A photograph taken on the second of May, 2014, and filed on Wikimedia Commons under this tree's own protection number, is the kind of small dated proof this project values: it shows the tree alive and identifiable twelve years ago, a data point independent of both the city's live register and Wikipedia's own list, which agree with each other on the exact spot to within two metres. The plane has held its Naturdenkmal status since September 1990, growing on Schillerplatz, an ordinary public square in the St. Leonhard district rather than a landscaped park, the kind of protected tree that people cross without a second glance because nothing marks it out from the street furniture around it. No age or trunk measurement has ever been published for it, which is true of most of Graz's protected trees and no reason to hold this one back: it stands on open public ground, reachable by tram or bus directly to the square, free at any hour.
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.
Schillerplatz, 8010 GrazYou can recognise it by standing on Schillerplatz itself, an ordinary public square rather than a landscaped park, easy to walk past without a second glance. It stands in the St. Leonhard district, reachable directly by tram or bus.
Free, on Schillerplatz, a public city square, open at all times
Tram or bus to the Schillerplatz stop, directly on the square
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmale Graz (Stadt Graz, Stadtvermessungsamt, open government data), no. 89
- Stadt Graz Naturdenkmale open-data register (geodaten.graz.at, CC BY 4.0), register_id 89
- de.wikipedia.org
- Wikimedia Commons, Category:Steirisches Naturdenkmal 1138, File:2014-05-02 Platane Schillerplatz Graz (1).JPG
- graz.at
