Legal mouth robbery: pick fruit for free

Created: 09/20/2022, 17:58

By: Victoria Strachwitz

"Picking is allowed": Inke Franzen, spokeswoman for the municipality of Neuried, is also enthusiastic about harvesting fruit from the trees on public land.

This is not only allowed, but desired by the communities.

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In the Würmtal there are fruit trees that anyone can help themselves to.

Plums, sloes, apples, pears and many other fruits want to be picked.

Würmtal

– Plum Datschi and apple pie: Now the time has come.

There are numerous fruit trees on public land, just waiting for someone to take the fruit from them.

One or the other Würmtaler already knows about it.

There are 15 apple trees opposite the Kraillinger building yard.

"They have already been completely harvested," says Thomas Blessing, head of the building yard.

In the Würmtal there are numerous fruit trees that you can pick yourself

In other places in the Würmtal, friends of legal mouth robbery should have better luck.

The municipality of Gockelberg has planted 17 fruit trees along Pasinger Straße in Gräfelfing.

"There are apples and pears attached, which the citizens can take," says Birgit Doll, spokeswoman for the community.

Last year, the municipality also laid out a "tree of the year avenue" along the Kirchweg.

There are apples, "you can eat them well," says the manager of the depot, Christian Geier.

There are three apple trees across from St. Stefan and one apple tree on Finkenstrasse.

Geier knows what their apples taste like.

But he has not yet seen other people picking there.

There are also cherry trees at the old town hall and the playground in the Heitmeier settlement, but they are not in season right now.

Christian Geier and his employees are recently certified fruit tree caretakers.

For three years they have been taking care of the fruit trees.

"They haven't worn much in the last few years," he says.

That's about to change.

Apples, pears, Mirabelles & Co. can be picked free of charge from the Würmtal trees

Also in Planegg there is now one or the other fruit cake for free.

There is an apple tree in the meadow behind the recycling island on Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse.

There are several on Einsteinstrasse in Martinsried between the elementary school and the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus.

This notice can be found on a website called www.mundraub.org.

However, the whistleblower points out: "The locals know these trees and like to pick the apples much too early." On the other side of the elementary school there are several Mirabelle plum trees.

There are rosehips in the Parc-de-Meylan;

Plums on Angerbauerstraße between Martinsried and the LMU Faculty of Biology.

"And in the Tandler Gorge there are also fruit trees that you can help yourself to," says community spokeswoman Kiki Xander.

Whether on the Ratschplatz in Neuried or on the Gockerlberg in Graefelfing - there is plenty of fruit in the Würmtal

In autumn, more and more people with small baskets pass through Neuried.

Inke Franzen, spokeswoman for the community, is one of them.

Sloes and apple trees are near the playground on Hofmannstrasse/Ettaler Strasse, she knows.

There are plum and apple trees on Haderner Weg on the old sledge hill, there is a hazelnut bush on the playground on Münchner Strasse, and there is an apple tree on Ratschplatz.

There are fruits to be discovered in the landscape protection area between the Zugspitzstrasse and the forest.

There are plenty of hazelnuts.

"It can be picked," asks Franzen.

"The stuff doesn't have to go to waste." You can take anything that's on public property - at least as much as it doesn't exceed your own needs.

The mundraub.org site, on which anyone can enter and find fruit trees, should be used with caution.