The via Publica (people road, late post office road or trade route), 839 in a diploma emperors Ludwig of the pious one one mentioned for the first time. This old route led from Brussels in Flanders across Frankfurt, peppering castle and Nuremberg to Prague in

In the Middle Ages connected it the commercial towns Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Regensburg. The stone bridge in Regensburg (1135-1146), the in Passau (1143), the Lahn bridge in Limburg (1341 completed) and the Main bridges in peppering castle (1133), Frankfurt (1222 ago) and Kitzingen (1300 ago) belong to the oldest stone bridges of Central Europe and witness of the historical importance of this freeway.

The medieval trade routes led not by the swampy and after rainfalls impassable valleys, but across the dry elevator roads. The Birkenhainer highway is one of those historical elevator ways, which are only used today as moving ways.

In the year 1615 the realm hereditary general post office master was assigned by Thurn and taxis by emperors Matthias, a short way of Brussels, over Frankfurt and Nuremberg to build to Prague. For this the via Publica was developed to the post office road.

Today the federal highway 8 is to a large extent identical to this old route.

Rule rights

Apart from the tariff, which was to be paid on such roads, there was a second important rule right - the escort right.

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