Klopstock oak
The Klopstockeiche (also Klopstock-Eiche ) is an oak that is dedicated as a memorial tree to the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803), whereby there is a connection between the location of the tree and the earlier historical presence of Klopstock.
Locations of Klopstockeichen
There are two well-documented Klopstock oaks and others that seem to be popularly referred to as that, but which are not officially documented. Only the two oaks in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark are described here.
Gut Eckhof, Schleswig-Holstein
 
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Gut Eckhof (location of the oak) |
Position (Gut Eckhof): 54 ° 26 ′ 10.8 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 17.8 ″ E
On Gut Eckhof , in the area of the municipality of Strande in the Danish town of Wohld , district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde , State of Schleswig-Holstein , there is a pedunculate oak known as "Klopstockeiche" , which has been documented since at least 1875.
Connection of the memorial tree to Klopstock : Klopstock was friends with Count Holck's family and was a frequent guest at the estate between 1770 and 1794. According to other information, Klopstock is said to have been a guest when Jens Peter Bruun Neergard was the owner of the farm.
Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, Denmark
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Position of Klopstocks Eg |
Position (Klopstocks Eg): 55 ° 46 ′ 43.8 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 1.3" E
Klopstocks Eg (Danish name for "Klopstocks oak") is in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality , Hovedstaden region , on the Prinsessestien (German princess path), near the Furesø (German Furesee) on the northern edge of the Åmosen moorland.
The oak ( Quercus robur robur ) was placed under nature protection in 1956 on the initiative of Danmarks Naturfredningsforening; the age was then estimated to be about 800 years; the height is 6.05 meters, the circumference 1.93 meters. The tree and its surroundings are supported by Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality with contributions from the Weimann Fund.
On May 31, 2013, a very large branch, about a fifth of the oak, broke off. The Prinsessestien was closed until the cleanup was finished. The accident occurred about a week after the annual meeting of the Danish Klopstock Society ( Klopstockselskab 1984 ), which Klopstocks Eg had attended on every third Saturday in May as usual.
Connection of the memorial tree to Klopstock : Klopstocks Eg commemorates Klopstock's many Danish stays from 1751 to 1770 - sometimes accompanied by his wife Meta (1728–1758) - in Lyngby and Copenhagen. He was invited and financially supported by the Danish King Friedrich V.
During these stays, a.o. a. The Spring Celebration and The Messiah . The presence of the German poet had a great influence on the Danish poet Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), with whom the newer period of Danish literature began.
Metaphor: Klopstock, "an oak that can withstand the storm"
Because of his character - "... not only one of the greatest and most brilliant poets, but also one of the noblest, most amiable and strongest people. Four flames glowed through his heart: love of God, fatherland, friendship and fame. "- was testified by his friends, for example the writer Helfrich Peter Sturz (1736–1779) and by his childhood friend, the preacher Abraham Beindorf (1733–1777) , the metaphor "an oak tree that stands up to the hurricane" is also used for the person Klopstock.
His friends took this formulation from Klopstock himself, who wrote in his ode praise of the prince :
- Because you, a flexible spring shoot
- With smaller things
- If it is bigger,
- Oak that stands the hurricane.
Klopstock was very fond of oaks; He especially liked to use the phrase “German oak” as a metaphor for Germany.
More memorial trees in memory of Klopstock
In addition to oaks, there are also other tree species that are supposed to be reminiscent of Klopstock, for example:
- Linden trees like the one that was planted on his grave in 1803;
- Klopstockbuchen, like those in the Duchy of Lauenburg. In the Hörnkenbruch forest village of Gut Stintenburg there is a beech tree in which Klopstock is said to have cut his name (FK). Nearby, namely on the north side of the dam between the Stintenburginsel and the village of Lassahn, there is an impressive Klopstock oak, approx. Two meters in diameter and seven meters high, only marked by a sign.
literature
- HV Qvistorff: famous danske træer. 66 træer and their history. Danmarks Radios Forlag, Copenhagen 1995, p. 96 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein (1875), Volume XII, Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, 1906, pp. 149, 200, 395
- ↑ Writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein, Volume XIII, Issue 2, p. 27 , (1906).
- ↑ a b Danst Dendrologisk Forening: Klopstocks Eg
- ^ Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune: Prinsessestien
- ↑ Signe Steffensen: Klopstockegen offer for naturens luner ( memento of the original from July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Det Grønne Område, May 29, 2013; Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ↑ His brother, AP Klopstock, ran a factory in Lyngby from 1757 to 1794, where silk fabrics with printed patterns were made.
- ^ Conrad Bosse, WL Bosse: Klopstockische studien 1867, p. 23.
- ^ Heinrich Gelzer: The newer German national literature according to its ethical and religious viewpoints: To the cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . S. Hirzel, 1858, p. 220.
- ^ Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: Encyclopedia of German National Literature; or, Biographical-critical lexicon of German poets and prose writers since the earliest times: together with samples from their works . O. Wigand, 1839, p. 378.
- ↑ Heidenreich to K 1839, p. 378.
- ^ Lectures on the History of German Literature: A Reader for Adult Youth . Brockhaus, 1844, p. 1.
- ^ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Klopstock's entire works in one volume with the portrait of the author . GI Göschen, 1840, p. 482.
- ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung: with special regard to the Austrian imperial state 1824, p. 256.
- ^ Albert Boime : A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815 . University of Chicago Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-06335-5 , p. 448.
- ↑ Andreas Andresen, Joseph Edward Wessely: The German painter-Radirer (Peintres-Graveurs) of the nineteenth century after their life a. Works . A. Danz, 1872, p. 38.
- ↑ Baumkunde - online database for trees and shrubs: Klopstock-Linde ; accessed on June 24, 2016.
- ^ Wilhelm Christian August Heering: Trees and Forests Schleswig-Holstein: A contribution to the natural and cultural history of the province . Schmidt & Klaunig, 1906, p. 27.
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