Xhoris is a village of Ferrières, on an open plateau in the province of Liège, and its mapped tree used to treat the sick. The Tilleul des Lognards is a nail tree: people rubbed a cloth on whatever hurt, then hammered it to the bark, so the complaint would pass into the wood. It stands on a grassy plateau above the village with a chapel, a cross and a stele for company, and has carried Wallonia's heritage protection since 1965. The GR571 long-distance trail passes close by.
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Tilleul des Lognards
Lime (Tilia sp.) · roughly 150 to 300 years, judged from a trunk 4 m round · Xhoris (Ferrières), Province de Liège
People came here to nail their illnesses into a tree. The Tilleul des Lognards was a nail tree: a cloth was rubbed on the sore place and then hammered to the bark, and the complaint was supposed to pass into the wood along with it. Skin trouble and toothache were the usual reasons for the walk up.
The lime stands on an open grassy plateau between the centre of Xhoris, Pierreux and the Bléron valley, and it has company. A Herman cross, the Sainte-Barbe chapel and a stele share the ground with it, so the tree is one item in a small collection of things people have put on this spot over the centuries.
Wallonia classified it on 5 November 1965 and it has been on the heritage register as an arbre remarquable ever since, under the reference 61019-CLT-0010-01. Its trunk measured four metres round at 1.30 metres from the ground in 2014.
Nobody has dated it. The French record allows that it may be very old and then declines to put a number on it, which is more honest than the number would have been. Every source calls it simply a tilleul, a lime, without saying which of the Tilia species it is. If you know either answer, tell us. The GR571 long-distance trail passes close by.
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