me: given the amount of water in the area, could there have been a body of water or marshy ground that you had to go around in the 1750s and could go straight over by road in the 1770s?