zürner, who had been tasked by augustus the strong on 14 december 1721, worked out himself the details of which mileposts were to be erected. zürner set forth that a large distance column ("distanzsäule") was to be erected immediately in front of the gates of a town. similarly there were to be quarter-mile, half-mile and whole-mile stones at the corresponding intervals. in the saxon part of the county of henneberg cast iron posts were erected instead of the usual stone columns, and in the county of mansfeld there were no mileposts at all.