Labyrinth
The at Kraftshof ( force Forst ) near Nürnberg preferred Irrhain is the gathering of Pegnesischen flower north , a 1644 until today existing voice and literature society . The original facility was a maze-like forest.
history
Originally, the circle of poets around Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Johann Klaj , who founded the Flower Order in 1644, gathered in the so-called Poetenwäldchen near the Weidenmühle, a peninsula formed by an oxbow lake from the Pegnitz . After the owner of the property had made this place inaccessible by a fence, the members met in the house Zum halben Mond , which belonged to Andreas Ingolstätter .
In order to be able to cultivate near-natural poetry again, the pastor of Kraftshof, Martin Limburger , proposed to the former head of the order Sigmund von Birken in 1676 that a new meeting place should be created in an overgrown oak grove near the village of Kraftshof. Limburger developed the concept of a talking garden , he understood the “mad-forest” as a symbol of the “world-mad-forest”, which corresponded to the contemporary pietistic spirit. In 1678 the work was completed, in 1681 the forest alms office on the Sebald town side confirmed to the flower order that it had received the “Irrhain” as an eternal fief .
The original labyrinthine idea was eventually completely abandoned. In 1796 the snake walk was abandoned because it was too laborious to look after, in 1802 further simplifications followed and in 1878 the route was changed in such a way that it was no longer possible to get lost.
In the period that followed, the Irrhain became more and more a place of mere tradition. In 1855 the Bavarian King Maximilian II attended the order's Irrhainfest. The entrance portal, which still exists today, was built for the 250th anniversary in 1894. In 1944 the Irrhain was damaged by the effects of the war, it became overgrown at times and was only used for private purposes.
In the Irrhain there are memorial stones from the 18th and 19th centuries that are dedicated to members of the order, for example an obelisk for honorary member Christoph Martin Wieland . Of the more than thirty memorial plaques that were once attached to trees, only one remains. After 1996, four new panels were added.
In 1992 the society hut was rebuilt. Every year on the first Sunday in July the "Irrhainfest" took place, where a "Irrhainspiel" was performed on the natural stage. Mainly pieces by Hans Sachs were performed .
The Nuremberg Forestry Agency informed the association in May 2008 that the Irrhain can no longer be used as an event location. The background to this is the protection of the hermit beetle by the fauna-flora-habitat directive of the EU . To protect the beetle, neither dead wood nor tree pruning may be made, which also excludes the organization of the Irrhainfest.
shape
The maze was divided into several areas. The larger part consisted of an irregular network of hedge-flanked paths, with patches of meadow in between. In another section there was a quadruple zigzag path called the Serpent Walk. There was also the mad forest , with a dummy cemetery and memorial stones. Several arbours and a social hut existed as meeting points .
literature
- Wiegel, Helmut: The labyrinth of the Pegnesian flower order. In: Die Gartenkunst 5 (2/1993), pp. 293–306.
- Hermann Rusam: The labyrinth of the Pegnesian flower order in Nuremberg. The laudable shepherd and flower order on the Pegnitz Irrwald near Kraftshof . Altnürnberger Landschaft eV - Nuremberg: Korn & Berg, 1983, 83 p., Numerous. Ill., ISBN 3-87432-089-8 (series of publications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft; 33)
- Hermann Kern: Labyrinths. Appearances and interpretations. 5000 years of presence of a prototype. Munich 1982 [3. Ed. 1995], p. 383.
Web links
- Labyrinth
- Walk through the maze. Retrieved November 6, 2014 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '52.2 " N , 11 ° 3' 37.8" E