Giant sequoia near Schotten
The giant sequoia near Schotten is located southwest of the town of Schotten in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse and is a natural monument . The giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ), also known as the mountain sequoia , is located north of the Schotten district of Wingershausen , about one kilometer southeast of the Niddastausees and west of the Vogelsberg in the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park . It stands 315 meters above sea level on an approximately 100 by 60 meter large, north-sloping open space in the upper Läunsbach aisle within a forest area in the former Läunsbachkamp plant garden . The Sauberg nature trail leads past the sequoia tree and begins and ends on the banks of the Nidda reservoir. In the immediate vicinity there is a historical information board about the sequoia tree from the 1960s and a current information board.
history
The sequoia tree was in the spring of 1900 by the forester Carl Schott sr. on the occasion of the birth of his son Carl Schott jr. planted. The young plant came from the Gießen Botanical Garden and was bred by Oberforster Walther, head of the Griesheim Forestry Office at the time . He had received the seeds from the Darmstadt tree nursery in Appel from the plant collector Carl Albert Purpus , who allegedly collected them for the Darmstadt Botanical Garden , where his brother Joseph Anton had been gardening inspector since 1888, in dry forests at higher altitudes in the Sierra Nevada . That may have been the reason why the seedlings survived the harsh Scottish climate. In the winter of 1928/1929 the temperatures there dropped to -23.6 ° C, in the winter of 1941/1942 to -24.4 ° C. Seedlings that come from deeper regions of the United States are mostly vulnerable to frost in Germany.
description
The sequoia tree has a perfectly evenly grown trunk that begins wide at the ground, tapers evenly and is completely knot-free up to about ten meters in height, and a narrow, conical crown about 35 meters high. After the dry winter of 2007/2008 and the subsequent dry and excessively warm spring, the tip fell dry and died. This can also be observed in other sequoia trees in Germany that suffered from severe drought. The trees then formed a second peak, which over time reached higher than the dead one. In winter 2009/2010 the dead tip broke off in a storm and was thrown to the ground. In 1984 the trunk was 1.3 meters high and 6.65 meters in circumference. It was 35 meters high and the crown was 16 meters in diameter. The amount of wood was given in 1984 as 40 solid meters .
| BHD | height |
|---|---|
| 2.36 m | 37 m |
| 1.50 m | 33 m |
| 1.38 m | 34 m |
| 1.35 m | 33 m |
| 1.17 m | 26 m |
Measurements in 2009 at a height of 1.3 meters showed a circumference of 7.40 and a chest height diameter (BHD) of 2.36 meters. The trunk circumference was 8.25 meters at a height of one meter and 7 meters at a height of 2.5 meters. Directly above the ground, it has a circumference of 11.26 meters. The sequoia is one of the strongest in Germany and, according to the German Tree Archives , for which the trunk circumference at a height of one meter is the most important selection criterion, is one of the nationally significant trees (NBB). However, it is not listed accordingly in the literature. The tree has an enormous growth rate. The trunk circumference of the 110 year old tree in 2010 increases by about seven to eight centimeters annually.
There are three more giant sequoias immediately north of the clearing within the forest, two of them close together at the Heller-Häuschen , a small forest house that used to belong to the old plant garden of the village of Rainrod. These two are believed to date from the 1930s. The three sequoia trees have diameters from 1.35 to 1.50 meters at chest height, measured at a height of 1.3 meters. This lower growth rate compared to the large sequoia is probably due to the fact that they grew up in the forest and were prevented from growing there. The height of the three trees is 33 to 34 meters. A fifth, 26 meter high giant sequoia from the 1960s with a diameter of 1.17 meters at chest height stands on the northeast edge of the clearing.
photos
Trunk view
Two sequoias by the Heller house
Heller house, behind it two sequoias
literature
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich : Old lovable trees in Germany . Cornelia Ahlering Verlag, Buchholz 2000, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 .
- ADAC (Hrsg.): The great ADAC leisure guide: The last paradises . ADAC Verlag GmbH, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-87003-661-3 .
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Volume 1, Hesse . In: Paths to old trees . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-06-0 .
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Hessen . Pro Terra Verlag GmbH, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-924990-00-X .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Hessen . Pro Terra Verlag GmbH, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-924990-00-X , p. 178 .
- ↑ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Old lovable trees in Hessen . Pro Terra Verlag GmbH, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-924990-00-X , p. 180 .
- ↑ liluz: Mammoth trees in Germany - DE-ID1984. Sequoia Community, March 6, 2010, accessed March 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Schotten-Team '09: Mammoth trees in Germany - DE-ID9102. Sequoia Community, March 6, 2010, accessed March 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Schotten-Team '09: Mammoth trees in Germany - DE-ID9104. Sequoia Community, March 6, 2010, accessed March 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Schotten-Team '09: Mammoth trees in Germany - DE-ID9103. Sequoia Community, March 6, 2010, accessed March 9, 2010 .
- ↑ Schotten-Team '09: Mammoth trees in Germany - DE-ID9105. Sequoia Community, March 6, 2010, accessed March 9, 2010 .
- ↑ 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. 13 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 20.5 " N , 9 ° 6 ′ 35.7" E