Ahorn Feistererhof, Ramsau am Dachstein

presumably around 450 yearsSycamore

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The only age anyone puts on this maple comes from a sign standing next to it, and the sign hedges: presumably around 450 years. Take that for what it is. It is the estimate of the people who live with the tree, not a figure from a core sample, and nobody has published a girth or a height that would let anyone check it. What is on the record is the tree's standing. It is the oldest sycamore in the Ramsau, and an official Naturdenkmal, object number 010 on the Bezirk Liezen list, filed under the flat municipal name Ahornbaum Ramsau am Dachstein. It grows at 1,170 metres on the Ramsau plateau, with the south wall of the Dachstein above it, at the rear of the Feistererhof off the Feistererweg. The farm still works and now takes guests as well. Sycamore is the maple that keeps going at this altitude when other broadleaves thin out, and this is the one the district singled out. Four hundred and fifty years is a guess until somebody gets a tape around the trunk. If that is you, send us the number.

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The button above opens directions in your maps app. No public transport; reached on foot via the Feistererweg from Ramsau am Dachstein.

Species: Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Age estimate: presumably around 450 years
Location: At the rear of the Feistererhof farm, off Feistererweg, Ramsau am Dachstein, Styria (The Ramsau plateau, at the Feistererhof)
Access: On the grounds of the Feistererhof, a working farm that also takes guests as a Bio-Hotel; the tree carries its own on-site information plaque, which suggests visitor access is customary, but no source states outright that the public may walk up to it. Treat as likely open rather than confirmed, and tell us what you find.
Getting there: No public transport; reached on foot via the Feistererweg from Ramsau am Dachstein.

This is the one entry on the map for Ramsau am Dachstein so far. See it on the Ramsau am Dachstein page. It is a Sycamore; see every sycamore on the site.

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