Tree Rings and Medieval Lübeck, Germany An article by Dieter Eckstein in the February

Tree Rings and Medieval Lübeck, GermanyAn article by Dieter Eckstein in the February 2007 issue of Dendrochronologia called Human time in tree rings describes the variety of possible routes of research available to scholars today. Eckstein, a wood biologist at the University of Hamburg, uses as his example, research into wood buildings and objects from the Medieval town of Lübeck, Germany.The town of Lübeck was founded about 800 AD by Slavic tribes as a rampart in the Schleswig-Holstein area of northern Germany, within the dense beech and oak forests between the North and Baltic seas. The old town of Lübeck was called Liubice, and it is 6 km north of today’s Lübeck; today this place is located amid open farmland. About 350 years later, modern Lübeck was founded on its present location by Germanic tribes, who took the old name Liubice from the Slavic fortification. Lübeck’s medieval history includes several events that are pertinent to the study of tree rings and forests, including laws passed in the late 12th and early 13th century establishing some basic sustainability rules, two devastating fires in 1251 and 1276, and a population crash between about 1340 and 1430 resulting from the Black Death. -- source link

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