Wat is de oudste boom van Assen?
The oldest tree in Assen is the Hollow Oak of Overcingel, a pedunculate oak the national tree register bands to 1750-1800, roughly 225 to 275 years old. It grows on the private Overcingel estate off Oostersingel, its trunk opened on the north side by a cavity where sulfur fungus has been feeding for decades.
Ages here come from the Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen, which records a planting decade rather than a year, so every figure on this page is a band rather than a measurement. The register is the single source for nine of the ten, so those entries ship flagged rather than confirmed. The oak at Beilen carries a second source and a disputed age: 350 years locally, 1750 to 1800 by the register's own arithmetic. Three of the ten, the horse chestnut, the hollow oak and the broken cypress, stand together on Overcingel, a private estate landscaped in 1824 and free to walk with a card from Het Drentse Landschap's Assen office, or without one during the February and March crocus season. Two more, a weeping beech and a copper beech, share a pocket garden behind a house called Nieuw Echten, reached through a footpath between two front doors on Alteveerstraat. The rest stand on public ground: a deer park, a former manor's grounds now open as Valkenstijn, and a former hospital site along Beilerstraat. Where a pin is marked approximate, we know the site and not the exact trunk.
Ken je een oudere boom in Assen, of zie je hier een fout, laat het ons weten en we passen het aan.
Hier klopt iets nietNog een boom aandragen