This oak has its own boulder. Beside the trunk in Theodor-Körner-Park sits a stone with an inscription plaque, and the oak it refers to is known as the Theodor-Körner-Eiche. Vienna lists it as Natural Monument 847, and the monument list gives its reasons in three words: size, habit and vitality. The size is easy to check. The city's tree cadastre measures the trunk at 4.3 metres round, and records a planting year of 1842. That is the cadastre's own entry for this tree rather than a dated document, so read it as a guide: somewhere between 150 and 200 years, with 1842 the likeliest. If it holds, the oak was a sapling while Meidling was still a separate village, and it has stood through the village becoming part of Vienna in 1892 and through two world wars. One thing the paperwork does not say is why the oak carries the name it does, or when the stone was set beside it. It would be tidy to assume the tree was planted in somebody's honour, and no source we have found says so. The stone points at the tree; the tree came first, or at least nobody has shown otherwise. It is a free walk in a public park with no opening hours. Go in leaf, when the crown that earned the protection is at its fullest. If you know the story of the stone, tell us.
catkins hang before the leaves are fully outacorns drop, and a good mast year buries the ground in themAutumn colour
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.
Theodor-Körner-Park, opposite Breitenfurter Straße 13, MeidlingYou can recognise it by the boulder with an inscription plaque that stands beside the trunk, 4.3 metres round. It stands opposite Breitenfurter Straße 13; the big horse chestnut about 30 metres away is a different tree.
Free. Public city park (MA 42 Parkanlage); no opening hours.
Nearest stop not verified.
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