The Wernhalde Giant Sequoias

Two giant sequoias stand about ten metres apart between the houses of Steinkopfstraße, and Stuttgart protects each one under its own number. The trees at number 6 and number 8 were made natural monuments in June 2003; we list them as one stop, because you will see them together. Sequoias are something of a Stuttgart habit. A local walking writer traces many of the ones in the city and across Württemberg to King Wilhelm I, who bought a pound of seed in 1864, and describes the sequoias in the Wernhaldenpark next door as reaching sizes unbelievable for Württemberg. Whether these two grew from that pound of seed, nobody has recorded. Their planting date is not documented, and we are not going to borrow the king's year for them. If you know when they went in, tell us. The official register is the only source that names these two individually, and it gives no girth or height. A photograph from April 2018 shows a tall, healthy conifer behind a roadside rail, with houses beside it. Be clear about access. They stand between houses on ground no source describes, so these are trees to look at from the street and footpath, not to walk up to, and the pin is the register's approximate point. For sequoias you can stand under, the public Wernhaldenpark next door has many more on its steep paths, along with a young planting from 1990 not to be mistaken for the old ones.