More than 20 trees or groups of trees in the district are natural monuments.
We explain what makes them so special in a series with a loose sequence.
Today: nine beeches that don't have an easy time of it.
You are at a place in Pöcking that reminds of the disempowerment of King Ludwig II as well as the last Ice Age.
Pöcking - Like a tent roof, the nine beeches stretch their leaves over the Pöckinger Minister Hill in summer. If they could see, in the leafless months they would see Lake Starnberg and the Alpine chain beyond. It cannot be taken for granted that the trees up there have been standing in this splendor for an estimated 100 to 150 years.
For Albert Luppart, who has lived in Pöcking since he was five, the nine beeches are just that: of course, have always been there and, as a natural monument, above all worthy of protection. The 59-year-old is not only vice mayor and cultural advisor, but also the municipal council's marketing advisor. His first sentence at the meeting on the Minister Hill: "That is one of the most beautiful points of Pöcking." As a child, Luppart raced down the slope there, as an adult he now picks up a crushed can from the ground and says: "It's always Ramadama with me." Otherwise he is only busy swarming during the half hour on the hill. Over the nine beeches. "This is awesome. We are happy to have something like this with us. Nature creates its own beauty, you can't manage that. ”Luppart would think it would be good ifif the community, as the property and tree owner, would put up a plaque to explain the natural monument and what is behind it. "Many don't know that."
Jürgen Ehrhardt does.
He is a district consultant for garden culture and land maintenance.
“Everything we see and love in the landscape was created especially during the last Worm Ice Age,” he says.
And so be it with the Minister Hill.
It is one of the legacies of the lateral moraine of a glacier - a linear band that runs along the west bank of the lake and is particularly pronounced at this point.
The height of the Ice Age was around 20,000 years ago.
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A special example: one of the beeches that fans out towards the top.
© Dagmar Rutt
According to Ehrhardt, it is very difficult to determine exactly how old the nine beeches are. “There are younger trees that are just as thick as they are,” he says. “The location on the hilltop is a lean location. They only get the water that actually ends up there. ”And they are directly exposed to every storm. “A beech has already broken off,” recalls the land maintenance specialist. In plain English: the nine beech trees don't have it easy on the Minister Hill. But they are doing well. They owe their status as a natural monument primarily to their special hilltop location. “But they still wouldn't have received it as a run-of-the-mill trees,” says Ehrhardt. Particularly striking is the beech with the monstrous trunk that divides into three trunks at a height of 1.50 meters. And those who, reminiscent of a chain carousel, fan out.
But if the place plays such a big role - why is the Minister Hill actually called what it is called? Because the Bavarian Minister Johann Michael Adam Freiherr von Lutz moved around the corner in 1875, at Feldafinger Straße 18, into a yellow, three-story, late classicist cross-gable villa. It is also a monument. “Along with Maximilian von Montgelas, Lutz was one of the most important designers in Bavaria. He changed Bavaria, stamped his signature on it like no other, ”wrote Christine Peuker from the Pöckinger community archive in an article about him. For example, Lutz initiated important school reforms. He felt obliged to the state and could not agree to a further increasing debt burden caused by King Ludwig II. Peuker continues: “As an ambitious bureaucrat who had learned to think in pennies,Lutz could never understand that someone threw millions of guilders out of the window for palace buildings. After negotiations with Prince Luitpold, Ludwig's uncle and successor, he commissioned expert reports from neurologists who were supposed to classify the king as incapable of governing for life and incapacitate him. Lutz was therefore very much to blame for the tragic end of King Ludwig II. He told his friends that this decision was the hardest of his life. ”Lutz died in 1890 in his villa.Lutz was therefore very much to blame for the tragic end of King Ludwig II. He told his friends that this decision was the hardest of his life. ”Lutz died in 1890 in his villa.Lutz was therefore very much to blame for the tragic end of King Ludwig II. He told his friends that this decision was the hardest of his life. ”Lutz died in 1890 in his villa.
Above it, on the hill, the impermanence soon shows itself when the leaves fall. But the beeches remain.
