Nispen planted this lime the day after Princess Beatrix was born. She arrived on 31 January 1938, and on 1 February, according to the village's local history society, Nispen went to mass, walked in procession through the streets and put a memorial tree in the ground. Then came a football match, folk games and, after dark, a torchlight procession. The national tree register agrees on the year, listing it as a Beatrix tree from 1938, and identifies it as an American lime of the cultivar 'Nova', a different species from the common lime Nispen planted for Juliana in 1909. Today it is 2.83 metres round at chest height and 19 metres tall, standing alone on open gravel at the corner of Bergsebaan and Klokbergsestraat. It carries an old frost crack on its south side. The register last checked it in September 2023 and kept it on the list as monumental. The baby became queen in 1980. On 30 April 1993, Queen's Day, the Heemkundekring de Heerlijckheijd Nispen adopted the tree, and by its own account has decorated it with a few plants every Queen's Day since. Not every account agrees on which royal tree stands where. A regional history article puts a Juliana tree at this same corner and calls the date of the Beatrix planting unknown. The register and the history society both place the Beatrix lime here, and the question has not been settled. It is free to visit at any hour, 560 metres from the Julianalinde.
Nispen, corner of Bergsebaan and KlokbergsestraatYou can recognise it as the lone lime on the open gravel at the corner of Bergsebaan and Klokbergsestraat, 2.83 metres round with an old frost crack on its south side. It stands 560 metres from the Julianalinde.
Free. Stands on the open gravel verge at a public village street corner (Bergsebaan/Klokbergsestraat), owner gemeente. Register: visitable ja, visible ja, openbaar ja. Open at all times.
Nispen is about 6 km south of Roosendaal station (about 20 minutes by bike or car); a bus connection was not confirmed, check 9292 for the Nispen stop. About 670 m from the cemetery copper beech (roo_012) and 560 m from the Julianalinde (roo_013).
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