Wild dog rose adorns the apse of the Hildesheim Cathedral -- The Legend of the Rose bush, a wild dogrose, goes back to the founding of the Diocese of Hildesheim in 815.
Hildesheim (kathnet) The 1000 year old rose bush at Hildesheim Cathedral has shown its first blumes. The main blooms have been expected for some days.
The legend of the rose bush, a wild dog rose, goes back to the founding of the Hildesheim Cathedral in 815. Written evidence for this goes back 400 years. Eight weeks after the complete destruction of the Hildescheim Cathedral in March 1945, at which the rose bush was also burned, 25 new roots sprouted up from the ruins.
The legend is held that Emperor Ludwig the Pious, a son of Blessed Charlemagne the Great, left his Palace in Elze. From there he went to hunt deer and arrived with his retinue in the area of modern Hildesheim, 18 km from the Elzer Palace. On a quarter of the wood after a successful hunting party, he struck up a tent and celebrated Mass. At that time a relic was taken from the village chapel and taken with. Upon returning to the Palace he remembered the village chaplain, that he had forgotten the reliquary in a nearby bush. He hurried back and found the priceless reliquary, from which, despite all of his efforts, could not take from the thick wild branches of the dog rose.
The Emperor recognized "clear divine will" and built on the place in honor of Our Lady, to build a chapel. He built the chapel amid the branches of the rosebush. Today this rose bush enraps the eastern apse of the Chathedral and has been famously known as the "Thousand Year Rose Bush" ever since. On the place where Ludwig the Pious built the Mary Chapel and where the Diocese of Hildesheim was found by Bishop Altfrid (851-874) in 852 was placed the keystone of the first Cathedral. After the destruction of the Cathedral by fire in year 1046, Bishop Hezilo (1054-1079) rebuilt and consecrated the second Cathedral in 1061. On 22 March 1945, this Cathedral was completely destroyed. The rose bush was unearthed from under deep rubble and began to bloom anew.
The 1000 Year old rose bush in Hildesheim belongs botanically to the local wild rose species canina L., is also not of the "historical roses" like rosa alba L. or rosa gallica L. It has tender rose blooms.
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