This oak is protected as a leftover of a landscape that no longer exists. Salzburg's register calls it a Kulturrelikt, a cultural relic: the last trace of the open, thinly wooded meadows that once spread near the Hellbrunner Allee, before this corner of Kleingmain and Morzg was built up. It was declared a natural monument in 1986, and the register's reason is not its size or its shape but what it remembers: the ground here was once meadow with scattered trees, and this oak is what remains of it. The street it now stands on was only named in 1941, after the Buchholzhof. No source gives its age, and nobody has published its girth, so we will not guess. The register's framing implies it was here long before 1986, but it puts no number on that. If you have measured it, tell us, and we can at least estimate. The species stands on firmer ground: the register says only Eiche, oak, but a geotagged photograph on Wikimedia Commons from August 2014 is filed as Quercus robur. That photograph is also the most recent sighting we found, so a word that it still stands would help. As far as we can tell the northern stretch of Buchholzhofstraße is now a footpath and cycle path running toward the Hellbrunner Allee; it is about a 20 to 25 minute walk south of the Altstadt.
Buchholzhofstraße, Kleingmain/Morzg, Salzburg, on the pedestrian and cycle path leading toward Hellbrunner Allee You can recognise it as the lone protected oak beside Buchholzhofstraße, on the footpath and cycle path that leads toward the Hellbrunner Allee in Morzg.
Free. Stands beside Buchholzhofstraße, whose northern stretch is a public pedestrian and cycle path (Geh- und Radweg) running into the Hellbrunner Allee; no gate or restriction found.
Bus/Obus line 5 or bus line 25 (Morzg route); about a 20-25 minute walk south from Salzburg's Altstadt