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Thousand-Year-Old Oak Hittbergen

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Thousand-Year-Old Oak Hittbergen

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Thousand-Year-Old Oak Hittbergen

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Location: Hittbergen, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. View of Lauenburg – Lauenburg Old Town loop from Neetze

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2. Pfarrwitwenhaus Radegast – View of the Elbe loop from Bleckede

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3. Pfarrwitwenhaus Radegast – View of the Elbe loop from Hittbergen

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JR56

May 25, 2021

The millennial oak stands in Hittbergen right next to the Martin Church. The Elbe flows past the village about 2 km north.
The oak is called a thousand year old, but with less than half the age you can get closer to the truth. The oak has a short trunk. At a height of just under 3 m, this dissolves into several thick branches, one of which has been shortened near the trunk. The crown is very irregular.
There are many different dimensions of the oak. Sometimes it is given with a circumference of 8.70 m, measured at a height of 1 m. That is way too much. And in 1993 Fröhlich stated a trunk circumference of 5.00 m, which again seems too little. The German Tree Archive shows the oak in its tree calendar Germany's old trees from 2017. The circumference, measured at a height of 1 m, is 6.22 m. That seems to be about the waist of the trunk. The vitality of the oak is still okay.

Height: 10 m above sea level
Tree species: English oak
Age: about 300 years
Chest circumference: 6.80 m (Oswald Tiedemann)
Waist circumference: approx. 6.30 m
Height of the tree: 16 m (Oswald Tiedemann)
Crown diameter: approx. 20 m
Year of measurements: 2017

monumentale-eichen.de/fremdmeldung/hittbergen

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Carsten

September 5, 2021

A thousand-year-old oak tree already has a special charisma. A detour is worthwhile.

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Location: Hittbergen, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Thousand-Year-Old Oak Hittbergen

1. View of Lauenburg – Lauenburg Old Town loop from Neetze

2. Pfarrwitwenhaus Radegast – View of the Elbe loop from Bleckede

3. Pfarrwitwenhaus Radegast – View of the Elbe loop from Hittbergen

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