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History and meaning of the flax-culture

Little, in general usage flax named, one of the oldest culture-plants is.
Two constituents of the Leinpflanze it let itself utilized profitable already in the earliest human cultures:
• the fiber-rich stem to the manufacture of Gespinnsten,
• she/it oils, protein, and seeds phlegm-are enough as food, feed, and drug and suppliers of the Leinöls.

In the Middle ages experienced linen a prime in Europe. In Germany, the flax-cultivation was widespread and the production of tissues sophisticated. For the Handeszentren at the north and Baltic sea, linen-products were important Handeslgüter.
Until end of this 18. Jahrunderts was flax with about. 18 percent of share at the fiber-consumption in Europe the most important plant-fiber and beside wool (about. 78 percent) the most important textile raw material.
In the 19. Jahrundert increasingly lost flax through the strong advancing the cotton at meaning. End of this 19. century, the cotton-share had soared in Europe on 74 percent while the share of sheep-wool declined on 20 percent and at flax by 6 percent.
After him/it 2. world war was hardly still grown flax in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1957, flax appears no more in the official statistics.
Through the discussion about ecologically amicable plant-construction, the flax gained importance again in the 80er years. Today, the share of flax is because of the world-fiber-emergence with about. 2 million. t per year with 2 percent.