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Hunrodeiche

Coordinates: 51°34′18.9″N 10°56′12.5″E / 51.571917°N 10.936806°E / 51.571917; 10.936806
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The Hunrodeiche

The Hunrodeiche or, more rarely, the Hunrodseiche, in the Harz Mountains of central Germany is an oak tree over 1,000 years old[1] near Hainfeld in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Location

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The Hunrodeiche is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and within the South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve. It is due east of Hainfeld, a village in the municipality of Stolberg, on the wooded edge of the Hainfeld plateau at a height of about 461 m above sea level (NN)[2] on the Silberbachstraße (from Hainfeld to Stolberg). The stream of the same name, a tributary of the Thyra, rises a few hundred metres southeast of the oak.

Description

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The Hunrodeiche has been declared a natural monument.[2] It takes about six people to reach around its gnarled trunk.[1] Until about 2000 the tree still had many green shoots; today only the trunk and several, in some cases, thick, but mostly cut branches indicate the long life of the oak with just the occasional leafy shoot.

Hiking

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The Hunrodeiche is no. 216[3] in the system of checkpoints of the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. The checkpoint boxm, which used to be fixed to the tree, is now on a post next to it.

References

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  1. ^ a b Artikel Wandertour Harzgarten Stolberg mit Infos zur auf ausflugsziele-harz.de
  2. ^ a b Sachsen-Anhalt-Viewer[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Harzer Wandernadel: Stempelstelle 216 – Hunrodeiche Archived 2013-02-11 at archive.today auf harzer-wandernadel.de

51°34′18.9″N 10°56′12.5″E / 51.571917°N 10.936806°E / 51.571917; 10.936806