This week, 59 pupils from the Wörthsee elementary school planted 120 serviceberries in the “Am Ziegenstadel” compensation area in the Wörthsee municipality.
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- Two forest rangers from the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) explained to the children what to look out for when planting trees.
Then we got to work in small groups.
Each child was able to plant two small serviceberries under expert guidance.
On the area at the Ziegelstadel in Etterschlag near the Lindau Autobahn, a compensation area for construction measures by the municipality of Wörthsee has been under construction since last year on an area of around 1.1 hectares (we reported).
A site-appropriate beech forest with the accompanying tree species English oak, Norway maple, small-leaved lime, service tree and wild cherry is to be created on the compensation area of around 4760 square meters.
In addition, experts planted a forest cover with bird cherry, field maple and crab apple as well as hazelnut, black elderberry, red dogwood, privet and viburnum, as well as a so-called oak hat forest planted on a total of 5490 square meters.
About 6,600 square meters of the area are reserved as compensation areas for the food market on the street “Zum Kuckucksheim” and for building plots on Schulstrasse southwest of the elementary school.
"The municipality planted the remaining 4,500 square meters in advance as a potential compensation area, but above all as a climate sink," explained Mayor Christel Muggenthal.
“This improves our carbon footprint and increases our ecological account.
It is also important to say that the area will remain in the long term, it is stipulated that no one can cut down the trees.”
Landscape planner Christian Ufer (Terrabiota) carried out the planning on behalf of the municipality, and in spring 2022 a specialist company took over the planting.
"The rare domestic service berries were not available on the open market at that time," says Ufer.
In order to make the service tree more popular, the environmental officer of the municipality, Barbara König-Schmidbauer, together with the AELF and the environmental officer of the Wörthsee elementary school, Eva Dellinger, coordinated the planting of around 120 service berries from the service tree breeding program in the Five Lakes Region.
The aim of the project is to preserve the tree species in the region in the long term.
Since 2015 there has been a breeding program for the domestic service tree from the Five Lakes Region, in which the service tree is being researched and a concept for its conservation is being developed.
As part of this project, the fruits of service berries were harvested from the Fünfseenland and young trees were grown from the autochthonous seeds.
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