Frederick oak
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 40 ″ E
The Friederike Oak is a natural monument in the Lower Saxony municipality of Hude in the Oldenburg district .
description
The English oak is located in about 20 kilometers east of Oldenburg located Hasbruch , one with nature standing oaks - and hornbeam forests . Here it is located in the western part on Friederikenpadd , which is between Hohenbökener Weg and Liebesallee . Its trunk has a circumference of 8.11 meters and branches at a height of about 1 meter. The chest height is 7.81 m (2014).
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history
With an estimated age of 1200 years, the Friederikeneiche is the oldest living oak in Hasbruch today and is considered the oldest tree in Lower Saxony. Their peculiar growth is due to an old form of livestock farming, forest pasture . The cattle that were driven into the Hasbruch in the Middle Ages also nourished themselves there on the shoots and buds of the regrowing trees.
Naming
The Friederike oak and the Amalia oak , which fell in 1982, are likely to have got their names in the first half of the 19th century. Both were named after the daughters Friederike and Amalie of Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August (1783-1853).
See also
Web links
- Friederiken-Eiche im Hasbruch , accessed on July 12, 2015
- Baumkunde - Friederikeneiche in Hasbruch near Hude , accessed on July 12, 2015