As of: March 5, 2024, 6:55 p.m
By: Verena Möckl
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Demanding a solution to the crows problem, not just in Dachau East: resident Silvia Kalina, CSU state parliament members Bernhard Seidenath and Alexander Flierl, businessman Marco Reichlmayr, who is plagued by crows, CSU city councilor Tobias Stephan and residents Florian Helm and Thekla Alsch (from left).
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There has been a crow emergency in Dachau for years.
While the city has now capitulated, there is new hope from the state parliament.
Dachau is to become part of a pilot project that aims to achieve an exception under species protection law.
The birds could soon be in trouble.
Dachau – The crows have never been as bad as they are at the moment, say Thekla Alsch and Florian Helm.
The two people from Dachau have been suffering for years from the increasing number of rooks in the city.
Alsch has to take her car to the car wash every day.
“This is really brutal.
The droppings are so aggressive that the car wash can no longer wash them.” The birds also drive Florian Helm to the brink of despair.
“Animal protection or not.
I have to clean my facade three times a day because they make such a mess.”
The city did everything it could to deal with the crow problem.
Every year, city employees remove crow's nests from treetops in the city.
Every year the city tries to minimize the number of crows with such measures.
Every year without any notable success.
The rooks like it so much in Dachau that their numbers have continued to increase in recent years.
The crows have made themselves comfortable especially in the trees on Schleißheimerstrasse, on Pollnstrasse at the corner of Liegnitzerstrasse, at the train station, at Berliner Strasse at the corner of Theodor-Heuss-Strasse and at Ernst-Reuer-Platz.
On the initiative of the Dachau CSU, Alexander Flierl, chairman of the state parliament's committee for environmental and consumer protection, personally visited some hot spots in Dachau yesterday, Tuesday, to get an idea.
At Ernst-Reuter-Platz, CSU city councilor Tobias Stephan and state parliament member Bernhard Seidenath presented Alexander Flierl with around 1,000 signatures that they had collected from desperate urban and rural residents in the Dachau district.
While conservationists may be happy that the population of the once-threatened birds has recovered, city dwellers are at their wits' end.
As reported, crows also cause great damage to farmers in the Dachau hinterland.
The city has now given up in the fight against the clever and inventive animals.
The rooks are under strict protection under EU law.
Only in exceptional cases may the animals be “removed”, i.e. killed.
But there is a ray of hope.
“It is clear in Munich that this is a hot spot here in Dachau,” said Seidenath.
Now action should be taken.
As Alexander Flierl announced, state politics wanted to address the problem.
“Umbrellas and pavilions are cynical and don’t help,” he emphasized, alluding to a proposal from the government of Upper Bavaria that was made to the city of Dachau in November last year (we reported).
Rather, Dachau should be included in a pilot project that aims to get to the crows.
In view of the large crow population and the “serious impairments”, maintaining the protection status of crows is no longer justified, said Flierl.
In the project, an initiative of the Free Voters, the “removal” of crows is now to be scientifically examined within the framework of exemptions under species protection law.
Flierl explains which measures of “lethal deterrence”, i.e. killing, are effective and how they could be optimized.
In the Dachau district, the news may soon be over.
A reason for the troubled residents to breathe a sigh of relief.
New hope is emerging for Thekla Alsch.
“We have to try everything.
She is certain that “it can’t get any worse anyway.”