Giant Sequoia Near Niddastausee

The giant sequoia stands southwest of the town of Schotten in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse and is a natural monument. The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), also known as the mountain sequoia, is located north of the Schotten district of Wingershausen, about one kilometer southeast of the Nidda reservoir and west of the Vogelsberg in the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park. It stands 315 meters above sea level on an open area of about 100 by 60 meters, sloping to the north in the Upper Läunsbachschneise within a forest area in the former Läunsbachkamp nursery. Three other giant sequoias stand immediately north of the clearing within the forest, two of them close together at the Heller-Häuschen, a small forest house that used to belong to the old nursery of the village of Rainrod. The Sauberg nature trail, which begins and ends on the banks of the Nidda reservoir, leads past the sequoia. In the immediate vicinity there is an information board about the sequoia from the 1960s.
The sequoia was planted in the spring of 1900 by the forester Schott on the occasion of the birth of his son. The young plant came from the Gießen Botanical Garden and had been bred by senior forester Walther, the head of the Griesheim forestry office near Darmstadt at the time. He had received the seeds from the plant collector Carl Albert Purpus via the Darmstadt tree nursery Appel.biologie-seite.de/Biologie/Riesenmammutbaum_bei_Schotten?utm_content=cmp-true