Schluttenbacher Linde, Natural monument tree in Schluttenbach, Ettlingen, Germany

The Schluttenbacher Linde is a summer linden (Tilia platyphyllos) standing just past the village entrance of Schluttenbach, in Ettlingen. It is protected as a natural monument together with the Lindenbrunnen under the name "Linde und Dorfbrunnen im Brunnengärtle". Its remaining strong branches were trained upward after the 1867 storm to form a new crown.

A plaque on the tree states it was planted in 937, though local chronicler Wolfgang Lorch doubted the ages of 900 or 1,100 years attributed to it. The Lindenbrunnen beside it is first recorded in the Schöllbronn village law of 1485. In 1867 a storm tore off the summit, which smashed the roofs of houses opposite; the remaining strong branches were trained upwards to form a new crown. Iron bands were added in the 1930s and the trunk was walled in 1940, the masonry removed in 1976.

The tree and the Lindenbrunnen form Schluttenbach's main landmark just past the village entrance; the spring is first recorded in the Schöllbronner village law of 1485. The pair is protected under the name "Linde und Dorfbrunnen im Brunnengärtle".

The tree stands just past the village entrance of Schluttenbach, beside the Lindenbrunnen fountain, together forming the village landmark. Since 1958 the Munich tree surgeon Alexander Volgger has treated it every two years. Iron bands were fixed in the 1930s, and the trunk was walled in masonry from 1940 until its removal in 1976.

The linden is treated every two years since 1958 by the Munich tree surgeon Alexander Volgger, a care regime running for more than six decades. A plaque on the trunk gives 937 as the planting year, though local chronicler Wolfgang Lorch doubted the tree could be that old.