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The improved chestnut trees with their far unloading crown, are probably coming originally from the countries of the Caucasus, the mountainous areabetween the Black and the Caspian Sea. The old Armenians had them cultivated and designated the delicious fruits as “Kasutah”, the Persian wordfor “dry fruit”.<\/p>\n
The Romans called it “Castanea”, which the British botanic Miller extended 1759 with “sativa”. This means “satisfying” and documents the culinary esteem. From then on the European chestnut carries the botanic designation “Castanea sativa” and dissociates itself thereby clearly from the horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum).<\/p>\n
The Romans were not only by the fruit very inspired but also by the wood, which was suitable for weather-proof buildings because of its high content of tannin. Since chestnut trees still grow on a height of 1000 m above sealevel, the cultivation of chestnut trees was almost suited.<\/p>\n
With the expansion of the Roman emporium the chestnut culture spread aswell. The powerful chestnut trees even struck roots on the north side of the alps. The German term “Marone” was introduced around 1600, taken from the French “marron” and Italian “marrone”.<\/p>\n
In south Switzerland the chestnut culture was established approximately 1000 years ago. The growth of middle temperature favoured the cultivationup in to the upper alpine valleys. On these meagre grounds hardly any cereal had a chance to grow. Chestnut trees on the meagre side hills of the alps provided twice or three times as much calories per cultivated unit than cereal cultivation. That is why the name “bread-tree of the poor” was introduced.
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The improved chestnut trees with their far unloading crown, are probably coming originally from the countries of the Caucasus, the mountainous areabetween the Black and the Caspian Sea. The old Armenians had them cultivated and designated the delicious fruits as “Kasutah”, the Persian wordfor “dry fruit”. The Romans called it “Castanea”, which the British botanic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
Die veredelten Kastanienb\u00e4ume mit weit ausladender Kronestammen stammen wahrscheinlich aus den L\u00e4ndern des Kaukasus, dem gebirgigen Gebiet zwischen schwarzem Meer und kaspischem Meer. Die alten Armenier hatten sie kultiviert und die k\u00f6stlichen Fr\u00fcchte mit \u201eKasutah\u201c bezeichnet, dem persischen Wort f\u00fcr \u201etrockene Frucht\u201c.<\/p>
Die R\u00f6mer nannten sie dann \u201eCastanea\u201c, die der britische Botaniker Miller 1759 um das Wort \u201esativa\u201c erweiterte. Dies bedeutet so viel wie \u201es\u00e4ttigen\u201c und dokumentiert die kulinarische Wertschatzung. Seither tr\u00e4gt die europ\u00e4ische Kastanie die botanische Bezeichnung \u201eCastanea sativa\u201c und distanziert sich damit deutlich von der Rosskastanie (Aesculus hippocastanum).<\/p>
Die R\u00f6mer waren nicht nur von der Frucht so begeistert, sondern auch vom Holz, das sich wegen dem hohen Gehalt an Tannin auch f\u00fcr Witterungsbest\u00e4ndige Bauten eignete. Da die Kastanienb\u00e4ume auch bei einer H\u00f6he von 1000 M\u00fcM noch wachsen, war der Anbau von Marroni-B\u00e4umen geradezu pr\u00e4destiniert.<\/p>
Mit der Ausdehnung des r\u00f6mischen Reiches verbreitete sich auch die Kastaninkultur. Auch n\u00f6rdlich der Alpen schlugen die m\u00e4chtigen Kastanienb\u00e4ume Wurzeln. Der deutsche Begriff \u201eMarone\u201c hat sich um 1600 eingeb\u00fcrgert, entlehnt aus dem franz\u00f6sischen \u201emarron\u201c und dem italienischen \u201emarrone\u201c.<\/p>
In der S\u00fcdschweiz etablierte sich die Kastanienkultur vor rund 1000 Jahren. Die Zuname der mittleren Temperatur beg\u00fcnstigte den Anbau bis in die oberen alpinen T\u00e4lern. Auf diesen Kargen Schollen wuchs kaum genug Getreide f\u00fcrs t\u00e4gliche Brot. In Tat und Wahrheit lieferten Kastanienb\u00e4ume auf den mageren Seitenh\u00e4ngen der Alpen zwei bis dreimal mehr Kalorien pro kultivierte Einheit als der Getreidebau. Darum der Name \u201eDer Brotbaum der Armen\u201c<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-873","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/873\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strazzini-marroni.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}