This tree is known by the saint standing next to it. The Antoniusbaum takes its name from a statue of Saint Anthony beside it in the St. Vith forest, and it is the pairing, tree and saint together, that people walk out to see. It is a named destination rather than a botanical record. In 1985 the German-speaking Community of Belgium put the Antoniusbaum area under landscape protection, which guards the setting as a whole rather than listing the trunk as a monumental tree. In 2007 the regional paper GrenzEcho reported the spot had been spruced up by private local initiative, and it is described as a popular goal for hikers in the Sankt Vither Wald. That is close to everything on record, and we would rather say so than dress it up. No source we found names the species, gives an age or records a girth. The name is no help either: an Eiche or a Linde announces itself, an Anthony tree does not. A figure of "more than 300 years" circulates online, but we could not trace it to any page we trust, so it is not repeated here as fact. What it offers is a walk through the forest to a place that people have kept tending, with a saint for company at the end. If you have stood under it and can say what kind of tree it is, or how big, tell us. You would be the first source.
In the Sankt Vither Wald (St. Vith forest), Sankt-Vith, German-speaking Community of Belgium You can recognise it by the statue of Saint Anthony standing beside it, which gives the tree its name. It stands in the St. Vith forest, on the hiking paths of the Sankt Vither Wald.
Free, in the public St. Vith forest, described as a popular hiking destination; open at all times.
In the Sankt Vither Wald, the forest around Sankt Vith, reached on foot along the forest's hiking paths.