Rarely is likely the fruit flower so beautiful and lush as this year. After the wet mild Winter and the Queen-the High came just at the right time, to unfold the buds, as it were, over night. Well, a week earlier than usual is also one of the largest cherries areas in Hesse in glorious splendor: As the snow on the 100-acre Site at Friedberg-Ockstadt would, so closed the sea of Flowers on the Sunny South West edge of the Taunus.
This will be for connoisseurs a rare sight, as in the case of the cultivated 40 varieties of otherwise time-varying inflorescences prevail, as well as the degree of maturity between June and the beginning of August differs. Accordingly varied are the plants are. In addition to plantation-style planting, in which the tribes for a simple simplified harvest are kept low, are knotty, decades-old Patriarch of local species. Some of them are Remnants of the real division, not worth a Farming increasingly smaller plots of land and, therefore, the tree maintenance.
the beginnings of The Ockstädter cherries culture until the late 18th century. Century back, when the then local Lordships, Gottfried of and to Franck stone of potatoes in a kind of earlier structure measure in the first place and then introduced the delicious fruit, after the American independence in the processing of cotton in the Wetterau had disappeared. Today, almost everyone Ockstädter has a fruit tree plot, even if only a few operate the cultivation as main occupation. Mainly supply to super markets and stalls for the season. The harvesting of approximately 42,000 trees will be sold.
Not only thanks to the foresight of structural policy Ockstadt will be marked up today by the Look of the Franck Steiner. Your to 15. A century back, to the Baroque, heavily modified water castle forms the middle of the town and has become since the buy-back of descendants in 1998 to a piece of jewelry. Building, Park-like courtyard and the striking street projecting round bastions are handsomer than ever.
The rich immediate sex by the way, the Reformation denied. Ockstadt remained as the only municipality of the Wetterau, always a Catholic. What is still in the early 20th century. Century, demonstrative with the construction of the twin towers, visible from afar, St. James Church was attested in the neo-Baroque style with art Nouveau elements.
directions:
Hiking is allowed in the state of Hesse, as long as the Corona ordinances of the country are complied with. The tour of the Ockstädter cherries Paradise begins in the historic core to the bus stop castle. (You can Park at the best of born alley shortly after the entrance to the town. The roundel-like towers of the high castle wall passing, it is Bach and born lane to the monumental James Church.
