What is the oldest tree in Roosendaal?
The oldest tree in Roosendaal is the Oriental Plane of De Kring, which the national tree register bands to a planting around 1850, roughly 180 years old. It stands on De Kring square, a rare tree in a country whose squares are planted with London planes.
Ages here come from the Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen, which records a planting decade rather than a year, so every figure on this page is a band. The register is the main source, so most entries ship flagged. Six of the eight trees sit in four spots in town; two more stand in the village of Nispen, 6 km south. De Kring square holds the Oriental plane with a London plane from the 1900s 13 metres in front. Emile van Loonpark holds a horse chestnut behind the pond, from around 1870. Burgerhoutsestraat holds a catalpa and a London plane at opposite corners of the same building. The Algemene Begraafplaats on Bachlaan holds a double-flowered horse chestnut banded to the 1870s. Nispen holds a copper beech of fused stems at its parish cemetery gate and a lime planted in 1909 for the birth of Princess Juliana. All eight stand on public ground or beside a public road, with nothing to pay; the Bachlaan cemetery is open daily from 8.00 to 16.30. Where a pin is marked approximate, we know the site and not the exact trunk.
One of Roosendaal's trees also appears in Autumn Worth the Trip.