The garden office is planting over 100 new trees in the city

In autumn and winter, the garden department had to cut down hundreds of dead and sick trees for traffic safety reasons. The main causes are the drought and the heat of the past two years, according to a press release. The Sieboldswäldchen and the Ringpark formed a focal point of the tree felling. Many have been affected by classic park and street trees for centuries, such as beech, maple, large-leaved lime, small-leaved lime, birch and ash.

Are particularly painful for Dr. Helge Bert Grob the 88 dead trees in the ring park, some of which date from the time they were created. These include five mighty beech trees in the area of ​​the X-ray ring and Haugerring. A giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron) had been ill in the Berliner Platz area for several years. Even a month-long emergency irrigation by the garden department with thousands of liters of water could no longer save the giant tree.

Bird cherries, maple castles and cedars planted

In a first step, the garden office has planted 108 new trees. This was a special effort during the emergency operation in the past few weeks with a greatly reduced number of staff. One focus was the Sieboldswald. Here, an avenue with 18 native wild cherries was planted as an entrance from Zeppelinstrasse. In addition, five castle maples and 13 cedars were planted in the area of ​​the large meadows.

The maple, or French maple, has the northern limit of its distribution in southwestern Germany. However, there are also specimens in the climate-favored locations of Lower Franconia. Here it could be overgrown from castle gardens, hence the regional name “castle maple”. During flowering, it pampers numerous insects, especially bees, with plenty of nectar. The cedars, which are tolerable to drought, are a replacement for the dead black pines, which are particularly affected by climate change. “We planted both the Atlas cedar and the Lebanon cedar to test which species is particularly suitable for the location,” said Dr. Rough. The home of the Atlas cedar is the North African Atlas Mountains. A particularly picturesque example is in Würzburg on Theaterstrasse – on the grounds of the Annastift. Lebanon cedar is distributed along the Mediterranean coast of South and Southwest Anatolia, in Lebanon and in Syria. Lebanon cedar has also been a popular park tree for centuries.

No more tree plantings from May

Other focal points of the new tree plantings of the garden office were the Zellerau (Mainaustrasse and Friedrichstrasse) as well as Heidingsfeld and Versbach. Among other things, hop beech, elm, silver linden, ginkgo and smoothie were planted here – all tree species that have proven to be particularly compatible with the urban climate. Preparations for further tree plantings by the garden office are in full swing

As of May, tree plantings can generally no longer be carried out due to the warm and dry weather. Preparations for the autumn plantings are already in full swing. Dr. Grob: “For example, in the Stern-Platz area, we are using the time until the reopening of the outdoor dining on May 18 to improve this prominent tree location.”

Time-consuming preparations in the ring park

For this purpose, parts of the patch are picked up, the tree pit expanded and finally filled with planting substrate. The work is accompanied by an experienced archaeologist. In addition, the underground lines must be kept in view. So every tree planting in the city center becomes a small, large construction site.

The garden office then creates the new tree pits in the ring park. In this case too, the locations for the new trees are anything but ideal. Often, rock or war rubble near the surface characterize the subsoil. Here too, the results are very complex preparations. Mayor Martin Heilig and speaker Wolfgang Kleiner agree: “Regardless of this, our goal is to plant hundreds more trees in autumn”.

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• Wurzburg

• Atlas Mountains

• Tree species

• Friedrichstrasse

• Heidingsfeld

• autumn

• Inner cities

• Sick

• winter

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