Dive to the bog-oak
The bog-oak – the precious tree from the depth – is a iridescent, mystic tree with his own charakter. However, the story of their origins is still often told incomplete.
Here you can read a skilled work about the recovery from bog-oaks.
Thousands of years covered, rare and valuable
The bog-oak comes from the deep, so it is not an discrete oak species. This wood can not be planted, which makes it so valuable. The wood of the bog-oak is light grey, blue-grey, dark brown, dark yellow and discolored to deep black.
Wood, over thousands of years covered deep under the surface.
The log of a bog-oak is very strong and resistant. It lies thousands of years airtight buried in the depth. From bog and swamp the bog-oak has its name. However, the bog oak is found in the ground and in the gravel soils of former river courses and today’s gravel pits.
The history of bog oaks – their extraction and use – is related to a bachelor thesis from 1977, with which Ludwig Pertl from Günzburg successfully completed his engineering studies in landscape planning and forestry. The extensive document was developed in cooperation with the veneer producer and bog-oak specialist Josef Rothbucher from Laufen (Bavaria). Just as the bog-oaks were hidden for thousands of years undetected in the bottom of rivers and lakes, so too was this skilled work lost for decades in the archives. Herbert Rothbucher recently rediscovered her.