The Beech of the Königswald, Sacrow

Potsdam's natural monument number 16 is a beech in a wood, 4.05 metres round, and that measurement is close to everything anyone has published about it. The city's register calls it a Rotbuche, the common European beech, and places it west of Sacrow in the Königswald, beside the road into the village. A trunk that size took a long time to build, but nobody has put a figure on how long, and we will not invent one. If you know its age, or have heard it estimated, tell us. Sacrow is the small village on the Havel at Potsdam's northern edge, best known for the Church of the Redeemer at the water's edge. Through the Cold War the village sat on the border with West Berlin, and that church stood inside the border strip. The wood to the west is quieter company. We should be plain about how little has been confirmed. The register point is the only position we have; an OpenStreetMap entry sits on exactly the same spot, so it is not a second fix. We have found no photograph of this tree and no recent sighting. The city still lists it, which is the best evidence we have that it stands. That makes it one for the curious. If you walk the road to Sacrow and find a beech four metres round, photograph it and send it to us. It would be the first picture of it we know of.