Barbarossa lime tree
The Barbarossa lime tree or Hohenstaufen lime tree was an approx. 900-year-old, according to other information approx. 600-year-old winter lime tree near Lorch Monastery in Lorch (Württemberg) , in the Ostalb district in Baden-Württemberg . It is named after the Staufer Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa , Duke of Swabia , Roman-German King and from 1155 to 1190 Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
history
On November 1, 1755, the linden tree was damaged by a heavy storm and lost a main branch. Around 100 years later, another two branches were lost in a storm.
Finally two main branches supported by heavy beams remained on the tree. The trunk, lined on the inside, was about eight meters in circumference. The linden tree was about 20 meters high.
Eduard Mörike immortalized the linden tree, which was hollow at the time, in his work during his stay in Lorch in 1867:
“Behind our backs, the children danced on the grass floor in the shade of the linden tree. When we finally looked around for them, all three of them were standing with the maid, a young sing-loving thing from Weinsberg, in the hollow interior of the huge trunk so that one could hardly see anything of them, and singing together in a clear voice:
O Lindenbaum, O linden tree,
how green are your leaves! "
On the night of January 16-17, 1955, this landmark, which was called the “last living witness of the Staufer era”, was destroyed by a storm.
Today a plaque reminds of the location of the linden tree.
literature
- Otto Mayer: Destroyed the Barbarossalinde at Lorch Abbey . In: Schwäbische Heimat (magazine of the Schwäbischer Heimatbund ), 1955, p. 58.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lieutenant Colonel z. D. v. Widenmann: Old, beautiful and interesting trees in Württemberg: Linden on Lorch Monastery near Gmünd in Blätter des Schwäbischer Albverein , No. 7, July 1894, p. 142
- ^ Georg Stütz: Homeland and hiking book for the Gmünd area , Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1919
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '58.6 " N , 9 ° 42' 17.1" E