The Chestnuts of Am Gries

One of these chestnuts is dying, and the most recent public look at them was taken four years ago. The photographer who recorded the group on 29 August 2022 captioned the picture with the dying chestnut in the foreground, which remains the only statement anyone has published about their condition. The rest of the group was standing. Two separate authorities protect them, which is unusual for a row of street trees. Regensburg's own natural monument ordinance lists them as number 52, the Kastanien Am Gries, designated on 28 March 1996. Bavaria's state register carries the same group independently as ND-03369. Between them they establish the species, the position and the protected status. Neither records an age, which is true of almost every tree on this page. They stand on Am Gries in Stadtamhof, on the far bank of the Danube, about five minutes on foot from the end of the Steinerne Bruecke. That crossing is the reason to do these two chestnut entries together with the old town ones rather than on another day. Standing in front of them, the group's condition is the thing you will read first. If the failing chestnut has gone since 2022, or if the others have caught up with it, tell us.