As of: February 29, 2024, 8:00 a.m
By: Elke Robert
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In the Rösenau, areas of a large area were removed - a preventative action to secure roads and hiking trails.
© Hans-Helmut Herold
Numerous trees are currently being felled in Schongau.
The “radical clear-cutting” is causing horror among some citizens.
Schongau - Schongau citizens are horrified by the radical deforestation in Rösenau.
In the last few days, workers have been removing massive ash trees from the forest opposite the Schongau sewage treatment plant on Rösenaustraße am Lech.
“In view of the size and area, this is a significant intervention in nature,” says Marianne Lorenz to the Schongauer Nachrichten.
She has often observed foxes and deer there.
This forest area, which has now been destroyed forever by rigorous clear-cutting, was also a shelter for wild cats.
“I wonder how, in times when climate and nature protection, the preservation of ecological systems and sustainability are talked and written about everywhere, such an insensitive and destructive intervention on this scale can be carried out,” said the SN reader.
It was not just so-called “productive forest” in the form of spruces that was cut down, but also deciduous trees that had grown over many years.
Lorenz: “Where is nature conservation here?” As a human being, we first have to digest the shock of the destruction, not to mention what this means for the animal world and nature.
Trees unstable due to ash shoot dieback
The area in Rösenau is private property.
“Ash trees were mainly felled there,” says Lisa Haugeneder, forester for the city of Schongau.
As on the Lechberg above the Volksfestplatz, the background is traffic safety, not because wood should be recycled there.
“As the ash shoots die, the trees become unstable,” says the forester.
The roots would rot.
Even if you don't notice it from the outside of one or two trees, the tree is already damaged from the inside.
This winter in particular, many trees fell due to the snow pressure.
Experts from the Schongau Forest Owners Association work in Rösenau.
According to Jürgen von der Goltz, some of the ash trees only need a small breeze before they will fall.
Since hiking trails also run there, it's all about traffic safety - "before something happens."
Tree felling on the Schongau Lechberg
At the Schongauer Lechberg, employees of the municipal forestry office are at work with their own forest workers.
The inventory is handled very sensitively there, says Haugeneder.
It is felled with the cable pull system.
The trees in question are suspended high up using a strong rope and, after setting a falling wedge, are specifically brought down in a place where no regeneration will be damaged, as the forester describes it.
“The trees also have to be hung for occupational safety reasons, because felling is very dangerous; dead branches could hit the forest workers.”
Additional ash trees were also removed from Lechberg.
Bernd Pietrushka shows how broken the trunks are.
You often can't tell from the outside of the trees.
© Hans-Helmut Herold
If you see the meter-high stacks of tree trunks that have been prepared for removal, you can certainly understand the citizens' accusation of clear-cutting: in the Rösenau there are around 150 to 200 cubic meters, according to the forester.
For the Lechberg it is slightly less, between 60 and 100 cubic meters.
Since the trees are very powerful, a large amount of wood can be accumulated quickly, Haugeneder calculates.
For ten to 15 trees you have to expect 70 to 130 stere including the branch cutting.
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