Millennial oak (Schloss Nagel)

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1000 year old oak in Küps-Nagel

The millennial oak is a natural monument in the Küps market in Upper Franconia . The pedunculate oak stands on a steep slope on the outer fence of the Alte Kemenate Castle in the Nagel district. The moated castle was built at the beginning of the 15th century.

history

It has been designated a natural monument by ordinance since 1936 under the Reich Nature Conservation Act (RNG) . The location of the oak is said to be an old Germanic thing place . Originally four oaks are said to have stood there, facing the four cardinal directions and equidistant from one another. There is an old trade and military route nearby, which supports this assumption, as the thing places were mostly located near busy trade routes. The street connected Berlin with Munich and in this section corresponded to today's federal highway 173 .

There are still lead balls and bolts from the Thirty Years' War in the oak . The Swedish equestrian general Lennart Torstensson besieged the castle for several months without success. The castle was shot at and the oak was also hit.

In March 2020, the oak was added to the list of national heritage trees as the fourth tree .

description

The bark of the oak protrudes up to ten centimeters like a board. The deep grooves in the bark pull up to the tip of the crown. This indicates old age. The oak has pronounced roots that lead far away from the tree on the steep slope. The oak has a beautiful, long, straight trunk that reaches up about 15 meters unbranched. The high crown is about 27 meters high and has a diameter of about 25 meters. The wood mass of the oak is estimated at 80  stere , which makes it one of the most massive oaks in Europe.

In 1989 the trunk had a circumference of 9.30 meters at a height of one meter, in 2001 at the point of its smallest diameter it was 9.01 meters and in 2000 the circumference at one meter was 9.53 meters. Near the ground, the oak has a circumference of twelve meters. In 1999, the trunk had a circumference of 1.3 meters, the so-called breast height diameter (BHD), a circumference of 9.10 meters. This makes the oak one of the strongest in Germany. Their age is stated differently in the literature, sometimes with 1000 years, which seems too high; in the latest literature 450 to 600 years are mentioned.

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 .
  • Stefan Kühn, Bernd Ullrich, Uwe Kühn: Germany's old trees . 5th expanded edition. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8354-0183-9 .
  • Jeroen Pater: Europe's old trees: their stories, their secrets . Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-440-10930-5 (Translated from the Dutch by Susanne Bonn).
  • Christian Pakenham: Trees: The 72 largest and oldest trees in the world . Christian Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88472-673-0 .
  • Anette Lenzing: Court linden trees and thing places in Germany . Langewiesche KR, Heiligenhaus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-4520-3 .
  • Hans Joachim Fröhlich : Old lovable trees in Germany. Cornelia Ahlering Verlag, Buchholz 2000, pages 274–275, ISBN 3-926600-05-5 .
  • Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Volume 2, Bavaria . In: Paths to old trees . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-09-5 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Millennial Oak  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Millennial oak in the Monumental Oak Directory . Retrieved January 10, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anette Lenzing: Judicial linden trees and Thingplaces in Germany . Langewiesche KR, Heiligenhaus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-4520-3 , p. 51 .
  2. ↑ National Heritage Trees , accessed May 17, 2020.
  3. ↑ "1000-year old oak in Nagel near Küps" Nationalerbe-Baum, at nationalerbe-baeume.de
  4. ↑ Millennial oak. Retrieved June 16, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b 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 .
  6. ↑ Jeroen Pater: Europe's Old Trees: Their Stories, Their Secrets . Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-440-10930-5 , p. 78 (Translated from the Dutch by Susanne Bonn).
  7. ^ Hans Joachim Fröhlich: Volume 2, Bavaria . In: Paths to old trees . WDV-Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-926181-09-5 , p. 63 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '24.24 "  N , 11 ° 14' 30.66"  O