Overview
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What the sources say
Miliarium is a stele recorded in Vöcklamarkt, Austria. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q37789785, mapped at 48.0025° N, 13.4845° E.
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About Miliarium
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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Many of the "steles" the Atlas lists in the Czech Republic and Austria are wayside monuments, such as stone shrines, chapels and crosses beside paths and roads, and not ancient steles at all. A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or path, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often on an empty stretch of country road or at the top of a hill. A wayside cross is a cross by a footpath, track or road, at an intersection, along the edge of a field or in a forest, and may be of wood, stone or metal. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Wayside crosses and shrines of Central Europe”.
DatingSources for this section
Sources for this section
The Atlas holds an age range of 201 CE for this site, but the record does not state how it was obtained, so treat it as indicative only.
Published age claims for this site include 201 CE (wikidata inception). The mainstream range is 201 CE.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue holds no other site within 10 km, so this one stands alone in its surroundings. The nearest is Grabhügel südlich von Speck, 15.8 km to the south-west. It is one of 1 stele records among the 1 sites catalogued in Vöcklamarkt, Austria.
Nearest to it are Grabhügel südlich von Speck (15.8 km south-west, megalithic mound); Hügelgräbergruppe Heitzing-Reith (32.5 km north-west, megalithic mound); Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0035 in Bad Füssing (38.3 km north, megalithic mound); Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0028 in Bad Füssing (38.7 km north-west, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Heritage records attach the status Listed objects in Austria to this site. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q37789785), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Wayside crosses and shrines of Central Europe”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Wayside crosses and shrines of Central Europe
Many of the "steles" the Atlas lists in the Czech Republic and Austria are wayside monuments, such as stone shrines, chapels and crosses beside paths and roads, and not ancient steles at all. A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or path, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often on an empty stretch of country road or at the top of a hill. A wayside cross is a cross by a footpath, track or road, at an intersection, along the edge of a field or in a forest, and may be of wood, stone or metal.
Wayside shrines were often erected to honour the memory of the victim of an accident, which explains why they are so common near roads and paths. In Carinthia, for example, they often stand at crossroads. Some stone crosses may also be conciliation crosses. Often they serve as waymarks for walkers and pilgrims or mark dangerous places. In Britain most wayside crosses were set up in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and about 1,900 remain.
The Atlas's Czech records are mostly small stone chapels and crosses of this kind, and they are dated by inscription and style, not by any prehistoric find.
When visiting, look for the date and any inscription on the shrine, and note why it stands where it does.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Wayside cross, Wikipedia: Wayside shrine, Wikipedia: Stele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photographs
1 photograph, each with its author and licence
Where it stands
Austria
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 48°00′09″ N, 13°29′04″ EFor a GPS or map app: 48.00251, 13.48453
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Grabhügel südlich von Speck
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Hügelgräbergruppe Heitzing-Reith
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0035 in Bad Füssing3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0028 in Bad Füssing3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0069 in Bad Füssing3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0138 in Malching3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0139 in Malching3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0090 in Kirchham (Landkreis Passau)3500–500 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
1 source behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q37789785wikidata.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Grabhügel südlich von Speck16 km SW
- Hügelgräbergruppe Heitzing-Reith32 km NW
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0035 in Bad Füssing38 km N
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0028 in Bad Füssing39 km NW
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0069 in Bad Füssing39 km N
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0138 in Malching39 km NW
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0139 in Malching40 km NW
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0090 in Kirchham (Landkreis Passau)41 km N
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0053 in Bad Füssing41 km N
- Cultural heritage D-2-7645-0113 in Malching41 km NW
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
- Wikidata Q37789785CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0