The Chestnut at the Schaeferkoeppel
By the register's figures this horse chestnut put on more than five metres of trunk in about 110 years. Frankfurt lists it at 5.30 metres round and 17 metres tall, and that is a great deal of girth for the age. Both numbers come from the same city entry and we print them as the city does, but one of them may be generous. If you know which, tell us. It is natural monument 032, and the register gives three reasons for keeping it: its character, its beauty and what the register calls landeskundliche Gründe, roughly reasons of regional history and geography. The entry does not say what that history is. It came through the October 2025 revision of the register, which deleted many other trees, and a photograph from June 2020 shows it standing at Am Schäferköppel, on the northern edge of Nieder-Erlenbach, the northernmost district of Frankfurt and about 20 kilometres from the centre. How you reach it is the thin part. Nothing we have read says whether it stands on the edge of a public path or in a field, so the pin is the register's coordinate and nothing finer. If the ground turns out to be farmland, look at it from the road and leave the field alone. Come in May, when horse chestnuts hold white candles upright over the whole crown. The cemetery limes and the oak on An der Bleiche are about two kilometres south, in the village.
In bloomIn fruit
May, when white candles stand upright over the whole crown
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.
Am Schaeferkoeppel, Frankfurt-Nieder-ErlenbachYou can recognise it as the horse chestnut with a trunk 5.30 metres round and a crown about 17 metres high. It stands at Am Schäferköppel, on the northern edge of Nieder-Erlenbach.
Free to see; the register gives no fence or ground detail and the tree sits at the northern edge of the village at Am Schaeferkoeppel. Not verified whether the ground is a public path edge or a field; the pin is the register coordinate.
Not verified; northernmost district of Frankfurt, roughly 20 km from the centre. Check RMV for bus connections to Nieder-Erlenbach. About 2.2 km north of frk_014 and frk_015.
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