The Oak of Middengebied Noord

This oak on the Rijksweg Noord in Geleen carries the register's most detailed physical description on this list: a trunk running four and a half metres around, grown wide and open since it has stood in unenclosed ground since it was planted, roughly around 1910, making it about 120 years old. The register calls the result a strikingly broad crown, the shape a pedunculate oak builds when nothing crowds it from any side. What makes the register's note worth reading in full is the concern it raises about the tree's future: land immediately east of it is under development, a district plan called Middengebied Noord, and the register's surveyor notes it looks likely the oak will be spared, then adds that keeping this monumental oak a good place to stand matters for whatever comes next. That is an unusually direct piece of advocacy for a database that otherwise sticks to measurements and dates. It stands visible from Rijksweg Noord, opposite a hospital, free to see at any hour. If the development around it has moved forward, or if you know how the oak has fared, tell us.