Since the 1st of July, 2005, there is an exact replica of the Saxon post distance milestone from 1727 at the Postplatz square. In earlier years, the stagecoach travelers drove on bumpy roads through Saxony. Cartography, land surveying and road construction were still in their infancy. But the improvement of Saxon factories and mines called for new transport routes.

Saxony needed a new infrastructure, which was the beginning of the first road surveying. It served as the basis for the system of the Saxon post milestones. As part of a command by the Kurfürst on November 1st, 1721, along with a corresponding ordinance, the Town of Eibenstock had to finance and set up a post distance milestone.