This lime went into the ground the year Wilhelmina was crowned. The Noorderplantsoen itself is barely older: it was laid out over a stretch of filled-in city moat between the Spoorstraat and the Kleine Noord as Hoorn built its railway station, which opened in 1882, and the lime was planted in 1898 to mark the young queen's coronation. After 1915 the park's oldest trees were cleared and replanted, and this lime is one of the survivors from that first planting rather than one of the replacements. It stands behind its own small fence, a jubilee railing put up around the trunk and root base for extra protection, with open ground clear around it. Nobody has recorded which lime species it is more precisely than the Dutch word for lime in general, and this page will not guess narrower than the source does. If you know, tell us. It stands in the plantsoen directly opposite Hoorn's railway station, a few minutes from the Noorderstraat.
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Noorderplantsoen, opposite the railway station, Noorderstraat, Hoorn
You can recognise it by the small jubilee fence ringing its trunk and root base, standing in open ground. It stands in the Noorderplantsoen directly opposite Hoorn's railway station.
In the Noorderplantsoen directly opposite Hoorn's railway station.
In bloom
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. 1683821
- Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen (Bomenstichting), entry nr 1683821
- services-eu1.arcgis.com, 1
- services-eu1.arcgis.com, query