Yellow Saxon Renette

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Yellow Saxon Renette
Synonyms Lemon apple, Meissen winter lemon apple, Yellow Renette, Saxon Renette, Leipzig late yellow Reinette
Yellow Saxon Renette (here as "Saxon Yellow Renette", lithograph around 1900)

Yellow Saxon Renette (here as "Saxon Yellow Renette", lithograph around 1900)

Art Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica )
origin Meissen
known since circa 1800
ancestry

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The Yellow Saxon Renette is an old variety of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ). The variety, also known as lemon apple or Meissen winter lemon apple (not to be confused with the Seestermüher lemon apple ), is only regionally widespread and comes from the Meissen area and was named the first Saxon fruit variety of the year in 2016 .

The yellow Saxon Renette is (as of 2018) on the red list of endangered indigenous crops in Germany . In addition to regional new plantings, the survival of the variety is also ensured through ex-situ measures .

description

Sectional drawing of the Saxon yellow Reinette

fruit

The yellow Saxon Renette is a mostly spherical, partly tall apple with a shiny lemon-yellow skin that can occasionally have reddish tints. The flesh is yellowish, slightly sour and juicy. The variety is very suitable as a cider apple.

The yellow Saxon Renette ripens between December and March, which classifies the variety as a winter apple. The Yellow Saxon Renette delivers good yields, which, however, only start late ( after 10 to 15 years in the case of high stems ) and alternate , i.e. not occur every year.

tree

The tree makes no special demands on the soil or the climate. It reaches an average fruit tree size, the crown grows very broad if it is not cut back.

Origin and Distribution

Illustration of the yellow Saxon Renette from the Teutsches Obstgärtner, 1803, here still named as lemon apple

The first known records of the cultivation of the yellow Saxon reindeer date from around 1800. They describe the variety, then still known as lemon apple or Meissen winter lemon apple, as a winter apple variety that was not seldom, but only cultivated in the Meissen area. To avoid confusion with other apples, the variety was renamed Yellow Saxon Renette in the 1880s.

In their homeland, the variety was recommended for cultivation and was part of the normal fruit range published in 1885 for the Kingdom of Saxony . As a winter apple that was easy to store, its fruits dominated the market for apples in Saxony from Christmas until late spring. Since the yellow Saxon Renette was valued as one of the best commercial apples, especially for the preparation of apple sauce, the fruits had a high market value. The apple remained widespread in the Meißner area until the First World War , but after its end it was removed from the Saxon fruit assortment and therefore no longer considered.

In 2015, the stock of trees of the yellow Saxon reindeer was estimated at only 25 specimens. In the course of the appointment to the Saxon fruit variety of the year 2016, pomologists then began in cooperation with regional tree nurseries to propagate the variety from the branches of the old trees and to spread it again. Also on the occasion of the appointment, a copy of the tree was planted in 2016 by the then Saxon Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich in the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau .

literature

  • Pomologen-Verein eV, Landesgruppe Sachsen (Hrsg.): Sächsische Obstsorte 2016 - Yellow Saxon Renette. Leaflet, 2016. ( PDF; 3.1 MB )
  • Theodor Engelbrecht : Germany's apple varieties . Verlag Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1889, p. 759 .

Web links

Commons : Yellow Saxon Renette  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann-Heinrich Rolff: The apple - variety names and synonyms . tape 1 . Books on Demand, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8311-0956-2 , pp. 142 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b 47. Saxon yellow renette. In: Normal fruit range for the Kingdom of Saxony. Verlag Heinrich, Dresden 1885, p. 49
  3. ↑ Red list of endangered native crops in Germany. Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, March 8, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2018 (PDF; 728 KB).
  4. ↑ Yellow Saxon Renette. Plantura.garden, accessed October 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Katrin Saft: Saxony is rediscovering its fruit treasures. Freie Presse, August 27, 2015, accessed October 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Regina Weiß: "Better to bring two or three more apples". Lausitzer Rundschau, September 28, 2016, accessed on October 9, 2018 .