Bent trees in Gryfino Poland.. (Any answers)

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Could it be the species of tree?

if you read it they suspect it is man made and has something to do with the ship building that went on in Szczeczin.

When you say man made,do you mean bred that way?

It is possible that the early Poles had the knowledge to train trees to grow very much like the Orientals do with BONSAI

I believe it is possible,I also believe that it cold be natural.

Not that early since they were planted in 1934 and not Polish either, since Gryfino was Greifenhagen, Germany in those days.

The trees were trained that way as saplings for use in carpentry. It takes about 10 years and is easy. Not unusual at all. the only curiosity is that due to the war and the loss of those territories by the forest's owner there was nobody who understood what they were for and therefore they were never harvested and the pines grew to full size.

The trees were trained that way as saplings for use in carpentry. It takes about 10 years and is easy. Not unusual at all. the only curiosity is that due to the war and the loss of those territories by the forest's owner there was nobody who understood what they were for and therefore they were never harvested and the pines grew to full size.[/quote

Excellent answer.. It all makes sense.. Even the part that the location was in Germany.

The same thing is also done in Poland, sometimes even now, but the trees are usually felled young.

That is a good answer,I definitely can't refute it,seeing how I know next to nothing about trees.

Jon. You brought up an interesting point. After your explanation, I went into Google and found out that the western part of Poland was under German rule.. My Mom was born in Torun.. This was all a part of Pomerania. She told me stories of her early life in Torun.. She attended a German school and was taught to accept the Kaiser as the leader.. She spoke fluent Polish and German.. But along with her family they considered themselves Poles..

Question?? How did the Kasuhbians figure into this?

Quietly. Most were farmers living in fairly cut off villages so political issues went on without them. Those who lived in cities didnt have it so easy, as Gunther Grass (himself Kaszubian) said, they were ''too Polish for the Germans and too German for the Poles''. Nevertheless national and political identity wasnt always clear cut. The population was a mix of different identities, with many mixed families. German was themdominant language in public life, whatever tha language used at home.

One sad story is about the expulsion of some of the Prussian locals after the war. They weren't Gernams at all, nor were they Kashubians, Polonised Grmans or Germanised Poles. They were just the original inhabitants of the region who weren't supporters of the 1948 Polish government and didn't have the language skills to pretend they were Polish enough to avoid expulsion.

No, it was not. Torun was part of Pomerelia, Gryfino was part of Pomerania. One was inhabited by Poles and Germans, the other was purely German. One belonged mostly to Poland, the other one was part of the HRE since the Middle Ages.

A related story: Live Oak, Quercus virginiana, aka Coast Live Oak.



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[Moved from]: European Tree of the Year

What a cool award....one of the best EVER!!!!

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Important: Not so much the beauty is the deciding facter (is there something like an "ugly" tree???) but the history the tree has witnessed.

Poland entered the contest with the "Kneeling Tree" and made it even to the finals.

The story of this tree:
treeoftheyear.org/Stromy/Klecici-strom

Go vote!!!! :)

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Forest of Gryfino Poland

What are the Polish peoples theories of what happened to this forest to make it so peculiar.
I have read many explanations.
I found it to be an interesting tid bit of Polish history.

Aliens and UFOs of course.

King Kong played with those trees.