The planned fruit tree nursery in Tölz wants to preserve old varieties from the Alps

Created: 05/25/2022, 07:01

Looking forward to the Tölz fruit tree nursery project: Thomas Hölzl jun.

(left) and Mayor Ingo Mehner.

© Karl Bock

Bad Tölz - It's a win-win situation: not only the city and the Wackersberg entrepreneur Thomas Hölzl are winners, but also nature.

New life is to come to the former, dilapidated Schmidl nursery at the Tölz forest cemetery.

Instead of demolition, Thomas Hölzl Junior will create a fruit tree nursery there for old varieties from the foothills of the Alps.

The million-euro project was presented at the press conference last Thursday.

The striking building at Stadtwaldstraße 1 has been deserted for many years.

Located south of the forest cemetery, it includes several greenhouses, sheds and garages.

All this paints a bleak picture.

The city wanted to remove the eyesore - the current budget earmarked 300,000 euros for the demolition.

However, when the Wackersberg company Hölzl made the offer, the initial spark came - to build a Tölz fruit tree nursery there.

The 6,800 square meter outdoor area is now to be enlivened in a gardening sense.

Landscape builder Hölzl wants to renovate the ivy-covered house in order to create seminar and training rooms there and create a viewing garden.

This could make the project "a center for fruit tree horticulture in the Upper Bavarian Alps".

Hölzl recalls that 950 old apple and pear trees were recorded on behalf of the government of Upper Bavaria in recent years and forgotten varieties were discovered.

Some are even threatened with extinction, although they would have done well in our area.

Keeping forgotten strains alive

The Tölz fruit tree nursery that is to be founded would like to graft these trees with scions and keep forgotten varieties alive and make them accessible to the public.

Specifically, as soon as the notary contract with the town of Bad Tölz is signed, the building will begin to be secured and renovated, and the glass houses that can no longer be renovated will be demolished.

Planting of 600 fruit trees that have already been grafted is to begin in the western area in the near future.

Improvement courses, conferences on apples and meadow meadows and pruning of fruit trees are to be offered later.

Hölzl refers to the Bavarian Orchard Pact, according to which one million orchard trees are to be planted in Bavaria by 2035.

He now sees the optimal time to realize such a project

Mayor Ingo Mehner (CSU) sees it similarly.

He can imagine planting fruit trees in the city as well.

Licked lawns, which should not be walked on, are now a thing of the past in the city, natural green is in demand.

"But that doesn't mean that we won't cut down one or the other tree that doesn't withstand climate change," said the CSU politician.

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The buildings and areas, which cannot be used without problems due to the immediate vicinity of the cemetery, are sold to Hölzl, which in turn brings income for the city coffers.

The Finance Committee had recently approved this in a non-public meeting.

Hölzl attaches importance to the fact that his project does not in any way affect the adjacent cemetery garden center "Tölzer Blume", and the parking spaces along the street will also remain unchanged.