The protection here covers one horse chestnut and a torso. That is the register's own wording: entry number 53 on Regensburg's natural monument list, granted on 11 June 1997, protects a single standing chestnut plus what is left of a second, which is a good deal less than the plural in its name suggests. The name belongs to the building rather than the trees. Zum Goldenen Loewen, the Golden Lion, was an inn on this plot at Am Gries 30, and the chestnut kept the name after the inn stopped trading. It stands a few doors along from the Kastanien Am Gries, and the two are genuinely separate designations made a year apart under different numbers, not one group counted twice. On the ground the difference is easy: a cluster of trunks outside number 18, a single crown and the remains of its neighbour outside number 30. Nobody has dated either of them. One city ordinance from 1997 and a photograph from August 2022 are the entire documented record for this tree, and the photograph is also the last confirmation that it is standing. If you know the planting year, or you have five minutes and a tape measure, tell us.
In bloomIn fruit
May, when it flowers
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.
Am Gries 30, Regensburg-StadtamhofThe single horse chestnut outside Am Gries 30, on the plot of the former Zum Goldenen Loewen inn, with the remains of a second tree beside it. The protected group at number 18 is a cluster of several trunks.
Free. Street trees at Am Gries 30 in Stadtamhof, visible and reachable from the public street; named for the former Zum Goldenen Loewen inn on the same plot.
Across the Steinerne Bruecke (Stone Bridge) from the Altstadt, then about a 5 minute walk along Am Gries.
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