Thick oak (Hopsten)

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Thick oak in the yard

The thick oak in Hopsten in Tecklenburger Land is a pedunculate oak that stands as a single tree on the Brockmöller farm on Recker Straße . Their age is estimated to be around 400 years. It is probably the oldest tree in the Steinfurt forest district and one of the oldest trees in all of Westphalia . In 1904, at a height of 25 m, it had a crown diameter of 27 and a trunk circumference of 7.30 m. As early as 1926 it was entered in the list of remarkable trees with a height of 33 meters and a crown diameter of 34 meters. The circumference at a height of 1.30 meters was given as 7.50 meters. The German Tree Archives determined in 2000 at the point of the smallest diameter (waist) a circumference of 8.43 and in 2003 at one meter height of 8.58 meters. In 2014 the waist circumference was 8.71 meters, with a height of 24 meters. The tree is popularly known as the thick oak or the Brockmöller oak . The pedunculate oak is designated as a natural monument I. E1 in the Steinfurt district.

Numerous legends and stories entwine around the tree. After the feud between the Count of Tecklenburg and the Prince-Bishop of Münster Otto IV von Hoya in 1400, Count Nikolaus II had to hand over Hopsten to the Prince-Bishop. In revenge for the lost war, he sold Brockmöller, which until then had operated a mill and belonged to Recke, to the Bishop of Münster. He then dug the water from the Hopstener Aa for the miller , who now belongs to Hopsten , in order to build a new mill a few meters upstream . The Brockmöller had to close his mill and became a farmer.

There is a legend about the tragic death of a Swedish soldier near the oak from the time of the Thirty Years' War .

The St. Dionysius parish from Recke held its emergency services under the oak a few meters behind the local border after the Reformation of the Upper County of Lingen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Lippert in Monumentale Eichen : Brockmöllers Eiche bei Hopsten , accessed on January 20, 2019
  2. ↑ Baumkunde.de : Brockmöllers Eiche bei Hopsten , accessed on January 20, 2019
  3. ↑ Bernd Ullrich, Stefan Kühn, Uwe Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees: Exclusively from the German Tree Archives . 2nd revised edition. BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8354-0957-6 , p. 196 .
  4. ↑ Brockmöller's Oak in the Monumental Oaks Directory . Retrieved January 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Regulatory authority ordinance for designation outside the scope of the development plans and the built-up districts of natural monuments in the area of ​​the Steinfurt district. (PDF) In : kreis-steinfurt.de. March 14, 2012, accessed November 12, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  E