Action day in the Dietramszell sawmill attracts hundreds of visitors

Created: 05/21/2022, 16:51

By: Ewald Scheitterer

Those interested could observe the path of a freshly cut tree through a sawmill in Dietramszell.

© Ewald Scheitterer

Dietramszell – How is a wooden house made from a tree?

A few hundred visitors recently looked into this aspect at the Suttner sawmill in the Dietramszell district of Untermühlthal.

In close cooperation with the Bavarian state forests, the sawmill and the regional craft guilds of carpenters and joiners, you could follow the path of a freshly cut tree through the entire sawmill until its wood was finally installed in the wall of a wooden house.

District forester Norbert Nörr from the Office for Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (AELF) made it clear that climate protection and the felling of a tree do not have to be a contradiction in terms.

On the one hand, the tree stored a lot of CO² during its life, which now remains bound there.

On the other hand, the felling of old large trees also serves the natural renewal of the forest.

This would give the growing trees more space and, above all, more light.

Sawmill owner Hans Benno Suttner then took the visitors through the extensive grounds.

First the tree was debarked before it was cut into lumber in the actual saw.

Then the freshly cut beams and boards went into a drying plant.

At another station, the carpenters from the Bscheider carpentry shop in Dietramszell demonstrated how finished, insulated wooden walls are made for a future wooden house.

For the carpenters' guild, too, wood is the main material that is processed here, even if the carpenter prefers less spruce and fir and more hardwood for his work.

The day of action in the Suttner sawmill was one of the numerous "Climate Spring Oberland" events currently taking place in the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Miesbach, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Weilheim-Schongau.

Despite the rainy weather, the campaign attracted several hundred visitors to the Suttner sawmill under the motto "Cut down and build trees for climate protection - local wood as a climate saver".

A number with which the four organizers could live quite well.

"That's a lot more this year than we had in previous years for our climate spring campaign," confirmed Josef Oswald, the foreman of the regional carpenters' guild.