Checking, tending, felling, replanting: Poing and its 4000 trees

Created: 05/09/2022, 19:20

By: Armin Roesl

View of the Bergfeldpark in Poing-Nord.

© Johannes Dziemballa

Bauhof employee Ulrich Huber has now explained how the municipality of Poing deals with its 4000 trees.

Where maintained, where cleared, where replanting or replacement plants have to be planted.

Poing - About 4000 trees are on public areas in the municipality of Poing.

They are all recorded in a register that Ulrich Huber, the building yard worker responsible for caring for the trees, recently presented and explained at a meeting of the building and environmental committee of the municipal council.

The condition of each individual tree is stored in the cadastre, as well as whether and which care measures are necessary.

View of the Reuterpark in Poing-Süd.

© Johannes Dziemballa

Huber explained that the trees are inspected every one and a half to three years by trained tree inspectors.

Among other things, stability, vitality, deadwood, wounds and pest infestation are checked.

"After assessing the stability and the risk potential, measures such as crown care, crown shortening or securing, free cutting, wild drive elimination, deadwood removal or felling are determined."

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)

If individual trees are felled on roads or in green areas such as Reuterpark and Bergfeldpark for necessary reasons, they are usually replanted within a year, reports Ulrich Huber.

For certain reasons, such as construction work, the replanting had to be carried out at a different location.

Blumenstraße in Poing-Nord.

© Johannes Dziemballa

One example is the new construction of the pedestrian and bicycle underpass at the S-Bahn station.

67 trees have been felled there and eight have been replanted so far.

By resolution of the municipal council, 25 replacement plantings are planned at Bergfeldsee in 2023.

Poing: Fellings on Gruber Strasse

Further fellings in the past five years: 36 trees had to give way for the construction of the new teaching pool and a cafeteria south of the Anni Pickert school.

A replacement planting has not yet taken place.

90 trees were felled as roadside greenery and 85 new ones were planted.

According to Huber, the reasons for this clearing are the erection of traffic signs, the creation of sight triangles, the laying of lines or simply: no more space.

An embankment had to be cleared on Gruber Strasse for the construction of the new school swimming pool.

© Johannes Dziemballa

In the last five years, 16 trees have been felled in the Reuterpark for safety/damage reasons and three have been replanted, in the Bergfeldpark 18 and 22 have been planted as replacements.

Radical pruning sometimes required

In his report, Ulrich Huber also explained the care measures in the Bergfeld Park - where it sometimes looks like a clear cut: "This is a necessary measure, since shrubs on the edge also need to be set on sticks, as they sprout on the stick and that is the only correct care cut to rejuvenate the shrub and promote natural growth.” Shrubs in the lower layer would otherwise wither or die due to lack of light.

"By opening the upper roof, by putting tall marginal shrubs on stilts or by removing the trees that are not promising, natural regeneration is also promoted and the inner surface of the lower layer can grow back or regenerate itself."

Sometimes a radical pruning of shrubs is also necessary to ensure traffic safety on paths in the park and to prevent flowering and lawn areas from becoming overgrown.

Furthermore, according to Huber, trees along the paths would also have to be pruned, i.e. branches are removed up to a certain height.

This also serves to improve crown development.

Mayors and parliamentary groups praise Bauhof

At the end of his report, which Ulrich Huber showed at the meeting as a Power Point presentation, he explained on behalf of the construction depot and the municipal administration: "Due to the many inquiries, we would like to clarify that the Bergfeldpark is not a nature conservation area, but a green space between built-up areas that are available to the population for recreation, games, observation, sport and also as a network of paths.” Therefore, the statutory obligation to ensure traffic safety for the protection of the population and compliance with it has priority.

Nevertheless, nature is "very close to the heart" of the building yard, emphasized Huber.

"That's why we try to protect them as best we can." However, the implementation of all concerns is very difficult and "unfortunately, not everyone can always be completely satisfied".

After Huber's remarks, Mayor Thomas Stark and spokesman for all municipal council factions praised the work of the building yard and assured them that they had complete trust in the professional knowledge and work of the employees.

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