Village linden in Harbach

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The village linden tree in Harbach is in the municipality of Harbach, a district of Hilders , in the district of Fulda in the Hessian Rhön and is a natural monument . The summer lime tree ( Tilia platyphyllos ) is located about 540 meters above sea ​​level on a small, elevated meadow, enclosed on two sides and sloping, between two intersecting village streets. The linden tree with the identification number 6.31.402 and the name Dorflinde in Harbach is listed as a natural monument by the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the district of Fulda .

description

Open trunk
Trunk view

The trunk is hollow and closed except for a small, crack-like opening. It tapers wide towards the ground and is mossy . At the top the trunk is completely open with branches on the outside that form the crown. A long time ago, the linden tree probably broke off at a height of five meters, after which it has regenerated itself through many trunk growths. Shoots drift up in the cavity. According to tradition, the linden tree was beheaded in the 19th century. The branches were used as sawn timber and made into wooden vessels and troughs. The amount of wood should have been 20  solid cubic meters . The linden tree is in good condition with only a small amount of dead wood in the crown. The round crown sits about four meters high on the trunk. The branches of the linden tree are held together by several steel cables.

The age of the linden tree is estimated to be 400 to 800 years. Since the oldest wood from the center of the trunk is missing, neither annual ring counting nor radiocarbon dating is possible. In 1984 the trunk had a circumference of 1.3 meters at a height of 7.3 meters and in 2007 it was 7.8 meters high. Measurements in 2009 at the point of the smallest circumference (waist) resulted in 7.60 meters. The tree is 23 meters high and has a spherical crown with a diameter of 23 meters.

See also

literature

  • Michel Brunner: Important linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany . Haupt Verlag AG, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07248-7 .
  • Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Paths to old trees, Volume 1, Hessen . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-06-0 .
  • Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Hessen . Pro Terra, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-924990-00-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Hessen . Pro Terra, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-924990-00-X , p. 128 .
  2. ↑ a b Michel Brunner : Significant linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany . Haupt Verlag AG, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07248-7 , p. 159 .
  3. ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Germany . Buchholz, Ahlering 2000, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 , pp. 22 .
  4. ↑ Michel Brunner: Significant linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany . Haupt Verlag AG, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07248-7 , p. 316 .
  5. ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Paths to old trees, Volume 1, Hessen . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-06-0 , p. 74 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 26 ″  E