Two protected oaks stand on this stretch of canal bank, about 25 metres apart, and Berlin lists them as separate natural monuments, 1-20/B and 1-97/B. Standing there, you will read them as one place: a pair of pedunculate oaks on the green strip along the Landwehr Canal, a few minutes from the zoo. The street is named after Katharina Heinroth, and she is worth knowing about. A zoologist, she took over the Berlin Zoo in 1945, when the war had left it in ruins and fewer than a hundred of its thousands of animals were still alive. She rebuilt it over the following decade and was the first woman to run a German zoo. The bank that carries her name is a quiet one: a canal path, joggers, the odd tour boat sliding past. Pedunculate oaks are the native oak of this lowland, the tree that carries its acorns on long stalks and its leaves on almost none. Whether these two were planted together, or one came long after the other, no source says. The register records nothing about their age or size. If you measure either trunk, or better both, tell us which one and what you found.
catkins hang before the leaves are fully outacorns drop, and a good mast year buries the ground in themAutumn colour
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
Gartenufer green space, Katharina-Heinroth-Ufer 2, Tiergarten You can recognise it as one of a pair: two protected pedunculate oaks about 25 metres apart on the same canal-side strip. It stands on the Gartenufer green along the Landwehr Canal, at Katharina-Heinroth-Ufer 2.
Free; public green strip along the Landwehrkanal, open at all hours.
S/U Zoologischer Garten about 8 to 10 min walk
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