As of: February 29, 2024, 5:33 p.m
By: Wolfgang Schörner
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On Monday, the city surrounded the three lime trees on Bahnhofstrasse near the main intersection with barriers.
Permission for felling followed on Thursday.
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On Thursday, the district office granted the city of Penzberg special permission to fell the listed lime trees.
There is great disappointment at the monument association.
Penzberg - The district office has allowed the city of Penzberg to fell the two listed lime trees at the intersection of Bahnhofstrasse and Karlstrasse.
On Thursday, the authority granted an exceptional permit under the Monument Protection Act.
District office spokesman Dominik Detert announced this yesterday.
According to him, the notice was sent on Thursday.
As justification, he explained that the reports on the trees had been examined.
They showed that felling made sense.
Felling should take place on Thursday evening
On Thursday morning it was still unclear when the linden trees would be felled.
When asked, the city said that a formal legal question had to be clarified first so as not to make any legal mistakes.
Shortly afterwards the time had come.
Around midday she announced the felling of the two listed linden trees and another linden tree for this Thursday.
It should be done in the evening.
When the local newspaper asked whether the request to completely close Bahnhofstrasse and Karlstrasse was a means of exerting pressure on the authorities, Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) answered no.
It was the consequence of the traffic safety obligation.
According to him, the district office has already given a verbal promise to block the area if the trees are not allowed to be felled.
Application for road closure therefore obsolete
As reported, the State Office for Monument Preservation vetoed the felling of two of the three lime trees on Friday.
The authorities certified that the two trees had monument status - they were the crime scenes of the Penzberg murder night - and pointed out to the city that it had to apply for an exemption.
What the city did on Monday.
At the same time, the city applied to the district office on Wednesday to close Bahnhofstrasse and Karlstrasse due to the risk of breakage.
But what is now obsolete, as Korpan said.
Yesterday, District Office spokesman Detert explained in response to the city's accusation that there had been no written response from the District Office until Tuesday and that it was only on Wednesday that they received the order from the State Office for Monument Preservation to decide on the application.
Disappointment at the Penzberg Monument Association
There was disappointment on Thursday at the Penzberg Monument Association, which had tried to save the two historic linden trees.
“I can only shake my head,” said chairman Max Kapfer.
He accused the city of its memory of the victims of the night of the murder “cannot be surpassed in hypocrisy.”