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"That's a mess": Special copper beech mutilated despite conditions - now it has to be felled

2022-01-25T15:17:09.116Z


"That's a mess": Special copper beech mutilated despite conditions - now it has to be felled Created: 01/25/2022, 16:00 By: Elke Robert In order to be able to work, thick branches of the beech were cut back directly on the trunk. © Hans-Helmut Herold The city is pissed off: the copper beech on the grounds of the New Apostolic Church was apparently pruned in such a bungling manner that it had t


"That's a mess": Special copper beech mutilated despite conditions - now it has to be felled

Created: 01/25/2022, 16:00

By: Elke Robert

In order to be able to work, thick branches of the beech were cut back directly on the trunk.

© Hans-Helmut Herold

The city is pissed off: the copper beech on the grounds of the New Apostolic Church was apparently pruned in such a bungling manner that it had to be felled.

Schongau - "It's a mess what happened there." City forester Klaus Thien does not hold back with his opinion. During the establishment of the large construction site for four apartment buildings, the copper beech tree, which is worthy of protection, was damaged on the area that the city had also sold to the building contractor for his project. The wounds on the trunk are 30 to 40 centimeters in size. "This is a death on installments," said Thien. The beech will not die immediately, but in the medium term the tree will no longer be stable and will have to be felled.

The city forester thus confirms the assessment of Schongau's environmental officer Bettina Buresch, who therefore recently spoke at the city council meeting.

Large branches were cut off directly at the trunk.

"Water can get into the unprotected areas, and fungi and bacteria grow."

"And once again nothing is left on the land," criticizes Buresch, who had fought for a long time to preserve a rare blue cedar on the same area.

There will be a replanting.

“But penalties should be much higher,” she demands.

"Profits are apparently so high that something like this is paid for out of petty cash."

Stadtbaumeister sees contractors as having a duty

The city administration was also "extremely annoyed", confirmed city master builder Sebastian Dietrich.

He sees the building contractor as having a duty.

"We will sanction it, it's an administrative offence, and a contractual penalty will also be due." One is even considering how to put a stop to it so that something like this doesn't even happen in the future - higher sanctions, for example, or not to sell land in the first place.

"We will pull out all the stops," promised Mayor Falk Sluyterman, who suspected that the follow-up costs may have "already been priced into the project".

Preparation of the building pit on the site of the former New Apostolic Church in Schongau.

© Hans-Helmut Herold

Weilheim contractor Hubert Rott is certain that he did everything possible to protect the tree.

"In order not to damage the roots, I can't bank the basement, but have to create a vertical pit," he explains when asked by SN.

In turn, the drill that drives the steel girders into the ground has very sensitive sensors.

So that the hydraulic lines do not get caught on the tree, the branches that were in the way were shortened.

A forester advised to cut back the branches as much as possible.

Builders say they did everything they could to save the tree

"The installation to protect the roots costs me 10,000 euros, so I didn't even discuss it," says Rott, annoyed by the criticism. He also deposited a guarantee of 5,000 euros. Ultimately, however, his hands are tied. The construction window is given, he can't move the building any further, he needs his work area for the formwork on the basement. "The city can't pull a rope out of this now," says Rott. "Then we should have said we're reducing the size of the building."

According to Bettina Buresch, such negative examples are exactly the reason why better protection of construction sites is necessary.

One is in the process of developing a template for a tree protection ordinance.

In combination with a green design plan, the city would then have more options.

The corresponding application was to be discussed in November, but Buresch then withdrew it due to the abundance of topics at the two-day meeting marathon.

Source: merkur

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