Tanzlinde (Limmersdorf)
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The Tanzlinde in Limmersdorf , a district of the market town of Thurnau in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach , is an approximately 350-year-old linden tree . The Tanzlinde stands in the center of the village on the square north of the cemetery. It is a protected natural monument .
The eight-sided dance floor on octagonal house pillars , which is marked with the year 1729, is on the list of architectural monuments .
The linden tree is around 16 meters high with a trunk circumference of five meters. The dance floor is about four meters high.
In the spring of 2014, the Bavarian Council of Ministers decided to propose the Lindenkirchweih for entry in the nationwide register of intangible cultural heritage . In December 2014, the application was accepted and confirmed by the Conference of Ministers of Education . The Lindenkirchweih is one of 27 cultural forms in the German directory of intangible cultural heritage .
Web links
- Beatrice Härig: The "Kerwa" and the dance on the linden tree in monuments. Magazine for Monument Culture in Germany , February 2015.
- Katja Auer: How the Kerwa was preserved under the linden tree in Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 31, 2017
- Association for the preservation and promotion of the Limmersdorfer parish fair tradition
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lindenkirchweih: Tanzlinde is to become a world cultural heritage ( memento of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). BR.de, April 1, 2014
- ↑ http://www.unesco.de/ua50-2014.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 34.6 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 24.9 ″ E