Tübingen giant barrel
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The Tübingen Giant Barrel is the oldest among the oversized barrels from the early modern period, which some princes made at that time. It dates from 1549 and contains 84,000 liters or 286 buckets , with one bucket equating to 294 liters.
The wooden board on the barrel tells his story:
- “I am known as a great book
- So called by Duke Ulrich
- I was built in 1546
- From 90 oaks, as you can see
- Twice I was filled with wine
- I take 286 buckets. "
Duke Ulrich had commissioned the barrel from the cooper master Simon from Bönnigheim , which caused him the anger of the Tübingen cooper. The Duke himself was upset after the opening: the barrel turned out to be leaking. Therefore the barrel was only filled twice and was soon forgotten.
Today the giant barrel shares the so-called barrel cellar under the knight's hall of Hohentübingen Castle with mouse-eared bats , a rare species. To protect them, the barrel was no longer open to the public from 1991 to 2018. In the meantime, however, the population has decreased significantly, with only 20 to 30 bats remaining in the basement during the winter months. In addition, a second cellar door enables a direct connection to the rooms of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT , so that visitors do not have to enter the sanctuary of the animals that are protected.
The Tübinger barrel is a good 200 years older than the famous Heidelberg barrel and also 50 years older than the Gröninger barrel in Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt), which until the Tübingen barrel was recognized as the world's oldest giant wine barrel and its entry in the Guinness Book of Records in October 2019 as the oldest giant wine barrel in the world.
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- ↑ a b c Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Tübingen opens a giant barrel . In: swp.de . ( swp.de [accessed on January 11, 2018]).
- ↑ Big barrel - TUEpedia. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '9.7 " N , 9 ° 3' 1.2" E