Broad pine

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Illustration in Contributions to the Knowledge of the Black Pine (Pinus austriaca Höss.) , 1881

The Breite Föhre was a 450 year old black pine on the Anninger mountain in the Vienna Woods near Mödling .

history

The tree stood on the Anninger mountain "on Anningerstraße, at 379 m above sea level at the junction of the path to Richardhof". Adolf Schmidl mentions it in his hiking guide Wien's Umgebung in 1839 for twenty hours in a circle as an imposing tree and a popular hiking destination. However, it was already damaged at the time. Quote: "At her foot, probably charred deep into the marrow through courage, she spreads her arms wide [...]" Arthur von Seckendorff-Gudent provides a precise description in 1881 in Contributions to the Knowledge of the Black Pine (Pinus austriaca Höss.) :

“As far as shape is concerned, the broad pine is probably one of the strangest black pine. The top is 11 m., The crown begins at 5 m., The greatest width of the crown is 19 m., The smallest 16 m. The shaft is badly damaged up to a height of 2.5 m and has the same in Result of this damage at a height of 1.3 m. On one side only 50 cm., On the other only 25 cm. Wood thickness. The diameter of the tree is 1.1 m. [...] "

Memorial stone with plaque

The landmark is said to have been visited by many well-known artists, such as Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Hugo Wolf , Arnold Schönberg , Anton von Webern , Moritz von Schwind , Ferdinand Waldmüller , Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele and Franz Grillparzer . The German painter, etcher and lithographer Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld made the painting The wide pine next to the Brühl near Mödling in 1838 , which is now in the Belvedere .

The tree died in 1988 and was finally removed in 1997 as a security risk. The trunk, however, has been preserved and has been exhibited in the Lower Austria Museum since November 2002 . Investigations on a tree disc that the Museum Mödling had received showed that the tree must have started to grow in 1542 and thus reached an age of around 450 years. Previously, up to 700 years had been assumed. At the former location there has been a memorial stone for the municipality of Mödling since 2000 next to the remaining stump. A wayside cross that can be seen in old photographs has been in its old place since 2004. In the immediate vicinity is the natural monument Neue Breite Föhre with an estimated age of 200 years and a little further down on Anningerstraße the Kleine Breite Föhre , which is likely to be of a similar age.

  • The painting by Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld

  • The trunk in the Lower Austria Museum

  • The wayside cross (photo from 2005)

Web links

Commons : Breite Föhre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Die broad Föhre on anninger.heimat.eu. Accessed November 1, 2016
  2. ^ Adolf Schmiedl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Volume 3. Vienna: Carl Gerold, 1839 p. 303
  3. ↑ Dr. Arthur Freih. v. Seckendorff: Contributions to the knowledge of the black pine (Pinus austriaca Höss.) In: Mittheilungen from the forestry experimental system of Austria. Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1881, p. 40, PDF on ZOBODAT
  4. ↑ a b anninger.heimat.eu: The broad pine accessed on November 1, 2016
  5. ^ The width of the Föhre next to the Brühl near Mödling (1838) in memory of the country. Accessed November 1, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 19.8 ″  E