Court tree

Vote court under a 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