 Elbe sandstone from several quarries in Saxon Switzerland and the area of the Tharandt Forest was used for most of the stones.Other frequently used materials were Rochlitz porphyry in Central Saxony and Lusatian granite in eastern Saxony.In the Chemnitz area, Hilbersdorf porphyritic tuff quarried at Hilbersdorf and Flöha was used as a milepost material In the upper Ore Mountains and the Vogtland mileposts were made of local granite, for example, Wiesenbad Granite, granite of the Greifensteine area, Schwarzenberg Granite, Kirchberg Granite or Bad Brambach Granite of the "Fichtelgebirge type".