Finally owner of the station forecourt, the Unterhaching community is now concerned about the old chestnuts.
The trees, which are probably around 100 years old, are said to have a defining character.
The burn crust fungus doesn't care.
Unterhaching - The Hachingen town hall commissioned two reports.
It's about security issues on the busy station forecourt.
And it's about discussing measures to preserve the trees in the long term.
One of the trees, a horse chestnut near the bakery, could no longer be saved and had already been felled.
The dangerous fire crust fungus gave the struck tree the rest. Based on the "expert opinion", it is said from the town hall, a second tree should possibly fall "without further delay" by the end of the month.
Trees should be preserved
At least as far as the second tree is concerned, the "expert opinion" allows for misinterpretations.
According to information from town hall spokesman Simon Hötzl, the chestnuts were numbered differently by the experts, which may lead to different results.
However, Hötzl is not the only thing that troubles the two reviewers' methodology.
The trees had cost him one or the other sleepless night, he admitted at the meeting of the local development committee.
Cost-intensive tree cosmetics or young new trees?
Simon Hötzl was not the only one who saw himself run over by this question from the plenary.
"We haven't got that far yet," replied planning officer Christian Franke: "We want to preserve the trees."
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The old chestnut was completely eaten away by the fungus and therefore had to be felled.
© Martin Becker
It is not entirely clear what the other trees look like.
"We are discussing the expense of maintaining it," Hötzl let the parliamentary groups know.
It will probably not be cheap.
Speaker Franke added: “And that is going to be really expensive,” he added.
Chestnut was a danger
One thing is certain: the horse chestnut, known as “Tree No. 3”, the “middle tree on the side of the bakery”, could not be saved.
For reasons of traffic safety, Hötzl admitted that he had to leave much earlier.
But in order to allow the parliamentary groups to share in the fate of the ailing chestnut, the tree was saved in the committee meeting.
Before that, a particularly rotten branch had been removed from the chestnut.
An alleged "fall scenario", in which no one was harmed, has not been confirmed.
All sorts of things had been done up to then to “No.
3 ”to give a chance.
Acoustic tomography, wood density measurements, all sorts of tensile tests: all of them were unsatisfactory.
The fact that two-thirds of the stand is sealed and the remaining 30 percent are at least heavily compacted certainly didn't do the tree any good.
But that doesn't change the fact that the extent of the core rot is now devastating.
Over 70 percent of the wood substance has broken down.
Stability and break security are no longer given.
What happens to the rest of the chestnuts depends on the results of the reports and the goodwill of the political groups.