What is the oldest tree in Den Bosch?
Den Bosch's oldest tree is a Norway maple on Bastion Oranje, roughly 120 years old per the city's own monumental-tree register, growing on a 1634 fortress bastion that became a park after the site's windmill came down between 1880 and 1890.
The maple's age comes from 's-Hertogenbosch's own municipal monumental-trees register, which records it at roughly 120 years with a girth over four metres, the largest individually measured figure of any tree currently verified for this city. Its planting ties to a specific historical turn rather than an estimate alone: Bastion Oranje lost its military role after the 1874 Vestingwet stripped Dutch city walls of fortress status nationwide, the municipality bought the bastion in 1885, and landscape architect J.M. Marechal laid out the resulting park between 1880 and 1890, on the same ground where a windmill and later an oil and flour factory had stood. A second, slightly younger Norway maple grows nearby on the same bastion, which is the likely source of an older species disagreement between local records. None of Den Bosch's other three verified entries currently outdate it; the Bastion Vught trees register at roughly a century each.
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