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2021-07-12T06:58:20.587Z


Krailling - The district of Starnberg and the municipality of Krailling want to invest several hundred thousand euros in a project of "BayernNetzNatur" on the area of ​​the former pioneer training area northwest of the KIM in the coming years.


Krailling - The district of Starnberg and the municipality of Krailling want to invest several hundred thousand euros in a project of "BayernNetzNatur" on the area of ​​the former pioneer training area northwest of the KIM in the coming years.

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- In total, it is about 760 hectares between Krailling, Gauting and the A 96. 226 hectares of which are the tank farm, the operators of which are very concerned about ecological issues and want to use large parts of the area as an eco-account.

Another part belongs to the federal government, some areas are private - the owners can participate, but do not have to.

The project is part of “BayernNetzNatur”, which is currently pursuing around 400 projects of this type with high levels of government funding.

The one for the pioneer site is to run from 2022 to 2027 under the sponsorship of the district and the municipality of Krailling.

The district council's environmental committee has already approved the project, and the district committee is discussing the project this week, although it is not entirely undisputed.

13 hectares of national importance

The area is large, but significant habitats can only be identified on partial areas. Jan Vancura from the PAN planning office is in charge of the Kraillinger project and estimates that 31 hectares are nationwide and 13 are nationwide. According to Peter Drefahl from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority at the District Office, there are 207 animal and plant species listed in the area, including six endangered, 34 endangered, 92 endangered and 132 species on the warning list. In the area there are mainly dry biotopes, lime and silicate grasslands and the like. The endangered species identified there include sand violets, clove-leaved hawkweed, European gentian, woodlark and the wryneck, smooth snake, green toad or blue-winged wasteland insect and forest meadow bird."If we want to maintain that, we clearly have to take action," said Drefahl.

The problem is that even in inaccessible parts of the area, these natural spaces are threatened because, among other things, they are overgrown.

Open land areas should therefore be linked, areas cleared and regularly mowed.

Top soil is to be removed in some areas, and new small bodies of water are also to be created - everything to give the species a habitat.

Visitor management on the pioneer site and in the tank farm

Jan Vancura also presented measures to guide visitors to the pioneer site and the tank farm, which will allow guided tours. He thinks of a blackboard and information hut, website, information material for school classes and the like. The project includes a maintenance concept including measures, possibly also the acquisition of forest areas. A project supervisor should control everything. A maintenance and development plan is planned within the area on the eastern part of the former training area.

What does this bring for the district and the region? Drefahl and Vancura's list is long: acceptance and image, concentration of funds on significant areas, it is a showcase project, a local recreation area and much more. And farmers in the area could benefit from the measures. The district councilors Martin Fink and Georg Zankl (both CSU) did not really want to believe that. Fink found the area too big (“megalomania”) and wanted to reduce it in vain. The owners of the private land did not know anything about the project, he complained - although the project had already been presented to both the district and Krailling more than a year ago. Zankl feared that the owners would suffer disadvantages. Drefahl and District Administrator Stefan Frey tried to refute this, after all, everything is based on voluntariness.Frey could not identify a constellation for a conflict: “It is not a building area.” In addition, there is already a kind of biotope network there. Nevertheless, three CSU district councilors voted against it.

Total costs of 614,000 euros

The district will be the project sponsor and will almost completely advance the total costs of 614,000 euros over five years.

However, very high funding is in prospect, which the Environment Committee also makes a condition for implementation.

The bottom line is that the district costs EUR 28,500 per year, and the Krailing community almost EUR 3,000.

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Nature worth protecting in the west of Krailling.

© Michael Stürzer

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Source: merkur

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