Eiche von Barmstedt, Barmstedt
Facts and practical information
The Oak of Barmstedt, popularly known as the "Thousand-year-old Oak", is a natural monument in Barmstedt, Pinneberg County.
Its location is near the state road 75 at the access to the parking lot at the restaurant "Zum Bootssteg" and the playground at the Rantzauer See.
The English oak has been listed as a natural monument by the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the Pinneberg district with the number 01/03 since December 19, 1997. The age of the oak is given as about 600-650 years. Due to regular tree care, the oak is in a very good condition with only small amounts of deadwood in the crown. The trunk is partially hollowed out and protected from further damage by wire mesh. The tree has a relatively small crown with a diameter of up to 17 meters. The trunk has a circumference of about 6.55 meters at the point of its smallest diameter. Measured at a height of one meter, the trunk circumference is 6.75 meters.
It is one of the striking and old tree specimens in southern Schleswig-Holstein and the oldest natural monument in the district of Pinneberg. It is surpassed only by the Uetersener Blutbuche and the largest and most imposing tree, the "Kocheiche" in the Kummerfelder Gehege.
Barmstedt
Schleswig-Holstein