The Lulboom of Megen

Locals call this pair of silver limes the Lulboom, and the register itself repeats the nickname rather than softening it. It marks the town's coronation tree: in 1937, when Princess Juliana, later queen, married Prince Bernhard, Megen planted a royal lime at a prominent spot just outside its historic core to mark the occasion, banded now by the national register to 1930-1940, roughly 90 years old. What has grown up around the planting since is the real story. A bench sits beside it, and generations of Megen residents have used the spot as an informal meeting point, sitting, talking, watching the view over the Maasdijk, which is how a formal royal planting acquired an entirely unroyal nickname somewhere along the way. Two cannon from 1809 and 1811 stand under the tree, unconnected to the planting itself but folded into the same small monument over time. The register records the silver lime twice, as two adjoining registrations metres apart, which this page treats as one entry rather than two, since a visitor sees a single planting rather than a pair. If you know more of the Lulboom's own history, tell us.