Trollskogen is a nature reserve at the northeastern tip of Öland, 266 hectares of pine and oak with its own visitor centre, and the oldest oak on the island grows in it. Trolleken is somewhere between 800 and 900 years old by the county administration's reckoning, reached on the 4.5-kilometre Trollskogsstigen trail from the naturum. Nobody has published a girth or a height for it. The reserve is free and open at any hour, and there is no bus: route 136 and the car park at the trailhead are how people arrive.
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Trolleken (the Troll Oak of Trollskogen)
Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) · 800 to 900 years · Trollskogen, Boda, Borgholm municipality, Oland
Öland's oldest oak is somewhere between 800 and 900 years old, and nobody has ever published how thick it is.
Trolleken stands on the Trollskogsstigen, a 4.5-kilometre marked trail through Trollskogen, the troll forest at the northeastern tip of the island. The reserve dates only from 1998 and covers 266 hectares, with a visitor centre, a cafe and four waymarked trails, and it is one of the most visited places on Öland. The tree predates all of it by eight centuries.
One story travels with the oak. A local island guide records the theory that seafarers used it as a landmark, back when the ground around it was open grazing rather than the closed forest standing there now. It is a theory and not a record: nobody has shown it to be true, and the county administration's own material does not repeat it.
What the county administration does give is the age, 800 to 900 years, and the island guide gives the same span. Neither narrows it, so neither do we. Neither gives a girth or a height either, which is unusual for a tree this well known. If you have put a tape around it, tell us and the number goes on the page.
There is no bus. Route 136 runs up the island to the naturum, about 65 kilometres north of Borgholm, with parking and a cafe at the trailhead. After that it is free, open, and on foot.
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