Felling of natural monument trees in Röhrsdorf
A total of four old lime trees have to be felled from the groups of trees in Röhrsdorf ("Winterlindenallee Röhrsdorf" and "Baumgruppe Röhrsdorf"), which are protected as natural monuments, for traffic safety reasons. The avenue on Kirchberg, which once consisted of 13 winter lime trees, will then only consist of eight old trees and the Röhrsdorf group of trees will only consist of one of three trees.
An externally commissioned expert report confirms that the trees no longer offer sufficient road safety due to their severely advanced core rot and their proximity to the road. One of these lime trees was already in such acute danger of breaking that it had to be felled before the end of the year.
The trees have already been shortened several times in the last two decades due to increasing requirements in terms of road safety and some have been given crown stabilisation. The aesthetic effect, which is also crucial for a natural monument, is severely impaired in some of the trees, which now only consist of a trunk torso. In addition, the vitality of some trees is obviously declining.
However, these old hollow trunks in particular also represent a special small biotope, in that they sometimes serve as a shelter for bats and provide a very important habitat for insects. For this reason, the Environment Agency is having the trunks of the old felled trees erected as a so-called deadwood pyramid in Ebersdorf in order to utilise the trunk wood for the benefit of insect diversity.