The Arboretum de Xertigny (4 hectares), also known as the Arboretum du Château des Brasseurs, is a municipal

arboretum An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...

and park located at Mairie 1, le Château,

Xertigny Xertigny () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Xertigny station has rail connections to Épinal, Lure and Belfort. Population Geography The Côney forms most of the commune's northwestern border. Poi ...

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. It is open daily without charge. The arboretum was established in 1994 to protect the former park of the Château des Brasseurs (Brewers' Castle), originally created in 1888 by local brewery owner Victor Champion, who planted a number of trees from

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and

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when laying out the park. Although Xertigny's brewery closed in 1966 and the château now houses the town government, the arboretum preserves many of the park's old trees, including fine specimens of ''

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'', '' Cladastris lutea'',

Douglas fir The Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii'') is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. It is native to western North America and is also known as Douglas-fir, Douglas spruce, Oregon pine, and Columbian pine. There are three va ...

, ''

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'', and ''

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'' (45 meters). The adjacent Bois Beaudoin offers further woodland paths. A village legend recounts that Champion discovered the treasure of the

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in these woods, which provided the fortune for creating château and park; the location of its discovery is duly marked.

References

Arboretum de Xertigny

BaLaDO.fr entry (French)

Trésor des Régions description (French)

* Dominique Auzias et al., ''Le Petit Futé Lorraine Vosges'', Petit Futé, 2008, page 328. . Xertigny, Arboretum de Xertigny, Arboretum de {{France-garden-stub

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