Big sacrifice for noise protection: Pullach has to cut 52 trees
Created: 01/13/2022, 05:30 AM
From: Andrea Kästle
The old noise protection wall along the B 11 between Pater Augustin-Rösch-Straße and the Edeka is currently being rebuilt.
© Andrea Kästle
The new noise protection wall that the Pullachers want to build along the B 11 has never been a project that has unanimously excited the local council.
Now there is new trouble.
Pullach
- 47 trees had to be felled in the southern area for the construction project, not everyone liked that.
Now Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens) brought her committee a new "bad news" on the matter: Another 52 trees have to give way.
The town council agreed that this was bad news.
"I was offended myself and quite angry," said the town hall chief even after the meeting.
"Why is that only now noticeable?" Asked Christine Eisenmann (CSU) during the deliberations.
The extent of the clearing was not foreseeable
Ultimately, it was not possible to estimate the extent of the necessary clearing work from the outset, explained Peter Rappel from the responsible company Steinbacher Consult, who had come to the meeting specially. Only now has it been found that the ramming piles for the soundproof wall have to be driven deeper than 90 centimeters into the earth; however, this brings them too close to the roots of the trees. One could no longer take responsibility for their stability, the Lower Nature Conservation Authority saw it no differently, which has meanwhile also been on site.
The faction of the WiP, which has never gained much from the project because they think the new noise protection wall is oversized, also expressed its displeasure at the meeting about the additional effort required for felling.
"Cut down 52 trees so that the motorists can drive through", he doesn't like that, said Reinhard Vennekold, all the less since Pullach is a green community.
His parliamentary colleague Cornelia Zechmeister also said that she is sorry for every tree that has settled in the “green oasis” next to the B 11.
Smaller version with a speed limit?
The committee then considered whether the noise barrier, the predecessor version of which was 30 years old and more than dilapidated, could be made a little smaller if the maximum speed allowed in the area were reduced at the same time.
Caroline Voit from Pullach Plus and Fabian Müller-Klug (Greens) found such a solution attractive, but were quickly slowed down by Tausendfreund: You could apply for a Tempo 50 regulation for the federal highway, the chances that it would then be approved , however, went to zero.
Replanting the wall
Meanwhile, after the meeting, Bernhard Rückerl, Head of the Pullach Environment Agency, explained once more that the vegetation of the earth wall on which the noise protection wall is standing is registered as a biotope - and will be preserved as such.
However, the diversity of species in the area is kept within narrow limits, at the same time the Japanese knotweed has spread there, which must urgently be stopped: “In the end it will overgrow everything.” A replanting of the wall will now be more species-rich, “then it is also safer and really fulfills the biotope character ”.