Stock Photo - PRODUCTION - 21 October 2022, Saxony, Collm: Eight-year-old Helene looks into the crown of the approximately 800-year-old summer lime tree at the cemetery in Collm. The lime tree is now one of Germany's national heritage trees. Many hundred-year-old trees are included in this circle with the aim of protecting and caring for them so that they can live to be more than 1,000 years old. The Collmer Linde is the 21st National Heritage Tree nationwide. The Collmer Linde, which is often described as being 1000 years old, is probably closer to 800 years old, according to the assessment of experts. The tree is a good place to look at how it has aged. About half of the linden tree still consists of its original trunk and the other half of new shoots that it has formed during its long life. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa. - Collm/Saxony/Germany