Edignalinde

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The Edignalinde
Drawing of the Edignalinde from 1883

The Edignalinde (also called thousand-year-old linden) is a summer linden ( Tilia platyphyllos ) in the cemetery next to the St. Sebastian church in Puch , a district of Fürstenfeldbruck . According to various estimates, it is 500 to 1200 years old and has been designated a natural monument . The name comes from Edigna , according to legend, the daughter of the King of France , who sought refuge here in the 11th century on the run from a planned marriage. She allegedly lived as a hermit inside the hollow tree for 35 years. There are numerous illustrations of the linden tree as far back as the 17th century, with Edigna usually shown sitting high above her in the sky or sitting in the hollow trunk.

Location

Puch is three kilometers northwest of Fürstenfeldbruck and about 25 kilometers west of Munich . The linden tree stands in the center of the village at about 550 meters above sea ​​level next to the Saint Sebastian church. To the north of Puch, the federal road 2 leads past the village, to the south, the state road 2054 to Landsberg am Lech .

description

North elevation

Only a part of the trunk of the original linden tree remains, the former main crown, formed by several main branches, no longer exists. The trunk has disintegrated so that its former size can no longer be recognized. After part of the trunk was felled in 1947, the cavity in which Edigna supposedly lived is also missing; inner trunk parts became the outer layer. The remaining trunk is heavily furrowed and shows clear age scars. The linden tree is covered with tubers, bumps and growths up to a height of several meters. Despite the old age, young shoots emerged from the remaining trunk, which today form branches that are up to 20 meters high and leafy in summer. This secondary crown has a diameter of 17 meters. Next to the linden tree, in a little house, similar to a chapel, there is a painted wooden figure of Blessed Edigna. The linden tree has enclosed part of this chapel so that both appear to have grown together.

Trunk circumference

The remnant trunk of the linden tree is difficult to measure due to the ingrown chapel. In 2005 it was approximately 10.5 meters in circumference. In 1990, Hans Joachim Fröhlich , initiator of the “Kuratorium Old lovable trees in Germany” stated a trunk circumference of nine meters, measured at a height of 1.3 meters. According to the German Tree Archives , for which the trunk circumference at a height of one meter is the most important selection criterion, the linden tree with these dimensions is above the lower limit of nationally important trees (NBB). A drawing of the linden tree from 1883 shows that the trunk was much thicker at the time, although it was already half disintegrated.

Age

Since the oldest wood from the center of the trunk is missing, neither annual ring counting nor radiocarbon dating is possible. The actual age of the linden tree can therefore only be roughly estimated. A representative of the German Tree Archives estimated their age at 500 to 700 years in 2008; several times, however, an age of around 1000 or 1200 years has been assumed. That would make it one of the ten oldest linden trees in Germany.

Surroundings

West view

An iron fence about 1.5 meters high surrounds the linden tree near the trunk, on which there is a glass container for devotional and sacrificial candles . On the south side of the linden tree there is a large wooden cross with Jesus of Nazareth , which stands on a stone wall. On a plaque attached to the chapel in 1969, which is now partially overgrown by the trunk of the linden tree, there is the following inscription:

Edigna linden
"Thousand-year-old linden"
In the hollow trunk of this linden tree (and in
the hermitage next to it) lived (1074–1109)
the blessed Edigna
daughter of Emperor Heinrich I. v. France (sic!)
Friends of Puch 1969

history

Edigna in the linden tree

According to the legend, Edigna came through Puoche , today Puch, in her ox cart while fleeing . The oxen stopped below the Puchs hill, on which there was a chapel and a linden tree back then. In addition, the rooster that she had with her should have crows and rang the bell in her luggage without human intervention. She saw it as a sign from God, settled there for 35 years and set up an apartment in the hollow trunk of the linden tree.

