What is the oldest tree in Innsbruck?
Nobody has published an age for any of these Innsbruck trees, so the answer comes in two parts. The Schulgasse Oak in Hötting, almost 30 metres tall and three and a half metres round, is the one the Land Tirol survey calls very old. The Old Pine above the Planötzenhof has the oldest protection, from 1928, and the survey counts it among the oldest natural monuments in Tyrol, though that dates the listing, not the tree.
The Schulgasse Oak stands at a fork in a public lane in Hötting, where the Schulgasse meets the access road to the old people's home, about one and a half kilometres north-west of the main station. It was protected in 1940. A short walk away, two old black locusts protected together in 1978 stand in a small park beside the Hötting cemetery, so the two make one outing. The pine is further up the same hillside, at a path fork about 100 metres above the Planötzenhof farm inn, and getting there is an uphill walk. It once split into three stems; the main trunk and lower branches have since been removed, and no source gives its species beyond pine, its girth or its height. Down in the centre, the corkscrew oak on the Rennweg, protected in 1984, is a cultivar valued for its twisting shape rather than its age, and the Meinhardstrasse oak near the station has been protected since 1934. Every tree here is free to see.
One of Innsbruck's trees also appears in The Tallest Trees We Have Measured.