A row of radically trimmed oaks between Unter- and Oberherrnhausen is heating the minds of the Eurasburg conservationists.
In spring a rider rode past the oak trees between the lower and upper lords' houses
A rotten branch fell into the road and the horse ran away
Thereupon the owner pruned the trees properly - to the displeasure of some local councils
Eurasburg - The matter had already happened a good three months ago, but the lack of understanding about the crass-looking measure boiled up again at Carola Belloni, energy and environmental officer of the municipality, when she took up the topic again towards the end of the latest municipal council meeting.
The background was an incident in the spring. When a rider was riding past the row of trees, a rotten branch fell down into the street. The horse went through and threw the woman off. The matter went off lightly. The municipal administration then reminded all landowners in writing of their obligations with regard to road safety.
The owner of the 150-year-old oaks that characterize the landscape met this request very carefully by trimming all the branches on the street side.
"The fact is that this has not been particularly successful," stated Belloni.
“The trees were completely massacred.” The environmental officer was particularly annoyed that there was a breeding hole under a sawed-off branch.
Presumably from a woodpecker, whether bats or dormice might also have used the cave in the trunk, can no longer be said.
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Carola Belloni, energy and environmental officer for the municipality of Eurasburg.
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"The gross motor skills of some people are incomprehensible," said Peter Goepfert and added with a shrug: "You can cut a tree one way or another." Alexander Sebald admitted: "It could have been done better." Mayor Moritz Sappl summed it up in one Sentences together: "The owner has created facts, the municipality has fulfilled its duty to maintain safety."
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It is precisely this point that is increasingly causing annoyance. “People want to go into the forest and through the meadows, but when something happens, they immediately look for someone in charge,” said Alexander Sebald. Citizens should be made more aware of “what a great living space they have here”, but they should also take responsibility themselves for the freedom to move around everywhere. “It is unspeakable that the mayor or the municipality are immediately liable if something happens. There can be no more coincidences in life, ”added Carola Belloni. She had researched the Internet and found out: Of around 3,000 road deaths in 2019, 513 drove the car into a tree. 36 people were killed while felling trees. "Nobody was killed by a falling branch",says the eco specialist. She campaigned in the local council “before you pick up your chainsaw, speak to me and involve experts”.
The fact is, it didn't work out very well.
Carola Belloni
Neighbor and party colleague Hans Urban suggested setting up a "war chest" to preserve such natural beauties and setting up 10,000 euros in the next household for "professional landscape maintenance", with which private individuals can "preventively support if something like this has to be done".
In order to preserve the landscape, such habitats should definitely be preserved, says Urban.
"We can still afford the money for it."
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