Leipheimer Linde

The Leipheimer Linde is a perennial winter linden tree in the town of Leipheim in the Swabian district of Günzburg . It has a trunk circumference of 10.5 meters.

The Leipheimer Linde survived a fire in 1979. In December 1999, the orcan of the century Lothar caused a several meter long crack in the trunk. In November 2007, the tree could only be preserved by a radical crown securing cut, in which it was shortened from 30 meters to 8 meters. The city council's decision to rescue it at the time corrected a previous felling decision, which had been based on the classification of the tree as irredeemable due to a fungal attack.

In 2015 the circumference was 10.32 m and the height 13 m.

literature

• Michel Brunner : Important linden trees: 400 giant trees in Germany. Haupt Verlag, ISBN 978-3258072487

Web links

• Entry Leipheimer Linde on the side of the city of Leipheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan and Uwe Kühnert: Germany's old trees 2015. German tree archive , Dumont-Verlag, June sheet
2. ^ Entry Leipheimer Linde on the site of the city of Leipheim ; accessed on February 14, 2016
3. ↑ heo: Now after all: Leipheimer Linde should be preserved . to Augsburger Allgemeine from September 14, 2007 ; accessed on February 14, 2016
4. ^ Leipheim in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 31, 2017
5. ^ Entry of the tree at monumentaltrees.com ; accessed on February 14, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '27.2 "  N , 10 ° 13' 4.9"  E