Millennial oak (Sandsee Castle)
The thousand-year-old oak is a pedunculate oak protected as a natural monument near Sandsee Castle , a district of the market town of Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .
The tree stands around 800 meters east of the castle on a plain in the forest, near a clearing lined with poplar trees above the village of Mischelbach at an altitude of 468 meters above sea level .
Contrary to its name, the thousand-year-old oak is estimated to be 350 years old. As of 2017, it has a height of 28 meters, a chest height of 6.60 and a waist circumference of 6.46 meters. The trunk is marked by age: the bark is missing on two sides up to a height of 2 meters and rot can be seen. The trunk dissolves at a height of about 3 meters and turns into several thick branches. These form the crown, which is 20 meters in diameter.
On the trunk there is a badly weathered portrait of a man and a wooden plaque with the poem: Warmth of your house // the shimmering shadow // roof structure of your house // board of your table // bed in which you sleep // the bread of goodness / / the flower of beauty .
Web links
- Location of the oak in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- Millennial oak near Sandsee Castle near Mischelbach in the monumental oak directory . Retrieved on 2019-21-08
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographic maps ( BayernAtlas ) of the Bavarian land surveying office
- ↑ Thousand-year-old oak near Sandsee Castle near Mischelbach in the monumental oak directory . Retrieved on 2019-21-08
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '0.7 " N , 11 ° 1' 58" E