The Horse Chestnut of Klaphekkenstraat

This horse chestnut stands on the public square where Klaphekkenstraat meets Goudmijnstraat in Oss itself, banded by the national register to a planting around 1930, roughly a century old. Oss grew fast through the twentieth century on the back of its meat-processing and margarine industries, Unilever's roots running straight through the town, and a tree this age on an ordinary residential square is a small, quiet survivor of the neighbourhood's early expansion. A horse chestnut of a century's growth is close to its prime: full canopy, an established root system, and every May a full display of the white candle-shaped flower spikes the species is planted for everywhere from parks to school playgrounds. Chestnuts of this age are also the ones most often lost to bleeding canker and leaf miner damage in the Netherlands, so a healthy century-old specimen is worth noting for that reason alone, though the register records no condition detail for this one. The register is the only source describing it. If you know when it was planted, or anything of the square's own history, tell us.