Ginkgo in Rödelheim

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The ginkgo in Rödelheim, view from the west. Left in the picture the Petrihaus
Fair copy of the Goethe poem Gingo biloba

The Ginkgo in Rödelheim is a single tree of the Ginkgo biloba species from China in the city of Frankfurt am Main . He was about in 1750 next to the Petri house in the then to the county Solms-Rödelheim belonging place Roedelheim planted. The house was temporarily the property and residence of the merchant and banker Georg Brentano . With an age of over 260 years, the tree is the oldest specimen of its kind in Germany, its height is about 18 meters. The ginkgo in Rödelheim has the status of a natural monument and is only partially accessible to the public.

Location

The ginkgo tree is on the south-eastern edge of the Alt-Rödelheim district, on the south side of the Petrihaus, just a few meters away. The perimeter of 10 meters around the tree, like this one, is also under protection. In the immediate vicinity, bordering the Petrihaus property to the southeast, runs the Nidda river , which passes the Rödelheim weir (→ weir ) there. The larger eastern part of the Brentano Park , named after the Brentano family, is located on the river bank opposite the property .

Assumptions about Goethe's inspiration from the tree

In September 1814 the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a guest of the Brentano family in Rödelheim. The following year he wrote his poem Gingo biloba , part of his West-Eastern Divan . It is believed that Goethe was inspired to write this poem by the sight of the tree, which was around 65 years old at the time. An information board at the foot of the tree suggests this. His fair copy of this poem, dated September 15, 1815, which Goethe dedicated to his late love, the Frankfurt bourgeois daughter Marianne von Willemer , was decorated with two ginkgo leaves. However, these cannot be reliably assigned to the Rödelheim ginkgo tree.

Transport links

Natural monument sign on the trunk of the tree
View into the treetop

The bus stop of the Frankfurter Verkehrsgesellschaft VgF , which is closest to the Petrihaus and thus the ginkgo tree, is the Alt-Rödelheim stop served by lines 34 and 72, a few meters west of the property. The closest stop on the S3 – S5 lines of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn is Frankfurt-Rödelheim station , around 500 meters west of the Petrihaus.

The grounds of the Petrihaus, the building and the Rödelheimer Ginkgo are only accessible to the public for events organized by the Petrihaus Förderverein as well as on the afternoons of the last Sunday of each month from spring to autumn. One of the entrances to the property leads on a narrow, secured footbridge over the Rödelheim weir.

See also

literature

  • City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
  • Siegfried Unseld : Goethe and the Ginkgo. A tree and a poem . Insel-Verlag IB 1188, Frankfurt am Main 1998. 20th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-458-19188-9

Web links

Commons : Ginkgo in Rödelheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ginkgo in Rödelheim at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  2. ↑ a b Information board of the Petrihaus development association at the foot of the tree
  3. ↑ a b City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
  4. ^ Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): General route plan for Frankfurt am Main, 2012 edition
  5. ↑ Notice of events and opening times of the Petrihaus am Wehr Rödelheim, as of September 2013.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 26.3 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 51 ″  E