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Announced fellings on the Harzberg: the city of Miesbach confirms the need

2022-12-03T14:26:16.095Z


Announced fellings on the Harzberg: the city of Miesbach confirms the need Created: 03/12/2022 15:14 By: Fridolin Thanner During the on-site visit at the Harzberg, Gerhard Braunmiller (2nd from left), Michael Lechner (right), Stefan Kramer and Anton Linsinger informed the residents about the felling measure. © Fridolin Thanner Miesbach – For safety reasons, 19 trees on the Harzberg have to be


Announced fellings on the Harzberg: the city of Miesbach confirms the need

Created: 03/12/2022 15:14

By: Fridolin Thanner

During the on-site visit at the Harzberg, Gerhard Braunmiller (2nd from left), Michael Lechner (right), Stefan Kramer and Anton Linsinger informed the residents about the felling measure.

© Fridolin Thanner

Miesbach – For safety reasons, 19 trees on the Harzberg have to be removed, and the Miesbach city council decided at its most recent meeting to cut them down.

Sunburn, fungal attack and thus reduced stability.

For safety reasons, trees on the Harzberg have to be removed, and the Miesbach city council decided in its most recent meeting to fell 19 in the hall forest.

Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller then agreed to inform local residents about the measure.

The meeting took place on Thursday morning.

The residents were not very enthusiastic about the decision, they would have liked more information in advance and a less drastic approach.

Voices had also been raised in the city council to better involve the citizens.

Markus Seemüller had asked for the decision to be postponed.

Three Green Councilors also refused their approval.

But time is of the essence, as became clear again on Thursday – and that the intervention is necessary.

"It's not fun for me to defend that either," said plant consultant Michael Lechner (FWG), for whom the felling action is "compulsory".

And it is carried out with great effort: with a truck-mounted crane and tree climbers in order to work as gently as possible.

"That's the supreme discipline," Lechner emphasized in view of the cramped space and the mighty trees.

The felled wood is then placed on the water reservoir, examined for traces of the Asian longhorned beetle and chopped next door to be used as wood chips in Miesbach.

Risk of fungus and wind damage

Arborist Anton Linsinger made it clear why the felling was necessary.

The bottom beeches are rotting due to the fungal infestation, "It's already starting in the row behind it," said Linsinger.

Some trees above have to be removed so that the lower ones can be reached with the crane.

For this purpose, two trees in the area where the vehicle is set up are not felled, but only shortened.

Some trees, in turn, are at risk of windbreak due to the felling below and they have to go because they could fall on buildings.


If the city council had decided in March to protect the exposed trees with nets or paint after they were felled to combat ALB, they might still be healthy.

But that's over, now they have to go.

"We don't need to discuss that," said Stefan Kramer from the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry.

Beech trees are the ones that rot the fastest, explained the head of the forestry department, "they can fall over at any time".

Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller recalled the obligation to ensure traffic safety.

"I'm responsible for that," he said.

Kramer also sees himself as a forest manager in the city forest and said: "We are in criminal law."


The dilemma began with the tearing up of a grown stock, Lechner explained, as he did in the city council.

"The basic problem is that the entire forest was not cleared during the ALB campaign," Linsinger agrees.

"The pain would have been great once," he said, but then young forest could have grown back.

Now it's about trying to get as many trees as possible.

The younger stock on the side should be protected from sunburn with camouflage nets.

The interest group Fritz Freund Park (IG) collected donations of around 20,000 euros for this.


Master forester and arborist Tobias Duerdoth, who assessed the Hallenwald for the residents, pleaded for less intervention, individual trees could be shortened instead of being felled.

"The trees fulfill an incredible number of functions," among other things they protect others, Duerdoth made clear.

"But we can't start again next year," Lechner countered if the shortening wasn't enough.

Effort and costs are too high.

Especially in the case of a large beech tree at the edge of the felling area, "I don't take responsibility," said Kramer.

"The tree will not stand another five years," he is convinced.

"I'm not going to do that either," Braunmiller agreed.

"It would be cheapest and safest to make a clean sweep," Kramer said, trying to convey the city's efforts.


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The meeting did not change anything about the procedure – the work is supposed to start next week.

At Duerdoth, the refusal to leave dead wood in the form of two to three meter high trunks and lying wood on the slope caused a lack of understanding, as it was ecologically sensible and unproblematic.

"We take note of the fact that the fellings are being carried out as decided," said resident Karin Bracher.

The IG now hopes that the work will be done gently and that the park will be treated with care.

The donors still want to talk about whether the IG will make the donations they have collected available.

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Source: merkur

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