If you drive from Eichenau to Emmering, you can't miss it: Large trees are felled along the disused railway embankment from the Hitler era. Why was a mystery at first. Only the persistent research of a Tagblatt reporter brought the truth to light - and it has several facets.
Gröbenzell / Olching / Emmering - Harvesters and woodworkers are active between Olching and Emmering but also between Gröbenzell and Olching. Trees fall along the disused railway embankment, and shrubs are also removed. The work was initially an absolute shock for Andreas Müller. He has lived near the railway embankment in Gröbenzell for 50 years.
Müller has seen how a once bare, empty and disused railway embankment developed into a thriving biotope during this time. "This is now being flattened," he thought to himself. Bushes and bushes, the living space of many living things, are completely cut down. He therefore turned to the Tagblatt on the matter.
The Groebenzell women Chandani Barbara Sittl and Ariane Zuber, chairman of the local conservation association, were also horrified. Just like Olching's Green City Councilor Ingrid Jaschke, they asked themselves what the reason for the action was. "Road safety obligations are out of the question," says Jaschke. A danger to the train traffic from falling branches, such as after the hurricane Sabine, is not possible on this railway embankment. After all, there were no trains on it - there weren't even tracks.
That's what the Lower Nature Conservation Authority says
Even the train itself was initially puzzled by demand for Tagblatt. "The DB specialist service has not made any green cuts here, let alone clearing," it said. Obviously an error.
Petra Heber from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority in the District Office in Fürstenfeldbruck first shed light on the dark. And that says: Of course the train has become active here. This is to create the compensation area for the conversion and barrier-free expansion of the Buchenau train station in Fürstenfeldbruck. In other words, where the railway seals there, it must create ecologically valuable replacements elsewhere according to the planning approval procedure.
However, only trees whose stability was no longer guaranteed were felled on the disused railway embankment. These were ash trees that were affected by ash extinction. The trees are repeatedly attacked by fungal spores in summer, which then penetrate into the shoots. The old railway embankment is affected by this tree disease.
Oaks, maple trees or hornbeams could remain. According to Petra Heber, the nature conservation authority also cut shrubs, but these would sprout again.
Workers were also working on the old railway embankment in the Emmering area. Trunks infested with ash dieback also had to be felled here. But for security reasons, as Heber explains. The sick trees were about to fall onto a bike path and a road.
Ariana Zuber from the Federation of Nature Conservation is nevertheless critical: she would have liked the population to be informed in advance about a measure like this deforestation - and the reason for it.
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