Luther oak

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Luther oak in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

As Luther oak trees are oaks which have in the memory of Martin Luther were planted or directly related to the work of the Reformer should be available. Often these are trees of the pedunculate oak species . Best known is the Luther oak in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , where Luther burned his copy of the papal bull threatening exsurge domine in 1520 .

In 1883, on the occasion of Martin Luther's 400th birthday, Lutheran oaks were planted in many of the mostly Protestant-Lutheran towns. These trees represent the largest group of the Lutheran oaks today; they are often in squares in front of churches or other centrally located locations. They can be compared with the Bismarck oaks , which are reminiscent of Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , and the imperial empires . There were isolated planting of further Lutheran oaks in 1917 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Reformation .

When it was feared in the 1980s and 1990s that the Wittenberg Luther oaks would perish, acorns from the tree were distributed on various occasions in order to ensure survival in other places through the seedlings . In 1997 the Unna-Mühlhausen / Uelzen local history association received a few acorns at the award ceremony for the environmental award of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . In 1999 a young oak grown from these acorns was planted in front of the evangelical parish hall in Lünern and named Luther oak.

After Luther was Luther Linden and Luther Book named, and there are many Luther monuments . In addition to the reformer, Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) is another famous namesake of Eichen. So-called Hitler empires were also planted during National Socialism.

Locations of Luthereichen

Luther oak planted on November 10, 1883, Schloßstraße 44 in Berlin-Steglitz
Luthereiche Johannisthal, Segelfliegerdamm 34, corner Trützschlerstrasse

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Brandenburg

Luther oak on Heiligen-Geist-Platz in Jüterbog

Hamburg

Hesse

Luther oak in Brombach im Taunus

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

Luther oak next to the former school in Ditterke
Luther oak next to the chapel in Redderse
Luther oak in front of the Hölty-Gymnasium Wunstorf

North Rhine-Westphalia

Memorial stone at the Luther Oak in Herford

Rhineland-Palatinate

Memorial stone to the planting of the Luther oak in the Dresdner Heide
Luther oak in the center of the Dresden district of Kleinluga

Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

literature

  • Barbara Cornelissen: Luther oak, Lutherin tree, Luther rose - the environmental group of the Lünern Church keeps traditions alive. In: Nature report. Yearbook of the Nature Promotion Agency for the Unna District, Vol. 7, 2003, ISSN  0933-3363 , pp. 89-93.
  • Family sheet of the Lutherid Association, Volume 3, Issue 5, Volume 13, February 1939. Digitized (PDF) .

Web links

Commons : Luthereichen  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 300 oaks for Martin Luther. In: evangelisch.de. June 28, 2016, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Offers Eberswalde & the surrounding area - Schillertreppe, Eberswalde. Retrieved May 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Planting a Luther oak in the Old Cemetery in October 2017 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Martin-Luther-Bote, Martin-Luther-Kirchgemeinde Schönheide, October 2017 edition, p. 5