Baille-Maille-Lindenallee
The Baille-Maille-Lindenallee is an avenue lined with linden trees in the Upper Franconian municipality of Himmelkron in the district of Kulmbach .
history
The first avenue of lime trees was laid out from 1662 to 1663 during the reign of Margrave Christian Ernst . The avenue was part of the change measures to turn the former Himmelkron monastery into a hunting lodge for the margraves. They played paille-maille , a piston or running game. There were similar avenues at many castles at that time. The avenue in Himmelkron was famous in its time and was called the longest and most beautiful in Europe. The pastor and chronicler Johann Ernst Teichmann reported from the avenue in 1739. Margravine Wilhelmine mentioned them in her memoir. In 1792 the avenue was cut down by Prussian soldiers against the resistance of the population in order to rehabilitate the state budget.
On October 17, 1986, 160 trees were planted again. On April 28, 1992, District President Dr. Erich Haniel the last linden tree to commemorate the deforestation 200 years ago. In 2016, the Allee was the branch of the Bayreuth State Horticultural Show .
literature
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Kulmbach . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, III. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1958. p. 59.
- Wilhelm Stadelmann: The Himmelkroner Allee . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 6th volume 3rd issue. Bayreuth 1856. pp. 72-76.
- Dietmar Herrmann: The Baille-Maille-Allee in Himmelkron; in: Der Siebenstern 2-2016, pp. 16-17