What is the oldest tree in Breda?
The oldest documented tree on this page is the Moeierboom, a large-leaved lime planted around 1675, making it roughly 345 years old. It stands on the Markt in Etten-Leur, a seven-minute train ride from Breda, rather than in Breda itself; the oldest tree actually inside the city is the trio of black mulberries at De Nieuwe Veste, planted around 1780.
The Moeierboom is not in Breda proper. It stands on the Markt in Etten-Leur, a separate town about ten kilometres away and seven minutes by train, and this page includes it under the project's day-trip rule: a tree close enough to reach easily belongs here, labelled honestly with its real place. Etten-Leur's own civic pride in the tree is well documented, from a national Tree of the Year win in 2020 to the crowdfunded lights it wears every winter, and its age rests on four independent sources rather than one. Inside Breda's own borders, the oldest tree with a documented planting date is the trio of black mulberries at De Nieuwe Veste, planted around 1780 in the garden of a manor house that no longer stands. A 1995 library was built around them rather than through them. At roughly 245 years old they are a century younger than the Moeierboom, and unlike it, they have never needed clipping to survive: their small courtyard simply never demanded it.
One of Breda's trees also appears in Autumn Worth the Trip.