Village oak in Dötlingen
The village oak in Dötlingen is a natural monument in the municipality of Dötlingen in the Lower Saxon district of Oldenburg in Germany .
description
The village oak is located in the center of Dötlingen, near the St. Firminus Church and the Tabkenhof, the largest Lower Saxony house in northwest Germany. The oak is only a trunk fragment about four meters high with two branches. The trunk has a circumference of 6.70 meters.
history
Originally the village oak, the age of which is given in tourist documents as (over) 1000 years, but experts as 500 to 600 years, had a height of 15 meters with a crown circumference of 14 meters. After a storm in 1980, only one torso is left.
literature
- Village oak in Dötlingen. In: Hans Joachim Fröhlich : Paths to old trees. WDV Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt am Main, Volume 5 - Lower Saxony (no year), p. 67 (No. 16); ISBN 3-926181-20-6
See also
Web links
Commons : Dorfeiche Dötlingen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- "Huntepadd, the Dötlinger village oak and the Tabkenhof"
- Village oak in Dötlingen on monumentale-eichen.de, accessed on December 1, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 8 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 50.5 ″ E