Benjamin Wand - Visiting the '999' trees

The numbered trees

The trees in Berlin are numbered. Here is a wonderful map with the trees and their numbers, and here the data can be downloaded. There are inconsistencies between both data sets though.

As a hobby I'm visiting the trees with the number 999 and take a photo each. This is where they are:

Tree 2337 at Friedhof Heerstraße is hororary member since it has Object ID 999 on the database.

The table

OBJECTID	Area	Borough	Species	Visited
1651	Friedhof Heerstraße	Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf	Pinus nigra ssp. Nigra	✅
999	Friedhof Heerstraße		Pinus sylvestris	✅
37288	Ruhwaldpark		Quercus robur	✅
29443	Volkspark Wilmersdorf		Tilia platyphyllos	✅
36563	Fließwiese Ruhleben - NSG		Acer platanoides	✅
39602	Waldschulallee 83-93, 95		Acer platanoides	❌
125264	Volkspark Friedrichshain	Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg	Acer pseudoplatanus	❌
230221	Gudrunstraße 20 / Friedhof	Lichtenberg	Populus nigra	❌
330256	Fennpfuhlpark		Salix alba	✅
414657	GA um Großen Herzbergteich		Acer platanoides	✅
715417	Blumberger Damm	Marzahn-Hellersdorf	Quercus rubra	❌
411358	Ahrensfelder Berge		Robinia pseudoacacia	❌
727510	Märkische Allee Teil C		Fagus sylvatica	✅
333555	Schleipfuhl, 161		Quercus robur	❌
838059	Mehrower Allee		Acer platanoides	❌
8236	Britz-Süd-Grünanlage	Neukölln	Quercus rubra	✅
305151	Friedhof Columbiadamm		Betula spec.	❌
13527	Rudower Fließ-Grünanlage		Acer negundo	✅
388417	BBR-Grünanlage		Acer negundo	❌
375188	Fennpfuhl-Grünanlage		Acer campestre	✅
808947	Waltersdorfer Chaussee		Acer campestre	✅
10788	Parkfriedhof Neukölln		Carpinus betulus	✅
298767	Park am Buschkrug-Spielplatz II		Carpinus betulus	❌
332039	Fritz-Reuter-Allee-Grünanlage		Carpinus betulus	❌
11641	Hochspannungsweg-Grünanlage		Tilia cordata	❌
139186	Park Am Weißen See	Pankow	Tilia euchlora	❌
159427	Schlosspark Buch		Tilia euchlora	❌
155937	Schönholzer Heide (ost)		Robinia pseudoacacia	✅
169039	Am Posseberg I		Robinia pseudoacacia	❌
297616	Ernst-Thälmann-Park		Pinus strobus	❌
175720	Schmöckpfuhlgrabengrünzug		Salix alba	❌
152220	Schlosspark Schönhausen		Acer platanoides	❌
385872	Schönholzer Heide (west)		Acer platanoides	✅
572115	Heerstraße	Spandau	Platanus acerifolia	❌
400195	Wilhelm-von-Siemens-Park, extensiv		Carpinus betulus	✅
321670	Gutspark Neukladow-GA		Robinia pseudoacacia	✅
367892	Nördlicher Rieselfeldabfanggraben		Robinia pseudoacacia	❌
47098	Finkenpark WG	Steglitz-Zehlendorf	Quercus spec.	✅
261459	Volkspark Mariendorf - Gartendenkmal (Übl.)	Tempelhof-Schöneberg	Pseudotsuga menziesii	✅
411214	Volkspark Lichtenrade		Pinus sylvestris	✅
91609	Der Insulaner - Grünanlage		Acer platanoides	❌

The images

Black pine trunk with '999' pinned — Black pine on Friedhof Heerstraße

European beech trunk with '999' pinned — European beech in Biesdorf

Norway maple trunk with '999' pinned — Norway maple at Fließwiese Ruhleben

Black Locust trunk with '999' pinned — Black Locust at Gutspark Neukladow

Field maple trunk with '999' pinned — Field maple at Fennpfuhlpark in Britz

Red oak trunk with '999' pinned — Red oak an Britz-Süd-Grünanlage

Box elder trunk with '999' pinned — Box elder at Rudower Fließ

Fiel maple trunk with '999' pinned — Field maple at Waltersdorfer Chaussee

Oak trunk with '999' pinned — Oak at Finkenpark

Large-leaved linden trunk with '999' pinned — Large-leaved linden at Volkspark Wilmersdorf

common hornbeam trunk with '999' pinned — Common hornbeam at Jungfernheide

Scotch pine trunk with '999' pinned — Scotch pine at Volkspark Lichtenrade

Douglas fir trunk with '999' pinned — Douglas fir at Volkspark Mariendorf

Scots pine with '2337' pinned — Honorary Scots pine 2337 on Friedhof Heerstraße

English oak trunk with '999' pinned — English oak at Ruhwaldpark

Norway maple trunk with '999' sprayed — Norway maple at Herzberg

White willow trunk with '999' pinnes — White willow at Fennpfuhlpark

No success

Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

The Waldschulallee tree isn’t accessible since it is on a school property.

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

The tree at Volkspark Friedrichshain didn't have its number tag.

Lichtenberg

Tree 997 and 1000 on Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde could be found. Suspected tree 999 didn't have its number.

Marzahn-Hellersdorf

The trees at Mehrower Allee, Ahrensberger Berge, Schleipfuhl and Blumberger Damm didn't have their number tags.

Neukölln

The tree at Friedhof Columbiadamm is cut down, the stump was found. The tree at BBR-Grünanlage was fallen over, the root stock was overgrown with ivy.

The trees at Park am Buschkrug-Spielplatz II, Hochspannungsweg-Grünanlage and Fritz-Reuter-Allee-Grünanlage didn't have their number tags.

Pankow

There is data inconsistency and no pinned numbers in the 999 area of trees at Schlosspark Buch.

The white pine at Ernst-Thälmann-Park, Salix alba at Schmöckpfuhlgrabengrünzug, linden at Park am Weißen See and the Norway maple at Schlosspark Schönhausen didn't have their number tags.

The Black Locust at Am Posseberg couldn't be found and was likely cut down.

Spandau

The tree at Nördlicher Rieselfeldabfanggraben couldn't be visited due to being in a natural reserve. As fas as I could tell from the street, it probably exists but didn't have its number tag.

The tree at Heerstraße that was supposed to be tree number 999 had a tag 688, and some trees in the area had two tags with different numbers.

Tempelhof-Schöneberg

The suspected tree at Insulaner didn't have its number tag.

Text last updated: March 9th 2026