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The twelve apostle beech was a well-known red beech on the island of Vilm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
location
The tree, sometimes only referred to as the apostle beech , was located on the Großer Vilm in the northern part of the island on the way from the Green Mountain to the highest point of the island.
Shape and history
Alfred Haas measured the common beech and determined a trunk circumference of six meters at a height of 35 meters. The tree was already described by Carl Gustav Carus , who visited the island in 1819. He stated that the beech was near an ancient oak and that the branches of the common beech were "richly burdened with abundance of leaves, hanging like an arbor down to the lawn around the old trunk".
The tree was particularly striking because it gave the impression that it had grown together from several individual trees. In fact, there is a legend according to which the trunk of the beech grew from twelve beech trees standing close together. This gave the tree its name.
The tree fell over in the 1950s. The age was estimated to be around 500 years.
literature
- Norbert Buske , Vilm - The story of an island , thomasius verlag 1994, page 34 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Buske , Vilm - The story of an island , thomasius Verlag 1994, page 8 f.
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 38 " N , 13 ° 32 ′ 22.9" E