This part of the national border is alternately marked where after a post on the German side there is a post on the Czech side.
The posts are about 100 meters apart.
Source: own observation
This is a typical INdirect bordermarker, as it contains only one letter of a country. In this case the C of Cesky (Czechia). The marker is made of granite, white painted with black text. The marker appears to be refurbished.
General information about the course of the German state border:
The two neighboring European states, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czech Republic, have a common state border in the part of the border of the Free State of Saxony and the Free State of Bavaria. The Free State of Saxony borders the Czech Republic over a length of 459 km. This border, popularly known as the “Saxon-Bohemian border”, is one of the oldest borders in Europe. Since the end of the 14th century, its course has remained virtually unchanged, regardless of the respective forms of rule and governments.
The German-Czech border runs from the point of contact between the state border of the two contracting states and the state border of the Republic of Poland in the border watercourse of the Lausitzer Neiße to the point of contact with the Saxon-Bavarian state border in the “Mühlbach” and is divided into 23 border sections, whereby the jurisdiction is regulated in principle in the state treaty (border treaty). The designation of the border sections (I to XXIII) runs from east to west.
The immovable border, also known as the “dry or fixed” border, runs in straight connecting lines from one border marker to the next or in the center line of border roads, border paths or border ditches resulting from the border deed. For a partial length of approx. 186 km, the state border is formed by the center line of the border watercourses or their main branches and is movable; the so-called “wet” border. The border watercourse Elbe is an exception. There, the state border is determined by the centerline of the fairway, the deepest part of the riverbed used for navigation.
Marking of the state border:
The marking of the state border by boundary markers is divided according to the character of the state border into direct marking and indirect marking.
In the case of direct marking, the boundary markers are placed exactly on the boundary line. On the side facing the respective state, they bear the national emblems (initials) “D” (German side) and “C” (Czech side) as well as directional signs and a cross on the top surface.
The state border is marked indirectly in places where the border signs cannot be marked on the border line (e.g. in border watercourses, along border roads and border paths). These border signs bear only the national emblem of the state on whose territory they are located, namely on the side facing the border line and only the cross on the top surface.
The following types of boundary markers are used to mark the state border:
Section boundary signs are placed at the beginning of each border section and are labeled with the Roman numeral of the border section. At the same time, the section boundary marker is always also the first main boundary marker of the newly beginning boundary section, marked by the Arabic number 1 under the Roman section number. Both numbers are separated by a horizontal fraction bar.
Main demarcation marks indicate subsections within a boundary section with an Arabic numeral.
Intermediate border signs mark the course of the national border at visual intervals between neighboring main border signs. Intermediate demarcation marks are written in fractions: the numerator is the number of the last main demarcation mark and the denominator is a consecutive number of the intermediate demarcation mark, starting with 1.
Supplementary boundary markers are used if a supplementary marking is required between existing boundary markers, e.g. if the visual relationship between two consecutive boundary markers is disturbed by interventions in the terrain (e.g. landfill backfill). Supplementary boundary markers, provided they are included in the consecutive numbering, bear the inscription of the preceding boundary marker and a consecutive number, starting with 1, set off by a minus sign.
The following types of boundary markers are commonly used:
Boundary stones (mostly made of granite, sometimes also sandstone),
pins (made of brass on roadways, asphalt pavement),
rock boundary markers (black lettering on a white surface, on the rock or on structures, e.g. boundary bridges),
ground-level slab (made of granite, as ground-level marking on footpaths or roadways)
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