Stuttgart Gaishirtle

The Stuttgarter Gaishirtle (also Geishirtl or Geishirtli ) is a variety of pear ( Pyrus communis ) that can be used as a table pear as well as cider pear and dried fruit . The variety was allegedly found by a goatherd around 1750 near Stuttgart . The Geishirtle was included in the list of the 50 recommended varieties of the seventh assembly of German pomologists (Trier) .

Synonyms: True Stuttgardter Geishirtenbirne, Chevriers de Stuttgardt, Honigbirne, Hutzelbirne, (long-stemmed) Stuttgarter Russelet, sugar pear

description

Grafted on wildling , the medium-strong tree is also well suited as a house tree thanks to its harmonious, pyramidal shape. When refined on quince, the growth remains weak, but it is also suitable for training as a trellis and bush . The variety thrives in any soil, but prefers warm locations and is quite resistant to pests and diseases.

The rather small, sometimes bulbous fruit has a smooth, yellowish green skin with many red spots. The taste is described as very sweet and spicy like cinnamon. The pulp is firm. The fruits can be enjoyed straight from the tree.

The early blooming is persistent and insensitive to wetness and cold weather. The variety is considered a good pollen donor. The pollinators are “ Clapps Liebling ”, “ Gellert's Butterbirne ”, “ Gute Luise ” and “ Williams Christ ”.

The Gaishirtle ripens as an early summer pear at the end of August and can then be kept for about eight days, and not all pears ripen at the same time, so that harvesting can take place over a longer period of time. Their short usability is compensated for by their suitability for preservation and especially for drying. The Hutzeln of the Gaishirtle are next to dried plums a main ingredient for Hutzelbrot . Since it contains less tannic acid and less juice than other varieties, it is not as suitable as a cider pear.

Occasionally, vulnerabilities to scab and summit drought have been observed.

Individual evidence

↑ BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database ; Retrieved July 9, 2017.
↑ Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl : The reliable guide in fruit science on the botanical-pomological way or systematic description of all types of fruit. Volume 2: Systematic description of all pear varieties. In addition to the quinces, Speyerlingen, Azeroles, etc. Medlars. Wilhelm Schmid, Nuremberg 1856, p. 45 .
↑ Thomas Langner: plant & care: pear - pollinator table. Retrieved on December 2, 2012 (overview of the pollinator varieties for pears).
↑ Gaishirtle. In: Taste the south of Baden-Württemberg. MBW Marketinggesellschaft, accessed on February 11, 2015 (commodities).
↑ Preservation of old pome fruit varieties. Competence Center Obstbau-Bodensee, February 1, 2011, accessed on December 2, 2012 : "An Interreg IIIA project of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Vorarlberg, the Principality of Liechtenstein and Switzerland"

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Deutscher Pomologen-Verein (Ed.): Lauche’s first supplementary volume to Lucas and Oberdieck’s Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde. Parey, Berlin 1883.
Walter Hartmann (Ed.): Color Atlas of Old Fruit Types. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3173-0 .

Web links

Commons : Stuttgarter Gaishirtle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Index card of the variety in the BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database
Stuttgart Gaishirtle. Association of employees for fruit growing, gardening and landscape, accessed on February 11, 2015 (variety description).

[1] BUND-Lemgo fruit variety database ; Retrieved July 9, 2017.

[2] Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl : The reliable guide in fruit science on the botanical-pomological way or systematic description of all types of fruit. Volume 2: Systematic description of all pear varieties. In addition to the quinces, Speyerlingen, Azeroles, etc. Medlars. Wilhelm Schmid, Nuremberg 1856, p. 45 .

[3] Thomas Langner: plant & care: pear - pollinator table. Retrieved on December 2, 2012 (overview of the pollinator varieties for pears).

[4] Gaishirtle. In: Taste the south of Baden-Württemberg. MBW Marketinggesellschaft, accessed on February 11, 2015 (commodities).

[5] Preservation of old pome fruit varieties. Competence Center Obstbau-Bodensee, February 1, 2011, accessed on December 2, 2012 : "An Interreg IIIA project of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Vorarlberg, the Principality of Liechtenstein and Switzerland"