Förster Beck oak

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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 43.8 "  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 55.2"  E

Map: Hessen
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Förster Beck oak​
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The Förster-Beck-Oak is a natural monument in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park , where several old oaks are named after deserving foresters .

The striking oak - an English oak ( Quercus robur L.) or "German Oak" - named after the 1873 Bringhausen born Förster Wilhelm Beck, who from 1914 until his retirement in 1939 in the forest district did Hundsdorf service.

It is located about 400 m southeast of Hundsdorf , a district of Bad Wildungen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . The tree is located 1.5 km southwest of the Berthold oak on the opposite edge of the same forest. It was planted around 1816 (± 30). It is about 13 meters high and its trunk has a circumference of 4.58 m at a height of 1.30 m.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. the Schnitzer oak east of Braunau ( 51 ° 4 '41.9 "  N , 9 ° 9' 11.9"  E ) and the Berthold oak about 1.6 km northeast of Hundsdorf on the edge of the forest south of the confluence of the District road K 43 on federal road 253 ( 51 ° 5 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 47.2 ″  E ).
  2. ↑ Pedunculate oak 'Förster-Beck-Eiche'

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