The Last Elms of Park Baadland
Baadland
Twenty Dutch elms went into Park Baadland between 1900 and 1910, and two are left standing. Dutch elm disease took the other eighteen in stages: nine still stood in a 2008 survey, and by 2026 the count was down to these two. Baadland is an artificial peninsula, built to shield Hoorn's harbour from the open Zuiderzee before being turned into a public plantsoen between 1837 and 1842, and it has stayed parkland ever since. Herons used to nest in the crowns of its older elms; both the herons and the eighteen other trees that once held them are gone. No source names which two of the original twenty these are or gives either one a girth, so the register's single coordinate for the park is what this page can offer rather than an exact pair of trunks. That is the honest state of a planting that has been dying for over a century and is not finished yet. Free to see, inside the small park, a walk of about a kilometre from Hoorn's town centre.
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Park Baadland (or Baatland), Hoorn
You can recognise them as the only two old elms left in Park Baadland, from an original planting of twenty. They stand somewhere on the small peninsula that shields Hoorn's old harbour; the pin is rough, so look for the pair.
On the small artificial peninsula of Park Baadland, about a 15 minute walk south of Hoorn town centre.
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.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from. The story was written with AI from these sources, and readers who know the tree correct it.
- In the official register: Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen (Bomenstichting), no. 1682399
- Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen (Bomenstichting), entry nr 1682399
- services-eu1.arcgis.com