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Natural PlacesSite Name: Freistuhl an der Femlinde Alternative Name: Vehmlinde, Dortmunder FreistuhlCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 0.566 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Dortmund
Latitude: 51.516718N Longitude: 7.461323E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The age of the site is unknown. It could have possibly already have been used as Germanic thing site, as discussed for the still existing Femeiche in Raesfeld or the destroyed Femlinde in Bochum.
The original localisation was near the Westenpforte gate outside of the city wall. When this part of the wall was deconstructed, the court site was moved to the Burgpforte gate in 1545.
The vehmic court was active until 1803. When the railway station was planned, the Femlinde was excavated and implanted at a new site (40 m to the South) in 1910. Unfortunately, the tree did not survive this procedure.
Two young lime trees were planted at this new site. The lime trees and the original stone table and stone seats were destroyed by bombing in 1944.
A memorial was built to commemorate the site. It consists of six boulders that symbolise the seats of the judge and the jury as well as a stone table with the engraved information about the site. This memorial site does not look like the original stone setting. After it was moved again in 1953, it finally was placed at is current localization in 1973 (see coordinates at the top of the page).
A small oil painting by Carl Heinrich Beichling from 1872 can be seen in the
Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund.
It is interesting to note, that several scions had been taken from the original trees before they were excavated. These scions were sent to Barmen (now a part of Wuppertal), Witten, Bremen, Detmold, Leipzig and New York.
Literature:
[01] Loge zur Alten Linde (Hrsg.): Vom Lindenbaum am Königshof (Webpage).
[02] Meyer-Kahrweg, R.: Denkmäler, Brunnen und Plastiken in Wuppertal (1991).
[03] Strothmann, K.-H. (Hrsg.): Dortmunder Stadtgeschichte im Spiegel alter Ansichtskarten (1977).
[04] Höfken, G.: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Gerichtswesens in Bochum Stadt und Land in älterer Zeit. In: Heimatbücher – 2. Heimatbuch 1927 (1927).
[05] Kaemmel, O.: Deutsche Geschichte - Erster Teil (1911).
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