Irrhain (german: Irrhain) — is a small landscape-ecological and cultural-historical

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

within the Nuremberg agglomeration. It is located north of the city's airport on lands bearing the historical name «Knoblauchland» — «Garlic Field», where farms are located that largely provide the city with fresh vegetables.Gang durch den Irrhain. Pegnesischer Blumenorden e.V.
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History

The ecological significance of the reserve is expressed in the fact that it is a piece of forest that has been preserved in its natural form, which is especially important due to the fact that most of the German forests are the result of artificial planting of coniferous trees, while originally they were formed by deciduous trees. Some specimens of the trees have died and are reported by stationary signs to be a fall hazard. However, they are not removed because they are the natural habitat of insects. The safety of the place is also connected with the fact that in

1676 Events January–March * January 29 – Feodor III of Russia, Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. * January 31 – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the oldest institution of higher education in Central America, is fo ...

from the banks of the Pegnitz, now within the city limits, moved the «

Pegnesischer Blumenorden The (English: Pegnitz Flower Society; Latin: ; abbr. P.Bl.O.) is a German literary society that was founded in Nuremberg in 1644. It is the sole Baroque literary society that remains active today. The name derived from the river Pegnitz, which f ...

» — an association of writers who support the style of their writings in the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style. The association still exists and poetic holidays are organized here in the summer.Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung: Edelleute im Pegnesischen Blumenorden
/ref> Initially, the circle of poets around Georg Philipp Harsdörfer and Johann Clay, who founded the flower order in 1644, met in the so-called poetic grove near Weidenmühle, a peninsula formed by the old waters of the Pegnitz. After the owner of the property made the place inaccessible with a fence, the participants gathered at the Half Moon house, which was owned by Andreas Ingolstetter. In order to be able to cultivate poetry close to nature again, Kraftshof's pastor Martin Limburger proposed to the then head of the order, Sigmund von Birken, in 1676, to create a new meeting place in an overgrown oak grove near the village of Kraftshof. Limburger developed the concept of a talking garden, he understood the "mad forest" as a symbol of the "world's crazy forest", which corresponded to the then pietistic spirit. The work was completed in 1678, and in 1681 the Forest Alms Authority on the Sebalder side of the city confirmed to the Order of the Flowers that it had received "Irraine" as a perpetual fief.

Description

The main entrance to the reserve is decorated in the form of a stone arch in the architectural style of the Baroque, behind which begins an alley leading to a forested area, on which monuments associated with the names of members of the order are installed. There is also a hut in which writers gathered.

Gallery

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References

Bibliography

* Winter, Sascha: ''Arkadische Memoria um 1700. Kollektives Totengedenken des Pegnesischen Blumenordens im Irrhain bei Nürnberg.'' In: Annette Dorgerloh, Michael Niedermeier, Marcus Becker, Annette Dorgerloh (Hgg.): ''Grab und memoria im frühen Landschaftsgarten.'' Wilhelm Fink, München 2015, S. 117–151, . * Wiegel, Helmut: ''Der Irrhain des Pegnesischen Blumenordens.'' In: Die Gartenkunst 5 (2/1993), S. 293–306. * Hermann Rusam: ''Der Irrhain des Pegnesischen Blumenordens zu Nürnberg. Des löblichen Hirten- und Blumen-Ordens an der Pegnitz Irrwald bei Kraftshof''. Altnürnberger Landschaft e.V. — Korn & Berg, Nürnberg 1983, 83 S., zahlr. Ill., (Schriftenreihe der Altnürnberger Landschaft; 33) * Hermann Kern: ''Labyrinthe. Erscheinungsformen und Deutungen. 5000 Jahre Gegenwart eines Urbilds.'' München 1982 . Aufl. 1995 S. 383. * ''Valeria Sokolova''. Nürnberg und Nürnberger. 2011 Ekaterina Müller Medienagentür & Ubersetzungsbüro. Nürnberg * ''Karin Lucke.Franken''.Köln: DuMont Buchverlag. 1994. {{ISBN, 3-7701-3413-3

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