Memmingen - Not only the ash dieback is affecting the ash trees in the urban area.
The Hallimasch fungus also attacks - often undetected - the large main roots of the ash trees, which then die off.
“The stability is then no longer given and the trees can tip over in very strong winds. What we absolutely want to prevent “, informs the head of the garden and cemetery office Michael Koch. The problem has been cropping up again and again in Memmingen's Pfaffenwinkel for a number of years. Arborists have now marked the infected trees so that the sick specimens can be sawed down as soon as possible. Unfortunately, no large vehicles can be used in the vicinity of the residential development, so the felling by a professional company will be more complex. Since the urban area is currently extensively felled and cut off, it may also be that the trunks and branches have to be stored longer until they are removed by employees of the garden and cemetery office. Then from the great tribesAs in previous years, seating furniture is being created again.
In order to continue to provide tall trees in the Pfaffenwinkel area, 15 beeches have been planted there in recent years.
However, most of the regeneration around the extinguishing water lake is done by the plants on site.
“It is important to us to keep large and old trees as long as possible.
And in addition to that, to plant new trees again and again in the entire city area ”, says Mayor Dr.
Hans-Martin Steiger.
(MK)