Qual é a árvore mais antiga de Arnhem?

De Poortwachters, three sweet chestnuts at the gate of Kasteel Zijpendaal, are the best-documented candidates for Arnhem's oldest tree, planted somewhere between 1650 and 1700 and now measured at roughly 750, 718 and 472 centimetres around. A local legend credits Karel van Egmond, the last independent Duke of Guelders, with planting them personally; the dates rule that out, since he died in 1538, more than a century early. What the legend gets right is their role: everyone visiting the castle since has had to walk between them, which is likely how they earned their name. The competing candidate is the Huissensedijk plane beside the Bonifatiuskerk in Elden, dated anywhere from 1725 to 1800, a spread wide enough that at its earliest it could be the older. Given that uncertainty, the chestnuts are the safer answer, and they are free to visit any day. Park Sonsbeek has a claimant of its own, an oak by the Lorentz Monument banded 1750 to 1800, which the register calls possibly one of the oldest in that park rather than in the city. The yew at De Steeg, banded 1600 to 1700, may be older than all of them.