Plane tree in the basement garden

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The big tree in Dirmstein, in the background the mansion of the cellar garden

Officially plane tree in the basement garden , on site only Dicker Baum or - in the local dialectDicker Baam is the name of a natural monument with the list number ND-7332-517 in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein , the highest tree of which is the plane tree .

Geographical location

The tree stands in the south of the upper village near the Kellergarten park at a height of about 102  m . A few meters outside of its southern corner, which is formed by the former mansion belonging to the park , the plane tree stands on the other side of Bleichstrasse on the left bank of the Eckbach . A bridge over the Affenstein road leads west of the tree and a wooden footbridge for pedestrians to the east. A hexagonal wooden bench, renovated in 1999, is attached around the trunk.

Size and age

The tree has a height of more than twenty and a trunk circumference of a good six meters. It was probably planted when the basement garden was created , which was created around 1790 as an English landscape garden by the landscape architect Friedrich Ludwig Sckell on behalf of the local aristocratic family Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler . The first plane trees had been imported to Germany less than half a century earlier . The age of the tree should therefore be over 200 years.

References and comments

  1. Nature Conservation Administration Rhineland-Palatinate: Landscape Information System of the Nature Conservation Administration Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved September 19, 2013 .
  2. The names Oberdorf and Niederdorf for the two settlement centers of the municipality are derived from the location above and below at the Eckbach , which flows through Dirmstein from west to east.
  3. Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '39.4 "  N , 8 ° 14' 50.2"  E