Court tree
A court tree designated common German law a tree under which in the Middle Ages and the early modern period regularly Court was held.
As a rule, these were very old and geographically distinctive trees, which often had a mythological or mystical function in pre-Christian times , such as the Saxon Irminsul destroyed by Charlemagne . Common tree species were oaks , often called remote oaks , and court linden or "blood linden".
In southern Germany also had Birnbaum common than court tree in mountainous regions such as Styria , the silver fir . Court trees of other tree species were rarer, but some of them were very well known for this, e.g. B. in Rüdesheim am Rhein a walnut tree .
See also
- Goo dish
- Femeiche (in Erle , North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Central court
literature
- Karl Heinz Burmeister : The old courts in Vorarlberg . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , NF Vol. 30, Vienna 1976, pp. 263–264
Web links
- Thing and judicial linden tree uni-goettingen.de
- Heiner Lück : What is legal archeology and what can it do? Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , Issue 8, 2012
- Robert Uhde: Modern “court tree ” - Court of Justice in Hasselt architecture magazine mapolis, October 1st, 2011