Lindenallee (Tübingen)

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Old linden tree in the Tübingen Lindenallee

The Lindenallee is the oldest tree plant in Tübingen . It is located in the western part of the Südstadt between the Wildermuth-Gymnasium and the sports facilities of SV 03 Tübingen on the so-called "Oberen Wöhrd". Originally, it extended from the Hirschauer Steg, today's avenue bridge, to the Weilheim marker border. It was interrupted in several places in the course of the twentieth century by the construction of the Ammertal Railway, two traffic routes and later a bypass road and destroyed in its entirety. About half of the original avenue is still preserved, but only a few of the oldest giant trees are still there.

The layout of the avenue goes back to the year 1508, when the city of Tübingen gave the university a gift of the trees with which the entrances to the teaching buildings around the collegiate church were to be embellished.

"Naturkneipe" Lindenallee around 1900 (by Reinhold Julius Hartmann)

The old Lindenallee was not only a popular promenade, but was also the scene of numerous “ natural bars ” for the Tübingen fraternity students . Every year on Corpus Christi day, the royal society Roigel from Tübingen first moved into the avenue. In the shade of the trees, she turned a drinking horn filled with beer around, and all passers-by were invited to join in the celebration.

At a meeting of the city council on December 19, 1908, in connection with the routing of the Ammertal Railway from Tübingen to Herrenberg, the council chairman announced to a citizen committee member who was urgent to protect the beautiful old linden trees that “all possible protection should be given to the tree population there, after all But you shouldn't go too far in the preservation of old trees if more important interests that will exist for many decades stand in the way. "

At a meeting on January 9, 1909, the mayor Hermann Haußer and the local councils vehemently rejected the demands of Prof. Konrad Lange on behalf of the University of Tübingen, who had been challenged to take a hard position in the context of the so-called avenue bickering . He accused the city administration of a policy of dissipating information, even suppressing it.

In 1911, with the removal of traffic, measures were taken to protect the Alte Lindenallee. In 1933, further maintenance measures followed, especially tree surgery and replanting of lost trees. However, around a third of the avenue had to be sacrificed in 1979 for the construction of the B 28 bypass .

How many first-generation linden trees still exist today is difficult to say: at best twelve, but probably only five.

literature

  • Jürgen Blümle: The tree book: The oldest and most beautiful trees from the Tübingen and Reutlingen region. Schwäbisches Tagblatt publishing house, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-928011-59-6

Web links

Commons : Lindenallee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Alte Lindenallee in Tübingen" in the tree register, at www.baumkunde.de
  2. ^ "Alte Lindenallee" at TÜpedia - the city wiki for Tübingen
  3. ↑ Wilfried Setzler: The dispute over the Tübinger Alleen and the homeland security movement .
  4. ↑ Michael Petersen: 100 Years Ammertalbahn - Next Station Saloniki Hauptbahnhof ( Memento from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Stuttgarter Zeitung from June 15, 2009.

Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '43.9 "  N , 9 ° 2' 40.2"  E