Roughly 690 to 710 years old.
Ancient trees in Estonia
Estonia put a tree on its money. This page maps 12 remarkable trees across 4 cities in Estonia, each one researched and verified. The oldest of them is Tamme-Lauri Oak in Urvaste, at roughly 700 years.
The Tamme-Lauri Oak in Urvaste, 8.31 metres round at chest height and dated by a 1998 ring study to 1326, was printed on the back of the old 10 kroon note, and it is the country's thickest tree. The largest by volume is not an oak at all: the King's Pine in Järvselja, over 33 metres tall. Most of what you can walk to is in Tallinn, where the stories are small ones: a ginkgo that stopped a Soviet grandstand, an oak that moved a coastal road, and lindens planted in 1883 to mark two centuries of one family at one address. Tallinn's thickest, the Tammesalu Oak, was already sizeable when Peter the Great bought its land in 1714. Four places mapped so far, twelve trees, from a banknote oak in the south to a ginkgo on a city corner.
Every place we map in Estonia
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Tallinn9 trees · oldest roughly 390 years2Järvselja1 tree · oldest about 380 years3Urvaste1 tree · oldest roughly 700 years4Viljandi1 tree · oldest 300 to 400 years
Tallinn9 trees · oldest roughly 390 years2Järvselja1 tree · oldest about 380 years3Urvaste1 tree · oldest roughly 700 years4Viljandi1 tree · oldest 300 to 400 years5 species grow in Estonia
Oaks Pedunculate Oak 6 · Northern Red Oak 1
Limes Common Lime 3
Conifers Ginkgo 1 · Scots Pine 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Estonia
Roughly 350 to 420 years old.
Roughly 350 to 400 years old.
Photo: Olaf Meister (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 340 to 377 years old.
Roughly 330 to 380 years old.
Roughly 300 to 420 years old.
Roughly 300 to 400 years old.
Roughly 300 to 400 years old.
Roughly 140 to 150 years old.
Roughly 140 to 143 years old.
Trees from Estonia also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Oldest Tree in Every City We Map. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.