People took tea under this lime, and the floor they did it on is still there. A mosaic pavement near the Lions Fountain in the Schlossgarten marks the spot where visitors to Prince Carl of Prussia's estate sat beneath the tree, and the park's own account calls it one of the most impressive solitary trees on the estate. Berlin's register of natural monuments agrees in its own dry way. It gives the tree a number, 6-100/B, and a name, Königslinde, the King's Linden, which is unusual in a document that mostly records species and parcel numbers and then stops. The garden around it was laid out from 1816 by Peter Joseph Lenné for Prince Carl, an English landscape of long sightlines on a Prussian riverbank, and it is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage site covering the palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin. It is open, free, and has no gate. Neither the register nor the park's history gives this lime an age or a girth, so it gets neither here. It stands on Königstraße opposite the Wiesenteich pond, on the Berlin side of the Glienicke bridge, twelve minutes from Potsdam Hauptbahnhof on the 93 tram, and it is the tree on this walk that people actually sat under.
In bloom
late June into July, when the lime blossom opens and the scent carries across the lawn
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.
Schlossgarten Glienicke, on Königstraße opposite the Wiesenteich pond, Berlin-Wannsee (Steglitz-Zehlendorf), on the Potsdam borderThe big solitary lime on the Königstraße side of the Schlossgarten, opposite the Wiesenteich, with the mosaic floor near the Lions Fountain. The other protected lime is 200 metres west, by the hunting lodge.
Free, open to the public year-round, no gate, no hours and no admission. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Tram 93 from Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to the Glienicker Brücke stop, about 12 minutes, then a short walk into the Schlossgarten
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmal (Land Berlin), no. 6-100/B
- berlin.de
- en.wikipedia.org
- Land Berlin, Naturdenkmale: Baeume und Findlinge (declared natural monuments), no. 6-100/B