Wartbaum
The Wartbaum is a summer linden ( Tilia platyphyllos ) and a natural monument in Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district . It is a linden tree on a hill between the Nidderau district of Windecken and Bruchköbel - Roßdorf . The Wartbaum is around 24 meters high and has a trunk circumference of around 5.2 meters.
history
The name of the waiting tree is derived from a waiting room . The first documented mention of a control room in the district of Windecken can be found in the Windecker Kirchbuch in 1593: “Anderssen Margret [is] found dead in the morning in the prison at the castle, where she had been practicing magic for over three weeks; After 2 days on the Herr Rhät Bevelh, the messenger led a bit out to the waiting area and was buried there by him, because even without her there, after short days, she should be led and received her deserved reward ”. The Wartbaum has therefore also served as a place of execution, which is also indicated by the execution of the death sentence against Georg Meißner ("Scheppe-Schorsch") in 1681 on the gallows specially erected on the Wartbaum. According to Carl Henß, the name could also point to the location of a guard tower on Hohe Straße , which could have been built along the street to secure the Roman fort in Marköbel .
The first mention of the Wartbaum can be found in a document dated April 19, 1608, in which the boundaries of the Windecken office are described: “[...] from there [to the right] again to behind the waiting room for the gentleman there is another stone , in which fetch under the Wartbaum there is a stone on both sides, uf the Rostorffer grentz ad dextra out the Wart to Christoph Schäffers acker […] ”. The inscription on a memorial stone on the Wartbaum with the note "Wartbaum - planted around 1600" is based on the first mention. The sandstone block used, with a size of around 300 cm in length and around 68 cm in height with a thickness of 35 cm, is part of the bridge railing over the Katzbach flowing through the wind corners. The stone was erected on the Wartbaum in the 1950s.
In 1640, the Wartbaum was mentioned in a contemporary witness report when the besieged city of Hanau was signaled from there that a relief army was approaching to liberate the city.
On April 12, 1759, the Wartbaum served as a meeting point for the troops of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , who went from the Wartbaum to the battle of Bergen . The troops went into battle from the Wartbaum in vain to liberate the city of Frankfurt am Main , which had been occupied by the French since January 2, 1759.
In 1814, commemorations took place on the Wartbaum on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig , as well as on the 50th anniversary on October 18, 1863.
During the imperial maneuver, numerous princes met on September 6th and 7th, 1897 to observe the maneuver: “In the first days of maneuver [...] the Wartbaum saw a multitude of outstanding princes, military leaders and officers from outside the city: the emperor and the empress von Germany, the King of Saxony, the King and Queen of Italy, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria. Then the Grand Duke Nikolaus Nicolajewitsch of Russia, as well as representatives of the Russian, Austrian, French, English, Italian, Turkish and even Japanese armies. "
In 1958, two more linden trees were planted next to the Wart tree: The Friedenslinde was to commemorate the last Windeck soldier who returned from captivity, Heinrich Muth, who returned on September 28, 1953. A linden tree was also planted to replace the Wart tree. The Friedenslinde fell victim to vandalism in 2003
Current usage
The Wartbaum is part of the Hohe Straße regional park route in the Rhein-Main regional park . As part of the integration of the Wartbaum into the regional park route, the area around the Wartbaum was redesigned: on the forecourt, artistically designed wooden soldiers' figures are reminiscent of the imperial maneuver of 1897, south of the Wartbaum a stylized judge's table reminds of its historical function as a place of execution, and a pyramid of steles reminds us to the commemorations after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig.
Windeck clubs also use the area on the Wartbaum for celebrations (Wartbaum Festival).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natural monuments in the Main-Kinzig district. MKK environmental report (pdf; 74 kB). Main-Kinzig-Kreis, August 2015, accessed on February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Heinrich Quillmann: Around the warden tree. History - Nature - Technology = Museum Booklet No. 6 . Nidderau 2001, p. 14 .
- ↑ a b c Carl Henß: A historical tree in the Hanauer Land. The Wartbäumchen near Windecken . Windecken 1909, p. 3 .
- ↑ a b c Heinrich Quillmann: Around the Wartbaum. History - Nature - Technology = Museum Booklet No. 6 . Nidderau 2001, p. 10 .
- ↑ a b Heinrich Quillmann: Around the Wartbaum. History - nature - technology = museum booklet No. 6 - supplement . Nidderau 2001, p. 3 .
- ↑ The Wartbaum near Windecken (1) The events of 1636 and 1759. Retrieved on February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Carl Henß: A historical tree in the Hanauer Land. The Wartbäumchen near Windecken . Windecken 1909, p. 11-12 .
- ↑ Heinrich Quillmann: Around the warden tree. History - Nature - Technology = Museum Booklet No. 6 . Nidderau 2001, p. 12 .
- ↑ Carl Henß: A historical tree in the Hanauer Land. The Wartbäumchen near Windecken . Windecken 1909, p. 15 .
- ↑ The Wartbaum is supposed to be 1000 years old, FAZ from October 26, 2003. Retrieved February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Board of Directors of the Windecken Singers' Association on the development of the Wartbaum Festival. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on February 21, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 49.4 " N , 8 ° 53 ′ 26.8" E