Yew tree from Hennersdorf

Yew tree from Hennersdorf / Henryków

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The yew from Hennersdorf ( Polish : Cis Henrykowski, Silesian yew vu Hennerschdurf ) is considered the oldest tree in Poland and until 1945 the oldest tree in Germany. It is now supported, in the immediate vicinity of house No. 293 in the village of Henryków Lubański ( Catholic Hennersdorf ), a good 20 km east of Görlitz .

The common yew , declared a natural monument , is even older than the Raciborski yew or the Bartek oak . Their age was calculated to be more than 1,400 years in 1921. The eleven meter high tree lost one of its branches during a hurricane in 1989. Previously the circumference was five meters. Additional security measures have been taken in recent years. So a scaffold was put in place and the irrigation for the yew tree improved.

Individual evidence

↑ The Yew Hennersdorf was in 1911 as the oldest tree in Germany . - Ludwig Reinhardt: Cultural history of useful plants. Volume 2, 1911.
↑ "In Hennersdorf near Görlitz there is a yew tree with a circumference of over five meters and a height of eleven meters, whose age, according to careful calculations, is more than 1400 years." - Dissertation by Demosthenes Jatrides on the distribution of the yew, Zurich, 1921 ( PDF )

51.171508333333 15.218333333333Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 17.43 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 6 ″ E

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[1] The Yew Hennersdorf was in 1911 as the oldest tree in Germany . - Ludwig Reinhardt: Cultural history of useful plants. Volume 2, 1911.

[2] "In Hennersdorf near Görlitz there is a yew tree with a circumference of over five meters and a height of eleven meters, whose age, according to careful calculations, is more than 1400 years." - Dissertation by Demosthenes Jatrides on the distribution of the yew, Zurich, 1921 ( PDF )