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View of the Maas with dead tree stumps and grazing animals

View of the Maas with dead tree stumps and grazing animals

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View of the Maas with dead tree stumps and grazing animals

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Location: Stein, Limburg, Netherlands

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September 12, 2025

In the Meerser Koegriend along the Meuse River, fifteen tree trunks stand, which initially give the impression that a piece of forest has burned down or that the logging was not entirely successful. The truth is quite different.

The tree trunks, some of which are 1,400 to 1,700 years old, are part of a new monument. The fifteen fossilized trees were excavated from beneath the gravel during excavations in Stevensweert. The Ark Foundation, which develops the nature around the Grensmaas river, has, with the support of the province and Maaswerken, the company carrying out the Grensmaas project, ensured that the trees that will form the new monument in the Koegriend in Meers are standing upright and placed in a winding row as a monument to nature along the meandering Meuse river.

The imposing giants, up to two meters thick and up to eight meters long, symbolize the riparian forest that grew here, but also the new forest that will rise on the barren plain left behind by the gravel diggers. They symbolize the power of Mother Nature.

The trunks serve as a compass, calendar, and map. Some mark the four cardinal directions, while others, with their shadows, mark the beginning of the different seasons. Other trees stand in a straight line with the surrounding Maas villages: Meers, Elsloo, Maasband, Stein, and the Belgian towns of Kotem and Maasmechelen.

Together, they form a winding figure that defines the current course of the Meuse River. In December 2003, these ancient giants were anchored with steel bands to a steel base plate, which in turn is attached to a thick steel pipe, which was first driven into the ground. The final unveiling took place on June 21, 2004.

Source and more information: kleinemonumentenstein.nl/monumenten/diversen/bomencirkel?highlight=WyJtZWVycyJd

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Emile M

September 15, 2023

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