Bolesław oak
The Bolesław oak [ bɔ'lɛswaf- ] was a pedunculate oak that grew in the Kolberg city forest in the Gmina Ustronie Morskie (rural community Henkenhagen) , about 15 km southeast of Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) . The circumference measured at chest level (1.3 m above the ground) was last 691 cm, the height 32 m and the diameter of the crown 20 m.
The oak was recognized as one of the oldest natural monuments in Poland. Their age was determined to be 800 years. Previously, the Chrobry oak in Lower Silesia, at 740 years old, was considered the oldest oak in Poland. The most famous oak in Poland, the Bartek oak from Bartków, is 670 years old.
On August 19, 2000 the oak was named Bolesław oak . In this way they remembered King Bolesław I. Chrobry , the first king of Poland, at whose instigation in 1000 Reinbern founded a diocese in Kołobrzeg.
In German times the oak was already a sight, but it did not yet have a special name. On a map of the Kolberger Stadtwald from the 1930s she is as “600 years old. Oak "registered.
At the end of May 2016, the oak was knocked over by a storm. It remains in place as a tourist attraction.
Not far from the Bolesław oak in the Kolberg city forest stands the perhaps 640 year old Warcisław oak .
Web links
- Information on the Bolesław oak on the municipal website (Polish)
Footnotes
Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 15 ° 41 ′ 43.1 ″ E