The Copper Beech of the Hertenkamp

Storm Poly came through Alkmaar on 5 July 2023 and felled more than five hundred trees in an afternoon, with roughly two hundred more damaged badly enough to matter. One casualty was a copper beech in this same park, thirty metres or so away near the flower clock, cut down now to a stump about four metres tall. This beech, its near neighbour and near-twin, is the one that stood. Only the national register names it, and only in a single line: it probably dates, the register says, from the Springer period, without a firmer date than that. The Alkmaarderhout itself is one of the oldest public parks in the Netherlands, laid out in 1607 and rebuilt into its present form by the landscape architect L.A. Springer around 1900 to 1903, the same years the deer park beside it, the Hertenkamp, was established. So the register is placing this tree at the edge of that rebuilding rather than dating it outright. Beyond that one line, nothing: no planting record, no newspaper mention, just the fact that it survived a storm that took its neighbour down. If you know more about it, tell us.