French linden trees
The Franzosenlinden are a small, closed group of trees in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel on the western edge of the residential area of Lüntenbeck . The group consists of four winter linden trees ( Tilia cordata ) and is a botanical natural monument according to § 22 a + b of the Landscape Act North Rhine-Westphalia as a "closed group of trees, so-called French linden trees" due to scientific, natural history, geographical or geological reasons and because of their rarity, peculiarity or entered beauty.
description
The group of trees, which forms a square and is therefore also known as the "Lindenquadrat", is located in Broscheidt and around 150 meters east of Bahnstrasse ( Bundesstrasse 224 ). Broscheidt (other spelling Broscheid ) was a Kotten with an outbuilding and garden land at the end of the 18th century and belonged to the Lüntenbeck house . A brick factory was later operated here, where the Lüntenbeck sports field is located today . The main road goes back to an old road, which is recorded, among other things, on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715. It used to be part of the Werdenschen Kohlenstraße , which dates back to the 14th century and on the route of which the Essen – Solingen Provincial Road was laid in 1815 .
According to oral tradition , French soldiers or a deceased French officer were buried in the center of the four linden trees. The plantation thus also represents a funerary monument . The linden trees are said to have been planted at the time of Napoleon , i.e. before 1813. The road - - was also used as a military road at that time. From the proximity to Lüntenbeck Castle it is concluded that the grave monument could only be created with the consent of the master of the manor or, after the French era, could only be preserved over time through the reverence of the master.
In 2008 a wooden information sign was erected on the group of trees.
The root area of the winter linden
The root area of the winter linden
information sign
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ § 22 a and § 22 b LG NRW.
- ↑ closed group of trees, so-called French linden trees (3.05) (PDF)
- ^ A b c Antonia Dinnebier : Green Mile Lüntenbeck: Castle, City Forest, Lüntenbeck . Heinrich Köndgen, Wuppertal, 2011, ISBN 978-3-939843-15-3
- ↑ coal roads zeitspurensuche.de; accessed in October 2013
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ↑ a b c d Tree stories - Die Franzosenlinde . ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Local time Bergisches Land, August 21, 2013, with Antonia Dinnebier; Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b "Franzosenlinden" natural monument - pictures of the unveiling of the information board on the four linden trees at the Lüntenbeck sports field on August 22, 2008 on verband-wohneigentum.de; accessed in October 2013.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 44.5 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 22.6" E