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.
In fruit
September to October: winged seeds that spin down in pairs
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.
At the rear of the Feistererhof farm, off Feistererweg, Ramsau am Dachstein, StyriaYou can recognise it by the plaque beside it naming it the oldest sycamore in the Ramsau. It stands at the rear of the Feistererhof farm, the Dachstein's south wall rising above it.
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.
No public transport; reached on foot via the Feistererweg from Ramsau am Dachstein.
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