Royal oak

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Royal oak

IUCN Category III - Natural Monument or Feature

The royal oak or King George's oak

The royal oak or King George's oak

location at the forester's house Kirchwehren , town of Seelze in the Hanover region
Identifier ND-H 9
Geographical location 52 ° 22 '  N , 9 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '48 "  N , 9 ° 34' 46"  E
Royal Oak (Kirchwehren) (Lower Saxony)
Royal oak
Setup date 1937
management City of Seelze
particularities since 1939 also part of the natural monument "deciduous forest"

The Königseiche , also called König-Georgs-Eiche , is a natural monument near Kirchwehren , a district of Seelze in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It is also part of the “deciduous forest” natural monument in Großer Holz and the deciduous forest nature reserve south of Seelze .

description

Wooden plaque on the royal oak

A former forester's house is located southeast of the village of Kirchwehren on Lenther Strasse on the edge of the Osterholz, the northeast part of the Großer Holz. Friedrich Pieper, the former Hanoverian body forester , had been in office there since 1861 . His wife was a former nanny of the Crown Prince and allegedly had a daughter of King George V.

The former fairground of the village of Kirchwehren was located near the forester's house. A rifle festival was celebrated here in June 1864 . Since the blind King George V and Crown Prince Ernst August attended the festival, a round stone table with benches was set up in the forest opposite the forester's house and a dignified pedunculate oak with the name "King George's Oak" and a cast iron plaque attached to the Should remind posterity of the event. In 1907 the royal oak was 4 meters in circumference. It was part of a stand with some even stronger oaks in the district opposite the forester's house.

After about 100 years, the trunk of the royal oak broke in a storm. The windbreak wood was sawn and recycled. The old plaque was attached to another tree in the surrounding oak. The badge disappeared in the early 1980s. It was replaced by a wooden plaque. The cast-iron plaque found in private ownership years later came to the Seelze Museum of Local History .

Natural monument

With the second ordinance on the safety of natural monuments of the district Hannover from 1937 King George oak was named king oak declared a natural monument. It was also part of the stock of oaks at the forester's house in Kirchwehren, which was to become a natural monument ND-H 22 “deciduous forest” in 1939.

In the 1970s, the name Königseiche was transferred to another tree in this oak stand without the ordinance on the natural monument being repealed. The directory of natural monuments in the district of Hanover from 2001 contains the tree under the descriptive, but not entirely correct name Königseiche (with the inscription "Here stayed on 4.6.1864 King George V of Hanover") .

After the formation of the Hanover region, the city ​​of Seelze made use of the opportunity, as one of the tasks of the lower nature conservation authority , to take over responsibility for natural monuments and thus the new royal oak from the region responsible under the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Act. The royal oak, like all the large wood, has been in the deciduous forest nature reserve south of Seelze since 2019 .

See also

Web links

Commons : King George's Oak  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Tschörner: A forester's house as hush money. www.neuepresse.de , September 17, 2015, accessed on June 27, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b c Norbert Saul: Plaque from the "Königseiche" Kirchwehren 1864. (PDF) In: Finds in the Heimatmuseum Seelze. April 2020, accessed June 27, 2021 .
  3. ↑ The Forester's Office, the Royal Oak and the Prince's Table. In: Dorfchronik Kirchwehren. Retrieved June 27, 2021 .
  4. ↑ a b Oberförsterei Dedensen in: Forstbotanisches Merkbuch. Proof of the noteworthy and unspoilt bushes, trees and stocks in the Kingdom of Prussia - Province of Hanover , Carl Brandes, Hanover 1907, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Ordinance on the safeguarding of natural monuments in the Hanover district of December 28, 1937 (Official Gazette of the Government of Hanover of January 8, 1938, p. 2) , repealed with the 19th Ordinance on Natural Monuments of the Hanover Region (New Regulation Ordinance) , published in: § 10 - Repeal of legislation. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the City of Hanover - Special Edition. Hanover region, October 4, 2010, p. 8 , archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on April 15, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Published in the Official Journal of the Government of Hanover St. 48 v. December 2, 1939 p. 178. According to the Lower Saxony environmental maps , accessed on June 27, 2021.
  7. ↑ Directory of natural monuments in the district of Hanover in accordance with Section 31, Paragraph 1 of the Lower Saxony Nature Conservation Act (status: 06/2001). (PDF) in the regional law collection. 32 Safety and order (pdf; 170.76 kB). (No longer available online.) Hanover region, March 2008, archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; Retrieved January 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ § 161 No. 3 of the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law
  9. ↑ Landscape framework plan of the Hanover region, p. 611, accessed on March 25, 2021.