Grain linden
The grain linden is a centuries-old linden tree in Eichigt in the Saxon Vogtland which is considered a natural monument. In 2003 it had a circumference of 8.16 m.
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The linden tree owes its name to reports that the Lützower Jäger on 8/9 June 1813 are said to have bivouacked on the meadow next to the church when they wanted to raid the town of Hof in Upper Franconia in order to win their population over to the liberation struggle against Napoleon . While Adolf Freiherr von Lützow found hospitable reception from the then Pastor Wirth, the poet Theodor Körner is said to have slept in the bivouac near the linden tree. Von Lützow wrote two reports from Eichigt about the successes of his ventures to the general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher . Körner wrote a letter from Eichigt to his patroness Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein in Vienna.
The meadow was given the name Husarenwiese because of the bivouac . And here we also have a pear tree and an oak have stood that should Hussars pear and hussars oak were called. It is not known when these two trees no longer exist. It is said that there were stables between the rectory and the Husarenwiese on the street at that time.
The old people always made fun of this representation by Pastor Max Allwill Bühring from 1910 in the "Saxon Church Gallery". We owe our more recent findings to this fact. We have always been irritated that Theodor Körner had written in the above-mentioned letter before us: "From a bivouac on a meadow between Klosterschenke and Dorfstrasse".
As can be determined from sources that have since become known, the Klosterschänke stood where the stable of the mayor Karlheinz Penzel, who is now retired, is located today.
The old gauges also made their rhyme with the name Klosterschenke. They suspected that it got the name because on a small hill opposite there might have been a kind of church, like the one on some mountains in Bavaria. However, we have now learned that there is obviously a lot more to the name than they thought it would be. According to more recent information, there were connections between the Langheim Abbey near Staffelstein and Eichigt. At that time the monastery tavern was probably operated by monks from the Langheim monastery. The monastery was also - as we have learned from reliable sources - the patron saint of the church in Bobenneukirchen .
Web links
- Eichigt municipal website (information also under Sportfest 2003)
- Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, map collection, TK25 - Adorf sheet - 1913 edition (digitized version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Upper Vogtland (= values of our homeland . Volume 26). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976, p. 60. ( Online )
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 53.2 " N , 12 ° 10 ′ 22.3" E