Boxhohn oak (Wahner Heide)

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Boxhohn oak in May 2008.
Overturned Boxhohn oak in July 2020. On the right the newly planted memorial oak.

The boxhohn oak , also called 1000-year-old oak, was a pedunculate oak or German oak and for many years the oldest tree in the Wahner Heide .

Name and location

The pedunculate oak is named after the hamlet of Boxhohn , which disappeared in 1915 due to the expansion of the Wahn shooting range in the Wahner Heide . It was about halfway between Altenrath and the Hasbach residential area in front of Rösrath ; their remains can be reached via a farm road branching off from Hasbacher Strasse to the east.

Age and condition

The tree was certainly not 1000 years old, but "very old". It was probably hollowed out for more than 100 years. The stabilization that took place in the 1930s, by inserting a concrete core reinforced with iron rails, was in a dilapidated and crumbling state in 2011. In the opinion of experts from the Federal Forests division of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks , the Troisdorf Green Space Office and the German Federal Environment Foundation , who looked after this tree and the nature reserve , the tree was stable even without supports. To ward off dangers for hikers, the tree was demarcated by a wooden grille and the path swiveled by so that the tree could still be seen and experienced. Otherwise it was decided to let it die with dignity - nevertheless, the tree was still vital in the following years when its crown emerged. In January 2019 it became known that the oak - probably also as a result of the very dry summer of 2018 - had fallen over. The deadwood should rot on the spot.

memory

On March 23, 2019, a sessile oak was planted next to the rotting corpse , which is supposed to deal better with summer heat and persistent drought.

literature

  • Achim Tüttenberg: The 1,000-year-old oak in Altenrath . In: Troisdorf annual books (TJH) . 2019, p. 4–6 ( geschichtsverein-troisdorf.de [PDF; 9.7 MB ; accessed on May 31, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DBU (ed.): Oak with history - a symbol for the future . February 24, 2012 ( online ( memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) - press release, with a picture of the ailing page).
  2. ↑ Entry on the Thousand-year-old Boxhohn Oak in the Wahner Heide in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on July 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Dieter Krantz: Legendary tree. 1000 year old oak collapsed near Altenrath. In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger. January 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Achim Tüttenberg: The 1,000-year-old oak in Altenrath . In: Troisdorf annual books (TJH) . 2019, p. 4–6 ( geschichtsverein-troisdorf.de [PDF; 9.7 MB ; accessed on May 31, 2020]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '8 "  N , 7 ° 10' 54.9"  E