Baldenhain is a small village on the Thuringian side of the Vogtland with a dance lime local children have turned into a climbing frame. Around 1900 the inn across the road served drinks from a platform built inside its spreading limbs; the platform is gone, but the flat, chalice-shaped crown that carried it is still there. At 8.5 metres round it is one of the thickest and most complete dance limes left standing anywhere in Germany, and it is still under active care.
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Tanzlinde (Baldenhain)
Large-leaved Lime (Tilia platyphyllos) · roughly 400-600 years · Baldenhain, Vogtland/Thuringia border
Around 1900 the inn across the road served drinks from a platform built inside this tree. The flat spread of limbs that carried it is still there, and the village children have taken it over as somewhere to climb, which is a fair summary of what a Tanzlinde is for: a tree trained to be used. Both the regional conservation register and the dendrological survey call this one of the thickest and most complete dance limes left in Germany. The trunk measured 8.5 metres round in April 2024 and was in vital condition; it is hollow, open along one side, and rises into three heavy limbs that spread out like a chalice and rest on props. Its age is put at 400 to 600 years, an estimate from girth rather than a ring count, which is the only option on a trunk with its middle missing. Somebody looks after it. The crown is held by steel cables and textile straps and gets regular attention, and the tree has been protected as a Naturdenkmal since 1978. You find it in the middle of Baldenhain, a small village on the Thuringian side of the Vogtland, standing opposite the fire station on open ground with nothing to pay and nobody to ask.
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