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Until recently, trees lined the parking lot, but now they have been felled.
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All the trees that lined the “Kaufland” parking lot and its driveway in Peißenberg were felled.
After the snow and storm it became clear how rotten the willows and alders were.
Peißenberg – “You get a lot of horror.” The woman from Weilheim is still stunned.
The day before, she was shopping in Peißenberg and was horrified to see that the trees that lined the “Kaufland” parking lot and its driveway from Zur Alten Bergehalde street had all been felled.
“Everything was full of trees and now it looks completely bare,” says the woman.
The trees wouldn't have bothered anyone there.
The “Kaufland” supermarket is located between Schongauer Straße and Zur Alten Bergehalde street in Peißenberg.
Customers can drive or walk to the supermarket from either street.
Parking spaces were arranged in a U-shape around the supermarket building.
The trees in question were around 150 meters along the southern edge of the parking lot on the adjacent meadow.
They were felled last week.
All trees in the supermarket parking lot in Peißenberg felled – “It looks completely bare”
In a way, the heavy snow and the violent storm at the beginning of winter were their downfall.
The snow load pushed the branches far down.
When the storm came, huge branches fell into the parking lot.
According to the owner, it became clear how rotten the trees on the edge of the parking lot were.
The supermarket also urged that the situation must be restored in which customers could park and shop without being harmed.
The liability insurance said it would not cover any damage.
It was with a heavy heart that he made the decision to have the trees felled.
This decision was made solely for safety reasons.
The willows and alders that stood there were not planted; they grew on the edge of the meadow without human intervention.
These tree species have shallow roots and are therefore particularly at risk of falling over during extreme weather events.
According to the Federal Nature Conservation Act, it is forbidden to fell trees outside the forest after March 1st until September 30th, so the owner had to act quickly.
When property owners cut down trees, it is purely a private matter
“We understand the anger,” says Andreas Fischer, the head of the public order office in the Peißenberg town hall.
Unfortunately, the market town cannot prevent trees from being felled as long as they are on private property - and there is no tree protection ordinance.
“And we don’t have any tree protection regulations in Peißenberg,” says Fischer.
That is why it is purely a private matter when property owners have trees that are on their property cut down - even if they are trees that characterize the townscape.
As head of the public order office, he is not an expert in this field, but according to his memory there have already been considerations about drawing up a tree protection ordinance for Peißenberg.
However, this is not an issue at the moment.
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In his opinion, such a regulation has advantages and disadvantages.
On the one hand, it protects trees from being felled for no reason, but on the other hand, it makes it difficult for the municipality to act if, for example, a tree gets in the way of a construction project.
If there is a tree protection regulation, then compliance with it would have to be monitored and violations of it punished, says Fischer: “We would then have to impose fines, for example.” That would mean a lot of effort for the market town.
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