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Hartenstein

The Hollow Linden (Legendary Hollow Linden Tree)

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The Hollow Linden (Legendary Hollow Linden Tree)

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The Hollow Linden (Legendary Hollow Linden Tree)

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    January 2, 2021

    A soldier got stuck there and died. The skeleton, the uniform and the saber were found.

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      Say "Die Huhle Lind"
      At this point there used to be a mighty linden tree, around which a legend is entwined:
      "Die huhle Lind"
      The soul of the hard-hearted "Wild Count" (probably Ernst II. Von Schönburg), which found no rest after his death, is said to have been banished to this tree. Here it rumbled for a few years.
      When a storm uprooted the linden tree at the end of the 19th century, forest workers found a skeleton with a soldier's saber and uniform in the hollow trunk. Presumably a deserted recruit from the war of 1756 had hidden in the hollow trunk and could no longer get out.
      Certainly he called and for a few days
      knocked before he finally died of hunger and exhaustion. Lonely forest walkers will have believed in a "ghost" and anxiously walked on.

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          Location: Hartenstein, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany

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