Regensburg protects this oak for being the middle of a village. The ordinance that made it natural monument number 51 on 4 February 1994 says so in as many words: the oak is to be kept as the centre of Wutzlhofen, for its outstanding beauty and its age. The same ordinance put that age at about 180 to 200 years in 1994. Carried forward, that makes it somewhere past two centuries now, roughly 210 to 230, though it is the city's own round figure and not a ring count. Either way the oak was already more than a hundred years old in 1924, when Wutzlhofen became part of Regensburg. The place is far older than the tree. Wutzlhofen first appears in 1224 as Wuzenhoven, a property of the Regensburg cathedral chapter. The oak's protection reaches 11 metres out from the middle of its trunk, and around it is a small green with a fountain, five benches and two seesaw animals, opposite house number 42, about 4 km north-east of the old town. It is no champion. It is a village tree doing the job the village gave it. The city still listed it in 2020, and we have found no dated photograph since. Nobody has published its girth, its height or which oak it is. If you know, tell us.
Wutzlhofen (opposite house no. 42), 93057 RegensburgYou can recognise it as the oak on Wutzlhofen's small village green, with a fountain and benches close by. It stands beside the road, opposite house number 42.
Free, always open: stands on the small village green with a fountain and benches in the middle of Wutzlhofen, beside the public road.
Regensburg city bus to Wutzlhofen; line and stop not verified, so unchecked. About 4 km north-east of the old town.
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