What is "storkeegen"

Storkeegen was a pedunculate oak located in Jægerspris Nordskov, near the town Jægerspris in Denmark. The remains of Storkegen are located in the same forest as Kongeegen and Snoegen.

All what remains of the ancient oak is a piece of the trunk. In 1974 the trunk broke, just above the lowest branch at a height of four meters. Because the lowest branch survived it was able to keep the tree alive but in 1981 hurricane finished the tree. It is estimated that the tree was 800 years old.

Storkegen is named after a the nest of a white stork who build his nest in the tree somewhere during the nineteenth century. In 1843 the painter Peter Christian Thamsen Skovgaard painted Storkeegen and named this paining Eg med Storkerede i Nordskoven ved Jægerspris. This work became part of the Danish Royal Collection.