Holzkönig
The Hölzlekönig , also Hölzleskönig , was a 400-year-old tree, a silver fir, and was located in the district in Villingen-Schwenningen on today's Ostweg, which is named after him . A carnival figure from the Schwenninger carnival is named after the fir tree . It is not to be confused with the Hölzlekönigin , also a decayed silver fir.
For four centuries the Hölzlekönig was considered Germany's largest fir tree with a height of over 50 meters and a chest height of more than six meters. After 1876 a storm tore off both main peaks of the giant tree, and in 1915 a hailstorm bent it. In 1941 the rotten trunk collapsed.
Chief forester Junginger described the tree in 1889, according to which the tree was still 42 meters high and the circumference at 1.30 m height was 600 cm, at 1.50 m 580 cm, at 3 m height still 502 cm, at 30 m height still 360 cm. He calculated the trunk to be 52.2 ft . With the side peaks, branches and roots he calculated 58 cubic meters. For the demolished top he put 6 cubic meters on the entire tree, so around 64 cubic meters of wood. The tree was a popular destination, there were tables and benches around the tree, and numerous souvenir photos were taken. Junginger described the tree as fresh and drifting , but as early as 1911 the tree was gradually dying. On January 16, 1915, a storm snapped the tree 20 m high.
Georg Herrigel wrote a romantic story that found its way into the Swabian sagas and has been retold many times since then.
literature
- Jochen Schultheiß: Der Schwenninger Hölzlekönig In: Almanach 96, Heimatjahrbuch Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, 1996.
- Georg Herrigel: The Hölzle King. Story by G. Herrigel. Printing and publishing by H. Kuhn, Schwenningen a. Neckar. 1901.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jochen Schultheiß: Der Schwenninger Hölzlekönig , p. 346
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 8 ° 30 ′ 12.2 ″ E