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The climbing tree (also climbing hook, ladder , scaling ladder , stile ) than military technical equipment and mining have long been known, but it is a common figure in the Heraldry rare.

Military technology

two-spar scale ladder

The climbing tree has probably been known since pre-Christian times and was found during civil engineering work in Lindau (Lake Constance) . A long tree trunk with treads stuck in on the side is to be assumed as the origin. Other terms are also known
for this climbing tree, also known as a single stile ladder , such as climbing hooks or scaling ladders. With the climbing hook and the scaling ladder as a further development of the climbing tree later with two spars, the importance of the special ladder shape becomes clear . In the two-spar design, the term wall breaker was also used . Today's modern form is also two girder hook ladder of the fire department .

Eskaladieren (escalade, Fr .: escalader, escalade) means climb by means of ladders, so the climb walls or steep slopes. This device was an important medieval weapon of war. Often with a single spar with hooks attached to the top, it was easy and easy to handle. So the storm columns should climb the wall of the castle or fortress on scaling ladders, try to fix themselves there and open the gate from the inside to clear the way for the reserves.

Civil use

Steigbaum as a climbing aid (single stile ladder) on the Hans-von-Haid-Steig

In the Oeconomic Encyclopedia (1773-1858) by JG Krünitz, the climbing tree is equated with the stair stringers: “Stair string, stair cheek, quarter tree, riser tree, for the carpenter, the side plank of a staircase into which the steps are holed. An exposed staircase, often also one on the wall, has two similar strings on both sides of the steps, in which these are fastened, as are the risers. "

Miners refer to a tree trunk with deep notches to overcome steep places in the pit (e.g. rock steps) as a climbing tree, which can be found at steeper places next to the conveyor rod. These climbing trees served as climbing aids, instead of ladders on which the miners carried the ore over the day.

In the Museum of Archeology of the Canton of Thurgau in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, you can see a 5400 year old climbing tree from the pile dwelling village of Arbon-Bleiche; this climbing tree thus served as a ladder as early as the Neolithic Age .

Today climbing trees or single stile ladders z. They are used, for example, in fruit growing (e.g. Tyrolean climbing fir) and in shaft construction due to their low weight.

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heraldry

He is shown in the coat of arms of the von Bredow family . “The family had a red climbing hook in their coat of arms, which stands as a symbol of their ascent into the first row of the Brandenburg nobility.” Likewise, places that were under the rule of von Bredow have the climbing tree in their coat of arms. This particularly affects many places in Havelland , such as B. Brieselang .

As a two-spar version, the scaling ladder is in the coat of arms of the Barons von Lützow (fitting of the family crypt in the church of Eickelberg ).

The Risch von Chur family from the city of Chur (Switzerland) shows two different climbing trees in their coat of arms from 1887. The coat of arms description is:

  • Golden climbing tree in red on three green tips
  • In blue on three green tips, green climbing tree

The uniqueness of the heraldic figure as a climbing tree was not always clear. It was often described as a hand ram, gondola beacon and, most recently, as a climbing tree.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : X. Fire Brigade Olympics 1993 in Berlin . In: Florian Hessen 9/1993 . Munkelt Verlag, 1993, ISSN  0936-5370 , p. 24-26 .
  2. ↑ Explanation of the Duden - German universal dictionary
  3. ↑ Economic Encyclopedia (1773-1858) by JG Krünitz
  4. ↑ Mining terms
  5. ↑ Karla Lindt: Red climbing hook in the coat of arms. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 15, 1994, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Dietrich Jäklin: coat of arms of Anno 1887 citizens living families of the city of Chur. Compiled from the heraldic books, older a. more recently as well as after sigils and pettships in the Graubünden coat of arms collection. B. Gerhardt, Chur 1889.
  7. ^ Carl von Mayer : Heraldic ABC book. In commission from JA Finsterlin, Munich 1857, p. 284 .
  8. ↑ Description of the coat of arms - Brieselang: "On a blue wave shield, topped with the coat of arms of Bredow - in silver a red climbing tree with three cross rungs - in silver two birches with a natural trunk, green crown and green catkins." ( State of Brandenburg - coat of arms of the municipality of Brieselang )
  9. ↑ Description of the coat of arms - Office Brüssow (Uckermark) : "Split by silver and red, inside a ladder with four rungs in confused colors." The rungs and the central bar symbolize the 5 municipalities belonging to the office. ( Main Statute, Section 2 Paragraph 2 )