"Good news for the planet": Why the TV station Arte is interested in flowering meadows in Bad Tölz
Created: 06/30/2022, 1:00 p.m
By: Melina Staar
A flower splendor - like here at the Tölzer Friedhof - is supposed to attract insects.
There are areas like this all over the city.
© Arndt Pröhl
Initially, the project was viewed with some suspicion.
In the meantime, however, the insect-friendly flowering islands in Bad Tölz are attracting a lot of interest - also from science and the media.
Bad Tölz
- It's impossible to miss: In Bad Tölz everything is blooming.
Numerous flowering meadows were created under the motto "Bad Tölz - beautiful wild".
As regularly reported, insect-friendly areas have been created since 2016.
It is currently blooming wonderfully in front of the bouldering hall or the south school.
"A chain stretches from the district office on the Flinthöhe to the bathing part, with a flowering area every 500 meters at most," explains city hall spokeswoman Birte Otterbach.
The goal: to anchor the areas better in the population's awareness and make them visible.
A new flowering meadow is to be created at the old hospital in Bad Tölz
There are more than 100 areas of different sizes that make Bad Tölz a paradise for bees and other insects.
Apart from the bouldering hall, things are blooming at the cemetery or in the spa gardens.
Another area was created there, in addition to a sunny one there is now a flowering meadow in the shade.
In the central places it looks nice and at the same time is ecologically good, says Otterbach.
In the past few days, the floor of a meadow has been replaced at the old hospital.
A large flowering meadow is to be created on one area.
Perennials will grow on the second.
"The flowering meadows have a different appearance every year because the seeds spread themselves." What initially looked gray and gravelly in the first year developed into a wonderful meadow after two or three years at the latest. The vegetation grew denser and the meadow renewed basically itself. Only seeds from native plants are sown.
Filming for Arte about flowering meadows in Bad Tölz
The landscape gardener Franziska Bauer, who oversees the project as a specialist, receives support from the ReAL network for maintenance.
For example, the employees pull out weeds that would crowd out other species and loosen up the areas.
Meanwhile, there is also a lot of positive feedback and praise from citizens.
While some were still skeptical at first, they are now hearing more and more about how beautiful the surfaces are to look at.
It is important to keep people informed about what is happening with the signs.
"This is how passers-by can see that this is intentional."
A film team from a Cologne production company was even interested in the flowering meadows these days.
A cameraman, a sound engineer and an editor spent two days recording an eight-minute report that is to be broadcast on Arte as part of a longer programme.
The working title of the production: "Good news for the planet".
"The company approached us and wanted to report on the flowering meadows," says Otterbach.
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The sheep at Kalvarienberg, which also belong to the project, and many other places in Bad Tölz were also recorded.
A school class was also there, taking over the so-called monitoring of the flowering areas, i.e. checking how they are developing.
A professor from the Technical University of Munich also got in touch.
A scientific work on the flowering areas is to be created.
"There's really a lot of interest in it," says Otterbach.
The article on Arte will be broadcast in the coming year, but an exact broadcast date has not yet been set.
You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.
