Pine from Dresden Heath

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The Pine Dresdner Heide has been a natural monument in the Dresdner Heide since 1985 . The tree, a Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ), has a height of about 25 meters and a trunk circumference of 2.75 meters. The crown diameter is about 12 meters. Its age is estimated at a quarter of a millennium.

Pine, 2017

geography

The tree is in the northeastern urban area of Dresden in the eastern Dresdner Heide. The location is about 60 meters east of the Weißiger Weg between the northern Ochsensteig and the southern Bischofsweg . The tree towers over the surrounding sparse high forest .

At the Sachsenforst state enterprise , this location in the Dresden forest district belongs to the Ullersdorf district, forest division 43.

history

Plaque on the trunk

The tree comes from the middle or second half of the 18th century. Since then, it has survived two rotations , whereby the rotation period for pine forests is usually 80–140 years.

From 1958 to 1975 Karl Jahn (1910–1996) was head of the chief forestry department of Dresdner Heide und Heller. The fact that the Dresdner Heide was designated as a landscape protection area in 1969 is largely due to his instigation . In the 1970s, volunteer conservationists suggested placing the stately pine under protection and naming it as Jahn-Kiefer (or Karl-Jahn-Kiefer ) in honor of the chief forester . The name did not catch on, but in 1985 the Dresden City Council placed several individual trees in the city under protection, including this pine in 32nd position on the list of biological natural monuments .

The protection area around the tree extends under the entire crown and at least 18 meters from the trunk.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d Short documentation of protected areas according to nature conservation law. In: Dresden themed city map. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Memorial for Chief Forester Karl Jahn. (PDF; 0.5 MB) In: Mitteilungen für Hellerau. February 2014, accessed February 11, 2020 (short biography).
  3. ↑ Dresdner Heide near Ullersdorf: On the trail of the historical Heidezeichen. In: piperpit.de - Out and about by bike. November 16, 2019, accessed on February 11, 2020 (with a photo of the jaw and the Karl-Jahn-Kiefer sign attached to it ).
  4. ↑ Decision to protect natural monuments , Council of the City of Dresden, January 3, 1985 ( online as PDF ; 1 MB).

Web links

Commons : Natural monument Kiefer Dresdner Heide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '35.4 "  N , 13 ° 52' 3.8"  E