Annalinde
| St. Anna-Linde | |||
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| place | Heilbronn | ||
| country | Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | ||
| Tree species | Winter linden | ||
| Geographical location | 49 ° 10 '18.5 " N , 9 ° 7' 46.9" E | ||
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| Status natural monument | since April 23, 1941 | ||
| Age | about 300 years | ||
| Trunk circumference (1 m height) |
7.16 | ||
The St. Anna-Linde is a mighty, approximately 300-year-old winter linden tree on a hill between Kirchhausen , Frankenbach and Leingarten in the district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Heilbronn in Germany .
Since April 23, 1941, it has been a registered natural monument . Should at the site of Linde, according to a popular legend a once St. Anne consecrated chapel have stood.
Legend of the Anna Chapel
The chapel was founded by Juliana, wife of the knight Ralf von Kirchhausen and daughter of the knight Kuno von Stromberg. As a dowry, her father gave her a few acres of fields on the Großgartacher Markung, near the Erbelhölzles forest, a little below the Annenkreuz, in the direction of Großgartach. She donated these fields, the income from the lease was used to maintain the St. Annakapelle she donated. The tenants of the fields belonging to the chapel, resident in Großgartach , were obliged to deliver six wax candles "the thickness and height of a defensible, robust man" to the chapel annually for the festival of the church saints . They wanted to evade this burden after the Reformation . They hollowed out the candles and filled them with gunpowder . And when they were set on fire during the festive service on the name of St. Anne ( July 26th ), there was a huge explosion. The priest and many believers died under the ruins of the collapsing church.
To commemorate this crime, a memorial stone - the Anna Cross - was later erected where the chapel had stood , which was soon overgrown by a linden tree. The cross was moved to one side in 1975.
The existence of the chapel is of course not documented, and no foundation walls can be found, and such an explosion is not mentioned in any records. How the legend came about is not known. However, it is still passed down in Heilbronn-Kirchhausen .
According to a thesis advocated by the Heilbronn writer and satirist Erhard Jöst , on the other hand, the rulers invented the legend in order to discredit their serfs, and land servants set fire to a barn, which was located next to the Annalinde, at the behest of noble landlords by the Teutonic Order, with numerous peasants perished.
Web links
- Profile of the individual nature monument in the LUBW's list of protected areas
- Annalinde natural monument at heilbronn.de
- Map of Annalinde and its surroundings on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( Notes )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The St. Anna-Linde on the homepage of the city of Heilbronn , accessed on July 17, 2019
- ↑ Profile of the individual nature monument in the protected area directory of the LUBW
- ↑ Profile of the Annalinde natural monument at the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg
- ^ Eduard Paulus: The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg . Paul Neff Verlag (Max Schreiber), Esslingen 1906, p. 271 .
- ↑ Rudolf Mayer: Saint Anne Cross - The Anna Linde. In: Ortskartell Kirchhausen (publisher): 25 years of the Heilbronn-Kirchhausen district: 12th large castle festival; Kirchhausen July 4 to 6, 1997 , Heilbronn 1997, pp. 21-23.
- ↑ Erhard Jöst : Mützen am Baum: Poems and stories . Verlag Print & Media, Offenburg 2007, ISBN 3-936128-13-8 . See also Heilbronner Voice of January 13, 1996: Where the Annalinde got its name from