This park was a quarantine station.
Ancient Trees in the Kontumazgarten
Six trees on 1.7 hectares each carry their own legal protection here, which is a great deal of attention for one small park.
Nuremberg's 2020 natural monument ordinance lists them as ND-6 through ND-11: a horse chestnut, two European beeches and three London planes, each with its own number, coordinate and species. Two of the planes stand about five metres apart and the law counts them separately, so a visitor looking for six trees will find what reads as five sights. The name says what the ground was. Kontumaz is the old German word for quarantine, and this is where the city held arriving travellers and goods until it was satisfied they carried nothing worse than themselves. It is a lawn with a playground now. The two beeches are the only trees here that would have grown in Franconia without anybody's help. Free, open daily.
All 6 stand in Nuremberg, which maps 12 remarkable trees in total.
Six individually protected trees stand on 1.7 hectares here, which is a great deal of legal attention for one small park.
Almost nothing grows under a beech, and the tree is doing that on purpose.
These two planes stand five metres apart and the law counts them as separate monuments.
Germany protects individual trees the way other countries protect buildings.
Two trees in this park would be here without anyone's help, and both of them are beeches.
Opening times and visitor information: the City of Nuremberg.
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