As of: February 1, 2024, 11:20 a.m
By: Ingrid Zeilinger
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The entire FFH area covers 252 hectares.
A fence protects it from unwanted visitors.
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The FFH area on the former air base site is, at 252 hectares, the largest nature reserve in the district.
And the majority are in very good to good condition.
A management plan should ensure that it stays that way.
Fürstenfeldbruck/Maisach – It is no secret that protected plants and animals have found a home on the site of the former airfield.
The curlew has been breeding on Fursty again for two years.
But for a long time not much was known about the condition of the meadows.
The management plan that the government had drawn up as part of the Europe-wide Natura 2000 project (see more below) provides information.
He was introduced to landowners and representatives of authorities and associations at the round table at the BMW Driving Academy.
The curlew has been nesting at the air base again for two years and even uses the runway.
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Rüdiger Urban and Astrid Harnak from the Avega planning office surveyed the area during one growing season.
The area - a forest before it was used as an airfield - lies on the gravel plain and includes flat, gravelly soils with little humus.
The planners classified 150 hectares as “lean lowland hay meadows”.
Ten percent are in very good condition, the rest in good condition.
“There isn’t a bad area, it’s extremely impressive,” says Urban.
Of the 20 hectares of lean limestone grassland, only three percent are bad.
“But only because they haven’t been mowed for a few years.”
It all grows
According to Urban, Fursty has the largest population of lowland hay meadows in the district and greater Munich area.
Among other things, downy oats and meadow cranesbill grow there, other areas have more herbs such as meadow sage, tall cinquefoil and shaggy rattlesnake.
The third type is fresher with humidity indicators like the large meadow button.
“As heterogeneous as the meadows are, the poor grassland is just as homogeneous,” says Urban.
The small meadowsweet can be found and around the edges there is thyme, which, among other things, the parasitic thyme sunroot needs to live.
Pearl grass, which actually occurs in limestone rocky areas, grows along the runways.
Speaking of the runway: That also has a use, explains Urban.
“The curlew lies on its side there and lets itself dry.” The proximity to the cars doesn’t bother the bird, its nests are four meters away from the asphalt.
One advantage: cars keep foxes away.
Improve mowing
Another 80 hectares of the FFH area with shelters and runways are not in a condition worthy of protection.
Urban explained that five to ten percent could be increased.
Among other things, an expansion area on the so-called tank training area.
But these are desirable additional goals.
“We have only formulated measures where it makes sense and where a habitat type can be achieved in one to two years.” This includes improving the mowing period.
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Simon Weigl from the State Association for Bird Protection suggested planning for more than five percent fallow land.
“The air base is also a valuable area for insects.” This needs to be better coordinated in order to maintain quality, replied Urban.
A good lean lawn could also be left standing.
Farmer Paul Maier from Esting reported that the area used to be overgrown with bushes.
Edge strips cannot be mowed with machines.
Josef Friedl from the Agriculture Office pointed out that the farmers here would only receive compensation for the loss of yield.
They should be paid better, Urban agreed.
A fence for protection
A fence protects the FFH area - as long as the area belongs to the Federal Real Estate Agency (Bima).
But what happens after the Bundeswehr withdraws?
When asked by Maisach's environmental officer Heike Demant, city planner Markus Reize explained that the city had no concrete plans.
A footpath to Maisach, which would cut through the area, is not feasible.
He does not assume that the FFH area can be entered.
“There is no protection without a fence,” said Maisach’s mayor Hans Seidl.
North of the southwest bypass, the FFH area is not fenced in and is accessed regularly.
“It is advertised online as a motorcycle route.”
The meadows in the FFH area are mostly in good to very good condition.
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Seidl wanted an overall view that looked at more than just the Bundeswehr area.
The round table was a way to bring government officials together.
Because they will work together to implement the measures in the management plan.
About Natura 2000
The European network Natura 2000 aims to counteract the extinction of species.
Because, as Laura Junk from the nature conservation department of the government of Upper Bavaria explained, FFH and bird sanctuaries also serve as ecosystem services - for example through pollination or as CO2 storage.
There are 745 Natura 2000 protected areas in Bavaria - one at the air base.
The management plan serves as the basis for nature conservation and conservation measures.
The measures listed are binding for the authorities, explained Junk.
However, the prohibition of deterioration applies to the owners.
In other words: the condition must be maintained.
The management plan now ensures this.
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You can find even more current news from the Fürstenfeldbruck district at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.