Kaiserlinde, Natural monument tree in Spiesen-Elversberg, Germany.
The Kaiserlinde is a leafless deciduous tree with a straight, dark, cylindrical trunk and a rounded crown of thin twigs, standing beside a paved road at Lindenstrasse and Waldstrasse in Spiesen-Elversberg. Low buildings and hedges are visible in the background. The current tree, planted in 2021, replaced the original linden that was uprooted in 2015.
The original linden tree was planted on April 15, 1913, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign over Germany. After storm Niklas destroyed it in 2015, a new tree with an 80-centimeter trunk circumference was planted in January 2021.
The linden gave its name to the adjacent Waldstadion Kaiserlinde, now the Ursapharm-Arena an der Kaiserlinde, home ground of SV Elversberg. The club's name is written without the "07" found in older descriptions.
The tree stands on the corner of Lindenstraße and Waldstraße, beside a paved road with the Waldstadion grounds next door. The site is level and open to the street, so it can be reached on foot at any hour; the trunk and crown are best seen from the roadside rather than from the grass verge.
The tree that fell in storm Niklas on 31 March 2015 was over 100 years old. In summer 2015 a flower bed with a large tipped-over planter was laid out at the spot, the pot's flowers spilling out as a reminder of the uprooted linden. The replacement planted on 28 January 2021 was donated by Hans-Jürgen Euschen and his family.
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