In 2016, the BUND Nature Conservation (BN) and the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) reported large-scale clear cuts that the Frstlich Lwenstein’sche forest administration in Wlder near Hafenlohr had cut in the winter of 2015. From the BN’s point of view, this “radical liquidation of old, ecologically extremely valuable beech forests was a huge scandal”, which appalled not only nature conservationists, but also forest visitors and foresters. For the Frstlich Lwenstein’sche Forestry Office, on the other hand, there was “no violation of nature conservation”.
According to a press release by the Bund Naturschutz in the Frstlich Lwenstein’schen Park, this procedure in the formerly extensive, old beech forests “apparently has a system and has unfortunately not yet been stopped by the nature conservation and forestry authorities or the competent courts”. The BN district chairman Erwin Scheiner also writes: “Despite multiple inquiries from the authorities and the administrative court, I was unable to find out anything about the status or the possible result of the administrative court proceedings that were initiated at the time.”
Procedure postponed due to corona
The fact that the felling was stopped on December 17, 2015 by the Main-Spessart District Office due to improper forest management, had in turn ensured that the Princely House went to court against the order of the authorities. Stefan Beyer, the head of the forestry enterprise Frst zu Lwenstein, now writes at the request of the editors: “According to our information, the process is about to be completed. Unfortunately, the process has been postponed due to corona. We cannot tell you the exact date at the moment an early conclusion of the proceedings. “
Scheiner recalls that “at that time, hundreds of thick, old beeches were ruthlessly cut down on well over 100,000 square meters in the European bird sanctuary Spessart and removed from the forest, including many valuable cave and biotope trees, habitat for many rare and strictly protected birds and insects. and bat species “. The Princely House removed the beeches to make room for fast-growing Douglas firs. When hiking through the battered forests one comes to the sad result “that up to now well over 100 hectares, i.e. over a million square meters of valuable, old beech forests have either completely disappeared or largely ruined”. The Spessart Nature Park within the Lwenstein estates is losing its typical landscape forever.
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BN: State government should ban such “forest crime”
“We demand that these proceedings before the Wrzburg Administrative Court be concluded after more than four years,” said Scheiner. “It is also possible, however, that this is not so easy due to the lack of a legal basis: the state government has so far stubbornly refused to prohibit such forest crimes and to impose a fee on them”. The BN demands that the state government make improvements immediately, because otherwise it would bear joint responsibility for such offenses.
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