The Lime of Het Woldhuis
roughly 325 to 425 years, from the register's planting band of 1600 to 1700Common Limepin approximate
Which one is it? A very heavy old lime by the estate buildings, likely with multiple stems or an irregular hollowing trunk.
The register gives this lime the same planting band as the oak at the palace, 1600 to 1700, and unlike the oak it offers no reasoning at all. That is a century of uncertainty stated plainly, and it is the honest position: somebody surveyed a very old lime on an estate east of the town and could not date it more closely than that. So it is either the oldest tree in Apeldoorn or roughly the same age as the palace oak, and there is no way to settle it without a core. What a band that wide does tell you is what the tree looks like. Limes of this age are rarely single clean trunks. They tend to have been cut, layered, split by their own weight and regrown, sometimes hollow, often with the ground around the base thrown up by roots that have had three or four hundred years to spread. A lime is also one of the few trees that can produce a new trunk from a fallen limb that touches soil, which is part of why they last. If you go and can take a girth measurement at 1.30 metres, send it to us. That is the number that would settle this.
The button above opens directions in your maps app. About 6 km east of Apeldoorn station, on the Woudhuis side.
The pin marks the right spot roughly, not the tree itself. It stands here, but we have not confirmed the precise position on the ground yet. Know exactly where it is?
- Species
- Common Lime (Tilia x europaea)
- Age estimate
- roughly 325 to 425 years, from the register's planting band of 1600 to 1700
- Location
- Het Woldhuis 1, east of Apeldoorn (Woudhuis)
- Access
- Free. Recorded as visitable in the national register; the tree stands on the estate grounds at Het Woldhuis 1.
- Getting there
- About 6 km east of Apeldoorn station, on the Woudhuis side.
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