Imperial Oak (Füttersee)
The imperial oak (also called Karlseiche ) stands on a meadow at the edge of the forest above the small village of Füttersee , a district of Geiselwind . The pedunculate oak is one of the oldest solitary trees in Germany.
history
According to legend, Charlemagne is said to have rested under the oak on one of his trips. According to another legend, the tree is said to have been planted in the time of Charlemagne, from which the oak later got its name. According to another description, Emperor Barbarossa is said to have once made a decision in favor of the farmers against the Abbot of Ebrach at the oak . According to these legends, the tree would be around 1200 years old. The shape and especially the bark features, however, indicate an age of 600 to 800 years; other sources speak of 400 to 500 years. In any case, the oak is considerably strong and old.
description
What is striking about the pedunculate oak is the powerful trunk with the above-ground roots. The roots are laid out like supports above the ground and only then penetrate into the ground. In the bottom area, the oak has a trunk circumference of 17.4 meters. The shaft is free of knots up to a height of six meters. The hollowed-out cut surfaces of earlier side branches are visible in this area, but also some dead spots. These sections have not contributed to the growth in thickness for a long time. Based on the wound closure of the truncated main branches, the branches were probably cut more than 40 years ago. The oak is in full vitality and has hardly changed compared to the images from 1980. The trunk circumference at a height of one meter was 7.92 meters in 2001. At the point of its smallest diameter, the trunk currently has a circumference of 7.6 meters. The height of the oak is 35 and the crown diameter is 27 meters. The loosely spherical crown is built harmoniously, although some branches are missing in the lower part. It is formed from predominantly slimmer branches. Hurricane Fabienne hit the oak at full speed on September 23, 2018. About half of the crown has broken off.
Trunk area of the imperial oak
Root area of the imperial oak
The destruction after Hurricane Fabienne
See also
literature
- Bernd Ullrich, Stefan Kühn, Uwe Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees: Exclusively from the German Tree Archives . BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0376-5 , p. 289 .
- Stefan Kühn, Bernd Ullrich, Uwe Kühn: Germany's old trees. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Munich Vienna Zurich, Munich 2002, page 133, ISBN 3-405-16107-X .
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich : Old lovable trees in Germany. Cornelia Ahlering Verlag, Buchholz 2000, pages 284–285, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 .
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Paths to old trees - Volume 2, Bavaria. Widi-Druck, Offenbach 1990, page 60, ISBN 3-926181-09-5 .
- Hartwig Goerss: Our tree veterans. Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1981, pages 110–111, ISBN 3-7842-0247-0 .
Web links
- Oak at altebaeume.de
- Imperial oak in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 59 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 3 ″ E