For some people it remains a dream to harvest vegetables or sow flowers in their own garden.
Many municipalities have therefore set up community gardens in recent years.
The “Penzberg together” faction wants an inner-city garden that is open to everyone, including in Penzberg.
As early as the 19th century,
Penzberg
towns gave their population areas for urban horticulture.
At that time, the aim was to improve the supply situation.
Allotments also often served this purpose.
In recent times this urban horticulture has experienced a new bloom, often under the name "Urban Gardening" or "Urban Horticulture".
Today it is more about closeness to nature, sustainable consumption and community.
The parliamentary group of "Penzberg together" (PM) has now submitted an application to the town hall, with the proposal to release an urban area for a community garden.
The city, so the request, should check “whether there is a centrally located and easily accessible area for this purpose”.
At the same time, it should sound out whether there is interest in it among the population and in schools.
The PM group also provides suggestions as to where such a community garden could be created.
An easily accessible, centrally located area would be the sculpture garden at Schlossbichl near the grammar school and the secondary school, according to the parliamentary group.
In her opinion, a garden there could also be used by the schools for teaching projects.
Another suggestion, “although less centrally located”, is the old railway embankment, which is already used as a pedestrian and cycle path as a local recreation area.
In order to find a suitable area, she recommends taking a look at the urban development concept (ISEK), which shows the city's green spaces.
There are already similar projects in the area
Such community gardens exist under different names in the region.
In Münsing, the local horticultural association operates a "garden sharing".
That means: several hobby gardeners share a plot of land.
In Benediktbeuern it is the community that has made an area available for several years.
The "Tölzer Acker" has existed since 2017.
In 2019, the community field was created in Seeshaupt.
There are other community gardens in Seehausen, Geretsried and Lenggries, and there are also many in Munich.
In the opinion of “Penzberg each other”, the discussion about the wide felt system has shown how important gardening is.
Nature-loving leisure activities in the area had received a new boost from the corona pandemic.
In essence, according to the parliamentary group, community gardens or “urban gardening” are about the following: Urban areas would be greener and more beautiful, the art of gardening would be anchored in the knowledge of the population, awareness of the origin of food would be heightened, and community action counteract isolation and the formation of prejudices.
She also sees a natural garden design as an opportunity to preserve biodiversity.
Using examples from large cities, the parliamentary group explains that it makes no difference whether community gardens are “between residential buildings, surrounded by roaring traffic in a fallow square or even just on the edge of streets.” They just have to be easily accessible.
This, she writes, distinguishes them from the communal fields that are more on the outskirts, which have recently been created more and more often to give the opportunity to grow vegetables and fruit.
The application also states that the revitalized inner-city green spaces not only give citizens the opportunity to be creative and sociable, the gardens, which are often lovingly tended, could also have a style-forming effect on private open spaces.
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