Parish linden tree (Frankenthal)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parish linden tree in January 2009

The parish linden tree is the landmark of the Frankenthal community near Bischofswerda . Together with the Pfarrberg ( 335  m above sea  level ), a bunch of ears, a scythe and rake , it is shown in the community seal.

The winter linden was planted on the Pfarrberg in 1783 at the behest of the pastor's wife Theodora Janicaud on the occasion of the birth of her first son. Today it is a natural monument and bears a plaque with the inscription:

"In 1783, Mrs. Theodora Janicaud had this tree planted in memory and thanks on the occasion of the birth of her first son.
This tree is under special care of the Frankenthal community and the Heimatschutz"

The trunk of the 25 meter high linden tree is hollow. The mighty treetop is supplied by three adventitious roots that are around 10 cm thick and lead upwards inside the hollow tree trunk.

As early as the 1980s, a "sister" was planted opposite the linden tree, which had been weakened by lightning, in order to preserve the landmark for the future in view of its advanced age.

Location

The parish hooves moved from the Frankenthaler church and parish along the local connection road to Rammenau . At 335 meters, the Pfarrberg is its highest elevation and, together with the parish linden tree, which can be seen from afar, forms “an excellent landmark ”.

Your location offers a very good view of the surrounding Oberlausitzer Bergland and the neighboring villages. Behind the “catchment area of ​​the Grunabach between Rammenau and Großharthau, which is accompanied by Pleistocene meltwater deposits ” lies “the granidioritene Valtenberg - Rüdenberg massif” in the south-east, while the Lauterbacher wood and Stolpen Castle can be seen in the south . In good weather the view extends to the Ore Mountains .

In the north is the Kleppischberg ( 343  m above sea  level ) located four hundred meters south of Oberrammenau . Its group of trees, consisting of five linden trees in a circle, was planted in 1817 and is also under protection. In the valley, west of the local connection road towards Rammenau, lies the Pfarrbusch, a pine - spruce forest on the field border with Hauswalde .

  • View to the parish linden tree, behind the Valtenberg

  • The linden tree in October 2008

  • View from the Pfarrberg towards Pfarrbusch, behind the Kleppischberg

Janicaud family

Tomb with plaque in the churchyard. In memory of the religious refugee Jacques, his son Francois and the grandson Wilhelm Adolf Janicaud, who was a pastor in Frankenthal.

The Janicaud family originally lived in the French town of Aubusson . She professed the reformed faith and was ridiculed and persecuted as a Huguenot . When this religious group lost its religious freedom again through the edict of Fontainebleau in 1685 and conditions in Catholic France became unbearable, the wallpaper weaver Jakob Janicaud, born in 1663, fled to Württemberg . He knew how to make wallpaper with woven-in patterns, and capable Huguenots were warmly welcomed at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ludwig . When French armies invaded and plundered at the beginning of the 18th century, he left Stuttgart and founded a wallpaper factory in Berlin , later he transplanted his artful industry to the residence of the pompous Augustus the Strong in Dresden . His son Francois was born here in 1712, who was his successor in his father's trade. Later he taught as a French teacher at the Bautzen grammar school. In old age he lived with his son Wilhelm Adolph Janicaud (1745-1814), who had been a pastor in Frankenthal since 1780. He married Concordia Theodora, the daughter of the Pulsnitz pastor Wagner, on February 20, 1781 , and they had nine more children.

literature

  • Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • Max Militzer: Green Lausitz , 1938, Bernhardt Bautzen

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemorative plaque of the parish linden tree (photo on Wikimedia Commons)
  2. ↑ Karl Heinz Christoph : 7.5.12 individual formations of nature . Frankenthal parish linden tree. In: Werner Hempel , Bernhard Klausnitzer , Hans-Werner Otto (Hrsg.): The nature of the district of Bautzen . Landscape, geology, botany, zoology, protected areas and natural monuments. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH, Bautzen 2005, ISBN 3-930625-37-7 , p. 169 .
  3. ↑ a b c Pfarrberg. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Kleppischberg. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 102.
  5. ↑ Land use plan with integrated landscape plan: explanatory report. (PDF) In: bischofswerda.de. Large district town of Bischofswerda, Rammenau municipality, June 8, 2006, p. 101 , accessed on February 1, 2010 (Chapter 3.13.11 Natural monuments, registration number 235: Linden group on the Kleppischberg).
  6. ↑ Helmut Petzold: At the Frankenthaler Linde . In: The Rammenauer Breviary , 1988, Museum Barockschloss Rammenau in collaboration with the Fichte Circle of Friends

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '20.3 ​​"  N , 14 ° 6' 44.2"  E