As of: March 11, 2024, 7:56 a.m
By: Dieter Roettig
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After the beehives and nesting boxes, beekeepers Franz Robeller, Christine Reichert (l.) and Christl Bernhard (small photo) led the visitors to the dolphin fountain.
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Dießen - During the heyday of the park named after him, the royal treasurer Ludwig Freiherr von Schacky enjoyed the colorful peacocks, turkeys and turtle doves, a pheasantry and a pond with ducks as well as a fish farm on Schönfeld.
Today, completely normal animals populate the green jewel on Ammersee.
The support association has started this year's series of moderated tours specifically on this topic.
Since some visitors were in Schacky Park for the first time, they were introduced to the eventful history of the park by chairwoman Christine Reichert and her deputy Christl Bernhard:
After Baron von Schacky's death in 1913, Dr.
Georg Heim, member of the Bavarian State Parliament and the Berlin Reichstag and President of the State Chamber of Farmers.
He established a bull breeding facility here and the once noble park was only used as an “agricultural area”.
In 1933, under pressure from the Nazis, Heim had to sell the site to the Sisters of Mercy, who continued to operate it as a cow pasture.
In 2003, the sisters leased the nine-hectare eastern half to the market town of Dießen.
Since the end of 2005, the non-profit association “Förderkreis Schacky-Park”, which was founded specifically for this purpose, has been taking care of the monument-appropriate restoration, preservation and care of the park with its monuments, sculptures as well as the flora and fauna of the park on a voluntary and exemplary basis.
Tour through Dießen's Schacky Park: Christl Bernhard takes care of a wide variety of birds
For example, “bird godmother” Christl Bernhard takes care of the over twenty different species of birds that have been identified in the park.
Together with experts from the Biodiversity Project, 31 nesting boxes have so far been professionally installed.
Such as “half caves” for redstarts, wagtails, wrens, spotted flycatchers and for the tawny owl with marten protection.
There were also tit boxes with entrance holes of different sizes for different species of tits.
By the way, the boxes are occasionally hijacked by dormouse, as Christl Bernhard told us.
To finance the nesting boxes, the support group offers sponsorships with a one-off payment of 60 euros for the purchase and 15 euros annually for care and monitoring.
At night Schacky Park comes alive with deer, foxes, badgers and bats.
And early in the morning, according to Christl Bernhard, you can occasionally see storks in the tall trees.
They seem to be checking out whether it’s worth flying here to “grab the loot”.
After all, in addition to mice and crickets, there are lots of frogs and toads in the pond below the Monopteros and at the duck pond.
Warm each other
A highlight of the two-hour tour was the lecture in front of the seven beehives by the Raistinger beekeeper Franz Robeller, who stepped in at short notice for the sick Schacky beekeeper Nahsan Alpler.
The proceeds from the sale of the honey she produces exclusively benefit the Schacky-Park support group and a charity organization for Africa.
Visitors to the tour were particularly interested in how bees overwinter here: As soon as winter and with it frost comes, the bees gather in a winter cluster and warm each other.
The queen sits well protected and “comfortably warm” in the middle.