As of: March 13, 2024, 12:00 p.m
By: Wolfgang Schörner
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The city has put up an information board about the “hut landscape” and “German Angus” cattle.
© Wolfgang Schörner
At Gut Hub near Penzberg, the fence is currently being built for the “German Angus” cattle, which will in future graze on the large meadow between the Vordermeier building and the Hub Chapel.
An information board has also recently been installed.
Peter Demmel estimates that the first cattle will probably be put out to pasture at the end of April.
Penzberg – Grazing with cattle is part of the development concept with which the city of Penzberg wants to ecologically upgrade large areas of its approximately 100 hectare Gut Hub site.
The development concept also includes new meadows and near-natural forests.
The future pasture for the cattle is located to the west of the footpath between the former corn field near the estate building and the row of trees at the level of the lifting chapel.
Blackboard provides information about the Hute landscape and German Angus cattle
The city recently had a board erected near the manor building that provides information about the “hut landscape” and the “German Angus” cattle that will graze there in the future.
The approximately 1.10 meter high electric fence, which consists of untreated acacia posts and three rows of galvanized steel wire, has been in construction since this Monday.
The fence will be around 1,500 meters long to delimit the pasture area, which also includes a piece of the forest adjacent to the west.
Family takes over the grazing
Last June, Carl-Christian Wippermann, head of the city's climate and environmental protection department, announced during a tour that the Penzberg Demmel family would take over the grazing and that they would bring the "German Angus" cattle breed with them, which is considered the ideal landscape manager (we reported ).
The naturally hornless cattle, it was said at the time, free open fallow areas or overgrown pastures from unwanted vegetation, so that habitat for animal and plant species is created or maintained.
A fence is being built for the pasture this week;
In the picture above, part-time farmer Peter Demmel (r.), who is supported by Johannes Jauß (l.).
© Wolfgang Schörner
The time for grazing is now approaching.
Peter Demmel, who runs part-time farming with sheep, horses, mules and “German Angus” cattle in Maxkron with his wife Anna and their children, estimates that the animals will be put out to pasture at the end of April or perhaps at the beginning of May.
There will probably be four cows and four calves initially, to see how things go.
Overall, it should remain a “low stocking density”, as was said last June.
According to Demmel, the trend is towards seven or eight mother cows and seven or eight calves, perhaps this year, perhaps next year.
Cattle return to Maxkron in winter
Originally it was thought that the cattle would be at Gut Hub all year round.
The frugal and robust animals with their strong claws would definitely be suitable for this.
However, this was abandoned again because of the calving in winter.
The effort would have been too great, says Peter Demmel.
A special hut would have been needed for this.
The family is now planning to bring the cattle back to Maxkron at the end of October and beginning of November, when the weather gets worse.
Around the middle or end of April, the cows and their calves would return to the pasture at Gut Hub.
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Incidentally, the long black pipe that lies on the edge of the footpath to the Hub Chapel has nothing to do with grazing or the fence.
It belongs to the Bayernwerk, which lays power lines at Gut Hub, and will soon disappear into the ground.