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The second Dießen pasture also has to give way

2021-10-12T05:33:30.098Z


Dießen - Now it has been decided: The willow that characterizes the townscape at the confluence of the Mühlbach and Ammersee is now being felled in the course of the renovation of the lake complex, despite massive protests. This was decided by the municipal council in a special meeting convened at short notice with 15: 4 votes. In the lively discussion, several reasons emerged for the “yes” to immediate precipitation.


Dießen - Now it has been decided: The willow that characterizes the townscape at the confluence of the Mühlbach and Ammersee is now being felled in the course of the renovation of the lake complex, despite massive protests.

This was decided by the municipal council in a special meeting convened at short notice with 15: 4 votes.

In the lively discussion, several reasons emerged for the “yes” to immediate precipitation.

As the architect Valerie Spalding from the engineering office Engelsmann-Peters explained, a traffic problem arose despite the contractual requirement for the maintenance of the pasture during the work on the part of the construction company. The heavy equipment for inserting the sheet piling cannot get past the tree and parts of the far-reaching roots would have to be cut for the inner sheet piling and civil engineering work. Cutting back a third of the crown is also unavoidable so that the rams can get past.


The pasture would not survive this, as Rainer Fuß from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the District Office confirmed.

Mayor Sandra Perzul had got his backing from him when it came to the inevitable felling.

Even an elaborate temporary transplant of the tree and return after the bank work is by no means a guarantee that the tree will then recover.

At around 50 years of age, he is simply too old for that.


The pasture also has "dry damage", added local councilor Franz Sanktjohanser (Citizen of Dießen).

Due to the dry summers of recent years, the tree, which was asphalted up to the trunk, received too little water.

The discolored leaves are a visible sign.


Time pressure and costs were decisive for the approval of the felling.

Construction freeze and new planning with mandatory water law approval would take months if not years.

In addition, costs in the six-digit range and the renewed failure of the pottery market are to be expected.


At the insistence of local councilor Florian Zarbo, the decision was taken to include the administration's task of obliging the planners and construction company to assume the costs of an already tall young pasture as a replacement.

The community would plant a twin tree on the other side of the Mühlbach: last summer, the pasture opposite had to be felled.

Experts and nature conservation authorities had diagnosed damage and fungal attack as well as the risk of branch breakage.


Michael Hofmann (BP) and the Greens Gabriele Übler, Dr.

Holger Kramer and Miriam Anton.

One consolation: Since willows grow very quickly, there will be new "watchmen at the Mühlbach" in a few years.

This is what the Dießen painter Annunciata Foresti called the willows, which she immortalized countless times in pictures.

Source: merkur

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