Linde am Thurn

The Linde am Thurn is a winter lime tree standing on a grassy hill where the Haunsberg begins to slope down in Salzburg province. Its trunk splits about two metres above the ground into several main branches, forming a crown roughly fifteen metres wide. The tree reaches just over sixteen metres in height, and its trunk measures 2.3 metres around.

It marks the highest point of the Berndorf bei Salzburg municipal boundary at 687 metres above sea level. August Haberl, known locally as Kalchgruberbauer, planted the lime in 1912. Today the land and the tree belong to the Salzlechner family, who also run the inn called z’Schwand.

Declared a protected natural monument in 1992, the linden now stands within a quiet meadow landscape. Visitors find a single large tree surrounded by open grassland, with distant views across the Salzach valley. The site is reached by a short farm track that climbs from the valley road to the hilltop.