A church was built next to the linden tree on the foundations of an older church. According to a legend, "soon after her death a sacred oil flowed out of the linden tree, which dried up when people wanted to sell it for profit." Likewise, leaves of the linden tree, which are picked at midnight and used to clean milk dishes, are said to be a miraculous property to have. The milk allegedly makes twice as much cream as usual in the cleaned pots. The Edigna Festival has been held every ten years on Edigna's Day since 1959. Her life and work is portrayed in a play. The history of the linden tree is also included here.

Local newspaper Puch from 1861 with the linden tree at the bottom left next to the church

In June 1861, the linden tree was drawn in a fence next to the church on the first recording sheet Puch, the frame sheet of a comprehensive survey in the then Kingdom of Bavaria .

In 1866, the writer Alexander Schöppner wrote in Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande about the linden tree:

“On the square there is still a strong trunk, branching into two main branches, measuring 35½ feet in its largest circumference  [corresponds to about 10.4 meters in circumference] and about 50 to 60 feet high. A main branch of the trunk is quite hollow so that one can hide in it. "

- Alexander Schöppner : Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande: From the mouth of the people, the chronicle and the poet. 1866

The linden tree was protected by a picket fence in the 19th century as people repeatedly broke leaves and branches. A description of the linden tree from 1874 can be found in the statistical description of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising. In 1880 one of the two large main branches broke off during a storm. The remaining crown was supported with wooden beams around the turn of the century. In the illustrated magazine Die Gartenlaube from 1883 there is a picture of the linden tree with the description of the thousand-year-old linden tree in Puch near Fürstenfeld . In 1909 it was reported that the tree was supported by underpinnings. In 1947 the rotten part of the trunk was felled. The linden tree was designated as a natural monument in 1983 and is listed by the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the Fürstenfeldbruck district . In the middle of the 20th century, farmers were still giving cattle the leaves of Edignalinde to eat.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Edignalinde (Puch, Fürstenfeldbruck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anette Lenzing: Courts linden and Thing places in Germany . Langewiesche KR, Heiligenhaus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-4520-3 , p. 45 .
  2. ^ A b Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Volume 2, Bavaria . In: Paths to old trees . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-09-5 , p. 156 .
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Ullrich, Stefan Kühn, Uwe Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees: Exclusively from the German Tree Archives . BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0376-5 , p. 295 .
  4. ↑ a b c Michel Brunner: Significant linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany . Haupt Verlag AG, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07248-7 , p. 84 .
  5. ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Germany . Buchholz, Ahlering 2000, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 , pp. 22 .
  6. ↑ Michel Brunner : Significant linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany . Haupt Verlag AG, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07248-7 , p. 316 .
  7. ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Germany . Buchholz, Ahlering 2000, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 , pp. 308 .
  8. ↑ Bernd Ullrich, Stefan Kühn, Uwe Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees: Exclusively from the German Tree Archives . BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0376-5 .
  9. ↑ Ekkart Sauser:  EDIGNA von Puch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 431-432.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  10. ↑ Uwe Kühn, Stefan Kühn, Bernd Ullrich: Trees that tell stories . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-405-16767-1 , p. 112 .
  11. ↑ Manfred Amann: Edigna in honor. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 6, 2015.
  12. ↑ Alexander Schöppner: Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande: From the mouth of the people, the chronicle and the poet . tape 3 . M. Rieger, Munich 1866, Edigna von Puch, p. 218 ( Google Books ).
  13. ^ Friedrich Stützer: The largest, oldest or otherwise strange trees in Bavaria in words and pictures . tape 4 . Piloty & Loehle, Munich 1905, p. 156–157, here p. 157 ( mdz-nbn-resolving.de - Due to a manufacturing error, p. 157 does not appear in the digitized version until p. 162 and 158.).
  14. ↑ Anette Lenzing: Courts Linden and Thingplaces in Germany . Langewiesche KR, Heiligenhaus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-4520-3 , p. 47 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 15.4 ″  E

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