Thirty-one and a half metres is a great deal of height for a pedunculate oak, and this one in Søndermarken carries it on a single trunk 5.40 metres round at chest height. Those are the Danish Tree Register's figures, taken by the dendrologist Hans Erik Lund, who stood here on 5 September 2016, measured it, fixed its position and recorded it as alive. Put it beside its neighbour and the numbers start to mean something. The oak we map across the road in Frederiksberg Have is 28.8 metres tall and 4.95 metres round. This one is taller and thicker, and it has no name, no legend and no plaque. The register calls it remarkable at municipal level and leaves it there. That is the whole of its paperwork, and it is worth being plain about what it does not say. Nobody has dated this oak. There is no planting record in the register entry and no age estimate, and a park full of oaks gives no easy clue about which generation this one belongs to. So the honest answer to how old it is: we do not know, and if you do, tell us. The register's last visit was Lund's, in 2016. Somebody photographed something within thirty metres of the pin at the end of 2025, which in a park of many oaks proves less than it sounds. If you stand under it, tell us it is still there.
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.
Søndermarken, Frederiksberg You can recognise it by the single straight trunk, 5.40 metres round at chest height, under a crown 31.5 metres tall. It stands on an open lawn in Søndermarken, at the pin.
Free; public park (Søndermarken), open daily.
Valby/Frederiksberg area: Frederiksberg station (metro/S-train) about 1.2 km, roughly 15 min walk; exact stop not checked.
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