The Landesbund für Vogelschutz acquired the Ebenbergfilz from the property of a community of heirs.
It is in a hidden place in Dietramszell.
Dietramszell
- If you don't know the location, you can hardly imagine it: In the area southwest of the Dietramszeller Leonhardi Chapel, hidden behind a forest belt, there is the Ebenbergfilz, an upland moor of around 14.7 hectares.
It is mainly thanks to the initiative of real estate agent Andreas Kopka from Stetten that the district group of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) was able to acquire the raised bog in order to restore it.
"This is our biggest purchase in 40 years," said LBV district chairman Walter Wintersberger this week during an official inspection.
And with a smile he added: "Dietramszell is gradually becoming our environmental hotspot."
Andreas Kopka explained that it was "an affair of the heart" for him, "that the moor can be returned to nature".
"All monetary thoughts were in the background".
The estate agent was commissioned by a community of heirs with 16 parties to market the areas from the estate of the Warngauer Josef Rieker.
He used a total of around 61 hectares of agricultural and forestry land in the communities of Dietramszell, Hartpenning, Valley and Warngau "to the exclusion of property speculators".
Kopka spoke of an attractive offer for the LBV.
In addition, the acquisition was funded by the State Ministry for Environment and Consumer Protection.
In recent years the moor has been extremely bushy
Birgit Weis, LBV moorland supervisor in Tölzer Land, used photos to show how the Ebenbergfilz has become more and more bushy over the past 20 years.
This can be traced back to the attempts in the years 1960 to 1980 to drain the moor for reasons of speculation.
"Nevertheless, with its approximately three-meter-thick layer of peat, some areas are still in a near-natural state."
Also read: Ebersberger has Ascholdinger felt renatured
Elisabeth Pleyl, specialist in peatland restoration at the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen District Office, pointed out the advantages of a functioning raised bog: rare habitats of endangered plant and animal species are preserved, the restoration of the bog's own water balance has a positive effect on groundwater and surface water, and flood peaks become cut.
Last but not least, the moor also acts as a CO2 store.
"After the renaturation, about 15 tons of CO2 equivalents per hectare and year can be saved." The peatland renaturation carried out in the district on around 323 hectares will reduce the total annual greenhouse gas emissions by over 6000 tons of CO2 equivalents.
Also read: Environment Minister visits the Eglinger Moor
Not only the drainage trenches have been preserved from the drainage attempts in the Ebenbergfilz, even plastic pipes still protrude from the ground.
"Now we first have to locate the trenches that have already been overgrown in order to then finally close them again with a special excavator with extra-wide chains," said Birgit Weis, explaining the method of renaturation that is to be tackled soon.
