Oak shelf
The oak shelf was a shelf issued in 1572 with which the Princely House of Anhalt-Dessau secured the unrestricted right to use and replant oaks and beeches . It existed regardless of who owned the land. In the amended version of the state and procedural rules of Anhalt-Dessau in 1666, the unauthorized felling of so-called mast trees was punished with a fine of ten talers . The Regalie existed until 1850.
The Hudewälder , which existed in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in the 18th century, served as acorn fattening for pigs. At the beginning of the 19th century, the resulting open forests of English oak lost their economic importance, because stables with winter feeding had prevailed for pig fattening . In order to protect the solitary oaks that had arisen from premature deforestation, Duke Leopold IV. Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau used the "oak shelf" to preserve the oaks.
The solitary oaks that have survived to this day shape the landscape of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom and are part of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christiane Schultheis, Lutz Reichhoff: The oak shelf: a protected landscape component of the city of Dessau-Roßlau to protect the old oaks in the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. Nature Conservation in the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 48 (2011), Issue 1/2 Online Summary
- ↑ Antje Rohm: Oak shelf ensures something special. Volksstimme of October 6, 2011, accessed on August 2, 2017
- ↑ Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve. Retrieved August 2, 2017