Maple from Trun
The maple of Trun stands next to the Caplutta Sontga Onna (Chapel of St. Anna) in the courtyard of the Gray League on the main street above the train station of Trun in the Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .
history
Under the sycamore of Trun, the Upper or Gray Bund was founded on May 16, 1424; The federal assemblies were held there every year on St. George's Day until 1778. The covenant was renewed four times. In 1750 the tree was around 16 meters in circumference. The tree aged quickly in the 19th century; the tribe had split into three tribes. In 1824 there were still two of the three tribes.
At the instigation of the cantonal forest master Johann Wilhelm Coaz , saplings were raised from seeds in 1867. On June 28, 1870, the almost 500-year-old tree was knocked over by a storm. In the same place, a young sycamore maple was planted from a seed of the old one. The root of the old tree was transferred to the Cuort meeting room in 1890. It can be viewed today in the judges' hall of the Sursilvan Museum in Trun.
In 1701 the so-called Ehrenhof des Grauen Bund was laid out, in which important personalities of the region are honored with memorial plaques. The St. Anna chapel was built in 1704 over a previous building mentioned around 1500.
Representation around 1825 by H. Gaugin
St. Anna Chapel in Trun 1836 drawn by Heinrich Zschokke , next to it the maple from Trun with two trunks
Chapel of St. Anna with the maple around 1865 in a representation by Johann Rudolf Bühlman
The stalk of the maple in the Sursilvan Museum
Web links
- Ahorn von Trun on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Poeschel: KDM GR, Volume IV, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel 1943; P. 428
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '35.6 " N , 8 ° 59' 27.1" E ; CH1903: 718615 / 178065