No tree in Salzburg has been protected for longer than this one. The oak at the Erentrudishof went onto the Land Salzburg register in 1933 as NDM00019, the earliest designation on the city's whole list, with 95 square metres of ground protected around it. The register describes a single-stemmed oak once used for Eichelmast: pigs turned out beneath it in autumn to fatten on the acorns it dropped. That is a working relationship rather than an ornamental one, and the setting has stayed working. The Erentrudishof is a farm run by the Stift Nonnberg convent, on the southern edge of the city at Morzg, with an organic shop, weekday opening hours and a self-service raw milk machine that runs around the clock. The oak stands on the yard of a place people still visit to buy milk. Finding the address takes a moment. The register transcription puts the farm on Gneiserstraße, the photograph archive puts it on Morzger Straße, and both mean the same farmstead. Aim for the Erentrudishof by name and ignore the street. Worth checking before you go: the shop was closed for renovation with a reopening announced for July 2026. Nobody has dated the tree. The 1933 listing says it was already worth protecting then and nothing more, which makes it a floor rather than an age. If you know when it was planted, or you have measured the trunk, tell us.
In fruit
September and October, when the acorns that once fattened the farm pigs come down
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.
Erentrudishof organic farm, Morzg, Salzburg (Wikipedia's register transcription gives Gneiserstraße 16; Wikimedia Commons gives Morzger Straße 40 for the same farmstead, run by Stift Nonnberg; discrepancy unresolved)You can recognise it by its single, thick stem standing over the yard of the Erentrudishof farm shop. It stands on the organic farm's grounds, run by Stift Nonnberg convent at Morzg.
Free; stands on the grounds of the Erentrudishof organic farm shop, run by Stift Nonnberg convent. Publicly accessible during farm-shop hours (Mon-Fri 9:00-18:30, Sat 9:00-12:00) with a self-service raw-milk machine open 24/7; the shop was reported closed for renovation with a stated July 2026 reopening at the time this was researched (2026-08-29), confirm it has reopened before sending a reader.
Southern edge of Salzburg in Morzg; reachable by city bus toward Morzg/Hellbrunn and a short walk.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Naturdenkmal (Land Salzburg, Naturschutzgesetz 1999), no. NDM00019
- de.wikipedia.org
- commons.wikimedia.org
- erentrudishof.at
- service.salzburg.gv.at
