This plane has held Naturdenkmal status since 1979, one of the first wave of trees Graz ever protected, its number a round one: Steirisches Naturdenkmal 1000. It grows on Elisabethstrasse in St. Leonhard, at the exact spot where OpenStreetMap independently marks a small bridge over a stream, a detail that fits a streamside verge planting rather than confirming any single source's account on its own. A photograph taken on the 14th of May 2014, filed on Wikimedia Commons and GPS-tagged to the register's own coordinate, shows the tree alive and identifiable twelve years ago. Nobody has photographed it since, so its alive-now status rests on that image plus its current public listing rather than a fresh sighting, an honest gap rather than a certainty. The city's live register and Wikipedia's separately maintained Naturdenkmal list agree on the location to within four and a half metres. Neither carries an age or a trunk measurement, true of most of Graz's protected trees and no reason to skip this one: it stands on public ground, the register's own owner field reading 'oeffentlich', free to see at any hour, less than a kilometre from the Schillerplatz plane.
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.
Elisabethstrasse 48, 8010 GrazYou can recognise it by standing at the spot where a small bridge crosses a stream on Elisabethstrasse, a streamside verge planting. It stands in St. Leonhard, less than a kilometre from the Schillerplatz plane.
Free, on publicly owned ground per the city register (owner: oeffentlich/public)
Walkable from Graz city centre along Elisabethstrasse; tram/bus lines serve the street
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmale Graz (Stadt Graz, Stadtvermessungsamt, open government data), no. 27
- Stadt Graz Naturdenkmale open-data register (geodaten.graz.at, CC BY 4.0), register_id 27
- de.wikipedia.org
- graz.at
