What is the oldest tree in Miedzyzdroje?
The oldest tree in Miedzyzdroje is the Regalinda Oak, a sessile oak on Kolejowa Street that the town's own Trail of Monumental Trees puts at 350 to 400 years old, the oldest of the trail's eight signed stops. It measures 470 centimetres round under a crown fifteen metres wide. It stands free to see on a public street, at an address shared with a small aparthotel that borrowed the tree's name rather than the other way round.
The age comes from Miedzyzdroje's own signage rather than a scientific dating: the town's Trail of Monumental Trees, posted in three languages, calls the Regalinda Oak the oldest of its eight stops and gives 350 to 400 years without citing a study behind the figure. That still falls centuries short of Regalinda herself, the Piast princess and sister of King Mieszko II the tree is named for, who left Poland for Meissen in the eleventh century; the naming is tradition, not a claim about the tree's own age. The tree stands at Kolejowa 35a, an address it shares with a small hotel, Zlota Regalinda, that took its name from the oak rather than the other way round. This page also carries four more oaks from the same walkable stretch of streets, all designated the same year as Regalinda: Bolko and Storrada, named for Bolesław Chrobry and his sister Świętosława, stand a short walk up Kolejowa; Barnim and Apostoł, named for figures tied to the parish church, stand on Lipowa where a nineteenth century avenue once ran toward it.
One of Miedzyzdroje's trees also appears in The Thickest Trunks We Have Measured, a themed collection spanning several cities.