page_title: Donar's Oak
hierarchical_section_title: Donar's Oak
caption_attribution_description: With an axe in one hand, Winfrid (later Saint Boniface) holds a white crucifix over the fallen Thor's Oak while one of his attendants pray and the other solemnly holds an axe. The Chatti, a Germanic tribe, look on.
context_page_description: Donar's Oak was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now the region of Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Saint Boniface and his retinue cut down the tree earlier the same century. Wood from the oak was then reportedly used to build a church at the site dedicated to Saint Peter. Sacred trees and sacred groves were widely venerated by the Germanic peoples.
context_section_description: Donar's Oak (also Thor's Oak or, via interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now the region of Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Saint Boniface and his retinue cut down the tree earlier the same century. Wood from the oak was then reportedly used to build a church at the site dedicated to Saint Peter. Sacred trees and sacred groves were widely venerated by the Germanic peoples.
caption: "Bonifacius" (1905) by Emil Doepler
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