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?
No, I don't think so - I wouldn't know where, there was a war in between, and Fritz didn't invest much in roads anyway, focused more on waterways. FW had the main southern route ("Königsweg") built in 1730 and there weren't many changes after that, until FWII invested in the "Berlin-Potsdamer-Chaussee", which was built between 1788 and 1795. Since Arnim wrote the anecdotes in 1814, I believe that's probably the main change he's referring to as a comparison - the middle part was the same as before, just way better, but I guess it shortened the leg between Potsdam and Zehlendorf, so you probably end up with closer to three miles one-way, where it was closer to four miles before.
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Re: "Anekdoten, die wir erlebten und hörten"
Date: 2021-07-25 03:23 pm (UTC)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"
Date: 2021-07-25 05:36 pm (UTC)