The Old Pine above the Planötzenhof

Tyrol put this pine under protection in 1928, and the survey of Innsbruck's natural monuments calls it one of the oldest in the province. That is a claim about the paperwork, not the tree: the protection is old, and nobody has published the pine's age. The tree has paid for its years. Its trunk once split about four metres up into three stems. The main trunk and the lower branches have since had to be removed, so what stands at the path fork above the Planötzenhof, a farm inn on the Hötting hillside, is a damaged survivor rather than a complete tree. It has held its protection for nearly a century, longer than any other tree we map in Innsbruck, through the war years and every winter on the slope since. The sources call it a Föhre, a pine, and stop there. In Tyrol that usually means Scots pine, but no source says so for this tree, so we give only the genus. None gives a girth or a height either. If you can name the species, or have measured it, tell us. Getting there is a walk: uphill from Hötting to the Planötzenhof, then about 100 metres higher to the fork in the public path. Our pin is the register's point, good to a few tens of metres. It costs nothing to see.