Horner Linden

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The Horner Linde in front of the Church of the Holy Cross in 2008

The Horner Linde is a distinctive single tree in the Horn-Lehe district of Bremen . The linden tree that stands in the cemetery in front of the Church of the Holy Cross is around 800 years old. This makes it the oldest tree in Bremen and one of the oldest trees in Northern Germany.

history

The Horner linden tree is evidence of the settlement of Horn in the 12th century on an elevated piece of land between Kleiner Wümme and Gete . The linden tree was probably planted shortly after the construction of the first Sanctae Crucis tom Horne chapel . The tree originally served as a court linden tree , here was the court place dinghe tho the horn where the thing was held in the early Middle Ages . The Horner linden tree is first mentioned in a document in 1380.

The tree

Trunk of the Horner Linden

The linden tree has grown together from three trunks and is more than four meters in diameter. Until the end of the 1960s, it was surrounded by a large round bench, today by several individual benches. A plaque with an inscription recalls the history of the linden tree and the place:

“The Dutch farmers, who have settled in Horn, Lehe and the Vahr since the beginning of the 12th century, planted these approximately 900 years of linden trees at their church of St. Keuz."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Koppel: Chronicle. In: Chronicle Horn-Lehe. Retrieved July 5, 2012 .
  2. ^ Civic Association Horn-Lehe: Our district. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bv-horn-lehe.de
  3. ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  4. ↑ Horn-Lehe . In: Ostbremer Rundschau . Bremen April 5, 1968 ( chronik-horn-lehe.de [JPG]).

literature

  • Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5 .
  • Parish Horn, local office and civil association Horn-Lehe (Ed.): 800 years of Horn-Lehe . Bremen 1985.

Web links

Commons : Horner Linde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '48.1 "  N , 8 ° 52' 10.4"  E