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Nr	Name	Beschreibung
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	Glück’s Eichen	Der deutsche Pastor Glück vollendete während seiner Amtszeit in Alūksnē eines der bedeutendsten Werke seine Lebens – er fertigte die erste lettische Bibelübersetzung an. 1685 hatte er das Neue Testament, 1689 das Alte Testament übersetzt und jeweils zum Gedenken an die vollendete Arbeit eine Eiche gepflanzt, beide wachsen dort heute noch.
	The Rutinu maple tree	This is a large, outstanding and expressive tree, Latvia’s thickest Norway Maple (Accer platanoides).
	The Kaive Oak	Most of the great tree’s mighty branches are gone, and among those that are still there, the thickest ones are held up by supports, and the tree’s hollow centre is protected against snow and rain with a little roof. This is the thickest Common Oak (Quercus robur) in Latvia and the Baltic States. Indeed, it is one of the thickest oak trees in all of Northern Europe. The tree is a gorgeous part of the surrounding landscape. There is a car park and an information stand nearby.
	The Vaidavas pine tree	This tree, too, was supposedly planted by the king of Sweden – and upside down, no less.
	The Sasmaka idolatry lime tree of Valdemarpils	This is Latvia’s largest small-leaved lime tree (Tilia cordata). Some of its mighty branches are held up by supports. There are large holes in the trunk that have been covered up to prevent water entering the holes and causing even more rot. Just like many other trees of this size, this was a sacred tree in the past
	The Zilenu ash tree	This is the thickest European Ash (Fraxius excelsior) in Latvia and the Baltic States. The homestead where the tree is found is the memorial museum of the painter Ģederts Eliass, and for that reason, the tree is sometimes also known as the Eliass ash tree.
	The Meru oak tree	This tree is the one in Latvia and perhaps the Baltic States that has the densest foliage. Its crown measures 33 x 31 metres.
	The remaining fragment of the Zauskas pine tree	In 1951, when it died, the pine tree had a circumference of 4.63 metres. It was the thickest pine tree in the Baltic States This is one of the few trees with such a long history for which age has been determined by counting up circles – 370 years. All that’s left is a conserved part of the stump at the side of the road. Cross-sections of the stump are on exhibit at the Latvian Museum of Nature and the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum.
	The Ives spruce	This is the thickest and mightiest Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) in Latvia. Its monolithic trunk, with its small holes, is unusual. The tree is in the overgrown park of the former Īve Estate, behind the ruins of the mansion.