The oak was here first. The Jägerhof in Volkspark Klein-Glienicke went up some time before 1830, and by the reckoning of the German veteran-tree archive that measured this tree, it was already more than a hundred years old when the builders arrived. That puts its beginning before roughly 1730, which makes 300 years a fair estimate and not a precise one. Nobody has cored it, and Berlin's register of natural monuments, which protects it as 6-73/B, has no age field to put a figure in. The girth is firmer: 566 centimetres at chest height, taped in 2023. Nearly six metres of trunk, and by a wide margin the heaviest tree on this walk. It stands high above the Havel path near the Krughorn headland, south along the park from the Glienicke bridge and about fifteen to twenty minutes on foot from the other three trees here. Berlin bought the estate in the 1930s and opened it to the public, so the ground under this oak has been walkable for the better part of a century. Before that it was hunting country, which is what a Jägerhof is for. The lodge was built for the sport. The oak was simply standing in the way of it, and outlived the whole arrangement.
Winter shapeIn fruit
January and February, when the leaves are down and the whole frame of the old crown shows
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
Volkspark Klein-Glienicke, at the Jägerhof, south of the Krughorn headland, Berlin-Wannsee (Steglitz-Zehlendorf), on the Potsdam borderYou can recognise it as the heaviest tree on this walk, 5.66 metres round. It stands high above the Havel path near the Krughorn headland in Volkspark Klein-Glienicke.
Free, open to the public. Volkspark Klein-Glienicke was opened to the public in the 1930s when Berlin acquired the estate; the Jägerhof and the ground around it are publicly accessible, high above the Havel-side path near the Krughorn
Tram 93 from Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to the Glienicker Brücke stop, about 12 minutes, then roughly a 15-20 minute walk south along the park path to the Jägerhof
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmal (Land Berlin), no. 6-73/B
- berlin.de
- ostdeutsches-baumarchiv.de
- Land Berlin, Naturdenkmale: Baeume und Findlinge (declared natural monuments), no. 6-73/B