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This oak keeps the name of the apostle whose parish it has stood beside for two centuries: Piotr, Peter, patron of Miedzyzdroje's church, in front of whose rectory the tree grows on Lipowa Street. It and its neighbour Barnim, a short walk away, are what is left of a nineteenth century avenue of oaks that once lined the approach to the church itself. At 370 centimetres round and nineteen metres tall, it is a genuinely large sessile oak. Poland's oldest documented specimen of the species, in Turawa, is dated to 370 years by written record, and the widest anywhere in the country reaches just over 600 centimetres, in the Skierniewice forest district. This one sits well inside both marks. Miedzyzdroje registered it as a natural monument in 2004, at an estimated 180 to 200 years old, putting it past two centuries by now. It stands free on a public street beside the rectory, one of five protected oaks within a few hundred metres of each other in this corner of Miedzyzdroje, along with Barnim, Bolko, Storrada and the older Regalinda a short walk away on Kolejowa.
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ul. Lipowa 4, Międzyzdroje, Poland
You can recognise it by standing in front of the parish rectory on Lipowa Street, the larger-girthed of the two avenue oaks there. Its companion, Barnim, stands a short walk away on the same road.
Free. Stop 10 on the town's own Trail of Monumental Trees, standing on a public street in front of the parish rectory.
On ul. Lipowa in front of Miedzyzdroje's parish rectory, a short walk from the Barnim oak on the same street.
In fruit
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: Centralny Rejestr Form Ochrony Przyrody (GDOŚ), pomnik przyrody, no. Dz. Urz. Woj. Zachodniopomorskiego 2004 Nr 12 poz. 227 (pomnik przyrody since 2004-03-06)
- pl.wikipedia.org
- web.archive.org
