Dicke Tannen

Thickness fir is an approximately 4.2 -acre nature reserve about 1.5 km south-west of the village Hohegeiß resin, a district of Brown location in the Lower Saxon district of Goslar. It is the site of more than 50 m height and stem diameters of 100 to 180 cm mightiest spruce in northern Germany. Since 1989, the trees are specially protected as a natural monument.

The up to 350 -year-old Norway spruce ( volksmundlich also called red fir ) were first mentioned in the late 18th century in forestry certificates. Their survival owe the trees in the first place their location on the steep, wind-protected slopes of narrow Wolfsbachtals; secondly, the fact that they could hardly get at because of their size with the former axes and saws and proved to be the removal of the wood as nearly impossible. Not least because the area is no longer used for forestry for over 200 years and now provides an almost jungle-like impression.

While in 1900 just under 120 trees were counted in 1960 85 and 1980 58 copies, only 23 healthy and two dead trees are currently receiving. In addition to achieving the natural age limit also changes in the environment are likely to have contributed to it. The THW had nine cases in 2001 of the largest, dead giants that threatened to fall on the trails, by explosives, because the stem diameter and the condition of spruce made ​​a precipitation with chainsaws impossible.

The old trail through the heartland of the thicknesses fir is locked for security reasons. But even from the new way the pines are seen. Thickness fir is included as No. 45 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.