Roughly 700 to 1,000 years old.
Ancient trees in Austria
Vienna keeps a tree register detailed enough to argue with itself. We map 105 trees in 10 cities here. The oldest of them is Linde im Gries (the Tausendjahrige Linde) in St. Georgen im Attergau, at local tradition dates planting to 1114, roughly 900 years.
The oldest plane in front of the City Hall is dated 1783 by tradition and 1876 in the city's own records, ninety years apart with no way from here to settle it. The pagoda tree in the Stadtpark is on file as planted in 1860, in a park that did not open until August 1862. The friction is worth it: the register holds nearly nine hundred trees in the eighth district alone, which is why a girth or a planting year exists here where most cities have neither. Vienna also has one of the strangest trees on this site, a ginkgo at Schönbrunn carrying a grafted female branch, so a single tree is both sexes at once. Eighty-four trees are mapped so far, across Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, the lakeside cluster of protected yews around Hallstatt, and three single-tree destinations, a yew at Gutau, a mountain maple at Ramsau am Dachstein, and a disputed thousand-year oak at Bad Blumau.
Every place we map in Austria
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Vienna57 trees · oldest 290 years2
Salzburg21 trees · oldest 400-1000 years3
Graz16 trees · oldest 175-350 years4
Hallstatt5 trees · oldest 200 years5Bad Blumau1 tree · oldest 500-1000 years6Gutau1 tree7Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt1 tree · oldest 650 years8Oberndorf bei Salzburg1 tree · oldest 108 years9
Ramsau am Dachstein1 tree · oldest 400-500 years10St. Georgen im Attergau1 tree · oldest 700-1000 years
Vienna57 trees · oldest 290 years2Salzburg21 trees · oldest 400-1000 years3Graz16 trees · oldest 175-350 years4Hallstatt5 trees · oldest 200 years5Bad Blumau1 tree · oldest 500-1000 years6Gutau1 tree7Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt1 tree · oldest 650 years8Oberndorf bei Salzburg1 tree · oldest 108 years9Ramsau am Dachstein1 tree · oldest 400-500 years10St. Georgen im Attergau1 tree · oldest 700-1000 years39 species grow in Austria
Oaks Pedunculate Oak 17 · Oak 3 · Sessile Oak 1
Beeches Copper Beech 3 · European Beech 1 · Fern-leaved Beech 1 · Sweet Chestnut 1
Elms and zelkovas Field Elm 1
Planes London Plane 13 · Oriental Plane 7
Limes Large-leaved Lime 5 · Lime 5 · Small-leaved Lime 2
Maples Field Maple 2 · Sycamore 2
Chestnuts, walnuts and hazels Caucasian Wingnut 4 · Horse Chestnut 2 · Turkish Hazel 2
Conifers European Yew 6 · Giant Sequoia 2 · Ginkgo 2 · Austrian Pine 1 · Eastern White Pine 1 · Mixed species 1
Fruit and blossom European Pear 1
More broadleaf trees Black Poplar 3 · Hornbeam 2 · Lombardy Poplar 2 · Southern Catalpa 2 · Cornelian Cherry 1 · European Ash 1 · European Larch 1 · Japanese Pagoda Tree 1 · Judas Tree 1 · Persian Ironwood 1 · Poplar 1 · Service Tree 1 · Weeping Willow 1 · White Poplar 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Austria
In fruit
Roughly 500 to 1,000 years old.
Roughly 500 to 650 years old.
Roughly 400 to 1,000 years old.
Photo: Heinz-Peter Deska (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In fruit
Roughly 400 to 500 years old.
Photo: SchiDD (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 270 to 310 years old.
Photo: GuentherZ (CC BY 3.0)
Roughly 250 to 320 years old.
Autumn colour
Roughly 240 to 250 years old.
Photo: Wolfgang H. Wögerer, Wien, Austria (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Roughly 230 to 260 years old.
Photo: GuentherZ (CC BY 3.0)
In fruit
Roughly 200 to 260 years old.
Trees from Austria also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Trees the World Has Written About. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.