What is the oldest tree in Heerlen?
The oldest tree in Heerlen is the Lime of Eikendermolenweg, which the national tree register bands to the 1600s, putting it at roughly 330 to 430 years old. It stands on the far side of the road from Kasteel Eyckholt's grounds, across from the plane tree locals call the Oak of Terworm.
Ages here come from the Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen, which records a planting decade rather than a year, so every figure on this page is a band. The register is the single source throughout, so every entry ships flagged rather than confirmed. Three trees, two oaks and the lime, stand on or near the wooded grounds around Kasteel Eyckholt and Terworm, private country estates whose land is now managed as public woodland; a fourth tree, the plane known locally as the Oak of Terworm, grows at a nearby crossroads and carries the clearest history of any entry here, probably planted in 1749 to mark an heir's birth. The rest stand in the city itself: a street tree named for the 1920s mining colony neighbourhood it grew up in, a park tree from the same era, a ginkgo on the drive to Terworm castle, and a catalpa outside the town hall. Where a pin is marked approximate, we know the site and not the exact trunk.
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