Four-year success story
Created: 05/26/2022, 16:09
By: Hanna von Prittwitz
The Bund Naturschutz also takes care of flowering areas.
© Frank Rumpenhorst
It all started in the Hechendorfer S-Bahn station, in the S-Bahn station the Seefeld group of the Bund Naturschutz (BN) looked back on four years of intensive work.
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- One of the major goals of the BN local group has always been environmental education.
Against this background, the chair Constanze Gentz, her deputy Ildiko Gaal-Baier, Dr.
Linda Rüger and Albert Augustin have gotten a lot going with many volunteer helpers over the past four years.
In autumn 2018, shortly after it was founded, a Plant-for-the-Planet Academy took place in Seefeld with 47 children who planted almost 50 trees.
The avenue of oaks was always a big topic, “Eichenzeit” established itself as a popular offer for elementary school students, a lecture on the avenue, again in the then just opened restaurant in the station, made for a full house.
There were also lectures and offers for families, and the conservationists even went out at night, for example to guide moths.
Lapwings, flowering areas and area protection
With the Kiebitz project in the Aubachtal, the Seefeld local group made headlines beyond the town.
13 adult birds and 20 fledgling young birds were meanwhile on the field.
However, it cost and still costs a lot of nerves for authorities, farmers and BN.
The Lower Nature Conservation Authority is currently taking care of the project, supported by the Starnberg Ornithologists (ASO) working group in the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV).
Constanze Genz did not comment further on the details.
Tending of flowering areas in the Aubach valley, reactivation of the Ottweiher near Drößling, mapping, supervision of the beavers on the Aubach, tending of the pump meadow – the nature conservationists are out and about around Seefeld with other volunteers.
Together with the AWA Ammersee, they initiated the wild bee hotel and a sandarium in the Aubachtal - with success, because "there is a lot of air traffic there," says Gentz.
The BN Group was also politically involved in land protection.
Linda Rüger recalled the resistance to a possible building of a clinic on Lindenallee.
And because “in Bavaria, 11.6 hectares of landscape are still being converted into settlement areas every day”.
For this reason, too, the BN Group keeps an eye on the compensation areas in the community.
A children's group is also planned.
“Until now, young people have looked after us, but they have now completed their Abitur.
That's why we're doing it," said Augustin.
The group is already full with 30 small participants.
Ecological jewels
"Seefeld, the name says it all": With these words, Ildiko Gaal-Baier, Deputy Chairwoman of the Bund Naturschutz in Seefeld, then introduced a lecture on water protection.
Markus Brandtner from the Water Management Office in Weilheim introduced himself as the "water edge strip coordinator" and had to laugh about it himself.
His lecture was as entertaining as it was powerful in content.
Key sentence: It's complicated.
Riparian strips have important functions and potential in nature conservation and ecology.
They protect against run-off during floods, buffer against the entry of substances and are important for shading.
They also enhance the landscape, offer species-rich retreats and reduce the effort involved in water body maintenance.
With the referendum for more biodiversity in 2019, the Bavarian Nature Conservation Act changed to the extent that "along natural or near-natural areas of standing or flowing water, with the exception of artificial bodies of water ... and irrigation and drainage ditches, ... in a width of at least five meters from the shoreline" the garden - or agricultural use is prohibited.
"Insane Explosives"
However, whether a body of water is natural or not is not so easy to find out.
"That offers crazy explosives," said Brandtner.
"We have 300, 400 years of river engineering behind us, no body of water looks the same as it used to."
"He'll be compensated for that.
However, the compensation does not correspond to what could be generated on the area.” Every meter offers a conflict of use.
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In the districts of Starnberg, Weilheim and Landsberg, the office examined the waters.
Using an example from Seefeld, Brandtner explained how time-consuming the research alone is.
He showed maps of a stream near Gut Delling from the past 100 years.
A closer look revealed that part of the stream had been diverted for an old mill.
So not a candidate for a shoulder strip?
Artificially created bodies of water can certainly offer potential for valuable ecological development.
Then they are considered an "ecological jewel" - and need an edge strip.
“These are all individual case decisions,” stated Brandtner.