Detailed views of Rudolstadt

The measure, which was former used in the olden Rudolstadt at marked, is hanging until today at the Old City Hall. Nethertheless today newer measurements are used.
Today not everybody looks at that detail from Rudolstadt history, which is. That ell is 56,4 cm long.
The Saalfeld Ell had another value. But the Saalfeld trades-men, who took part in Rudolstadtian trading on the market square, had to use the Rudolstadt measure too and only this.

A point of view is the carved-decorated door at former pottery marked in Rudolstadt. The carvement mainly had his home in Saalfeld, but some examples you also can find here in Rudolstadt. Only the colors are not historical.

At courts-houses you can find in some stones symbols and parts of coats of arms. The dukes of Schwarzburg - Rudolstadt wanted to show all over the world, that in the principality gold was found. The two-pronged fork, which was the help to wash the gold, became a part of coat of arms.
But the gold washing has been closed during gouvernmentstime of the dukes, because it wasn't so much to be economical.
But today tourists can watch how the gold washing works. In the near of Sitzendorf this work is be shown on the banks of Schwarza river.

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