Berlin's natural monument register lists more than six hundred trees, and only two of them are protected for four reasons at once. This oak is one. When the city made it Naturdenkmal 1-86/B on 2 March 1993, it cited distinctiveness, beauty, regional heritage and scientific grounds. Most entries in the register cite a single reason; only three in the whole list mention science at all. It is a sessile oak, the less common of the two oaks in Berlin's parks. The pedunculate oak is the one you meet everywhere. This one stands at the corner of Scheidemannstrasse and the Grosse Querallee, near the Carillon in the Tiergarten. The register's point marks the tree itself, and a photograph on Wikimedia Commons from May 2024 is titled with this exact place, Scheidemannstrasse at the corner of the Grosse Querallee, near the Carillon, so the pin is a firm one. What the register does not say is what the scientific interest is. It records the reason and leaves the explanation out. The Tiergarten is a free public park, open at all hours, about ten minutes on foot from the Hauptbahnhof, and the Tulip Tree of Luiseninsel is under a kilometre away if you want to keep walking. No source we have found gives an age, a girth or a height. If you know any of those, or why scientists cared about this oak, tell us.
greenish-yellow catkins hang as the leaves openstalkless acorns sit tight on the twig, and a mast year covers 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.
Scheidemannstrasse at Grosse Querallee, near the Carillon, Tiergarten You can recognise it as a sessile oak, its acorns sitting directly on the twig rather than on stalks. It stands at the corner of Scheidemannstrasse and the Grosse Querallee, near the Carillon in the Tiergarten.
Free; Grosser Tiergarten is a public park open at all hours.
S/U Hauptbahnhof, about 10 min walk
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