This field maple carries an unusually solid floor under its age. Its formal Naturdenkmal designation dates to 1979, but Wikipedia's own record cites an earlier source, a 1956 survey of Graz's planted broadleaf trees by F. Hanselmayer, which already listed this exact maple as a tree worth protecting, decades before the legal designation caught up. That gives a hard floor of at least seventy years old as of today, derived from a dated citation rather than a guess, with no upper bound stated because nothing sources one. It grows at the eastern edge of the Augarten, a public park in Jakomini, beside a heritage bathhouse building that now houses the Museum der Wahrnehmung. Whether the tree's exact footing sits on the museum's own grounds or on the adjoining public park land was not confirmed by any source read this pass, which is why this entry is flagged rather than stated with full confidence, an honest narrow gap on an otherwise well anchored tree.
Friedrichgasse 41, 8010 GrazYou can recognise it by growing at the eastern edge of the Augarten, beside the heritage bathhouse building that now houses the Museum der Wahrnehmung. It stands in the Jakomini district park.
Free to view; stands at the edge of the public Augarten park beside a heritage building (Museum der Wahrnehmung). Not confirmed on the ground whether the tree itself sits on the museum's footprint or the adjoining park land.
Walkable from Graz Hauptbahnhof or the city centre; tram/bus toward Elisabethstrasse/Jakominiplatz, then a short walk to the Augarten
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmale Graz (Stadt Graz, Stadtvermessungsamt, open government data), no. 38
- Stadt Graz Naturdenkmale open-data register (geodaten.graz.at, CC BY 4.0), register_id 38
- de.wikipedia.org, Liste der Naturdenkmäler in Graz (Steir…
- de.wikipedia.org, Museum der Wahrnehmung
- graz.at
