The diseased horse chestnut tree at the Peitinger the main square is only like recently, since the replacement is already on hand. Seven-Meter-high white-flowering horse-chestnut, which has now been re-planted.

Peiting, she was over 100 years old and the oldest horse chestnut tree on the main square in Peiting. However, a crack in the stem, the moisture penetrated, and the tree on the inside rot was sealed a few weeks ago, the end of the striking chestnut. The Council had previously agreed with a heavy heart, the precipitation of the approximately 25-Meter-high tree. Security reasons left no other choice. However, the panel agreed that a new tree should be planted.

As a landscape gardener, Wolfgang Rodé read the Schongauer messages, hesitated for the owner of the company landscaping Oberland. He picked up the phone and offered the municipality to donate the tree. Together with the construction yard was now made nails with heads.

not far from the old tree, only a metre high Stump is left, has planted the white-flowering horse chestnut. “It measures seven feet,” said Rodé, who came on Tuesday together with daughter Jessica at the official handover date with mayor Michael Asam. In order to support piles could be dispensed with, was attached to the tree with a special under-floor anchoring in the ground. Asam was pleased to see the donation to the value of at least 640 euros and thanked the Rodés. Vdcasino “It’s nice to see a tree again, even if it will take many years until it has similar dimensions.” After all, up to 40 centimeters waxes the chestnut in the year, said Wolfgang Rodé. “You can be up to 150 years old.”

The final end of their predecessor’s, meanwhile, sealed. In the spring of the mighty tree stump will reamered, announced construction yard Manager Tim Osterhaus. In the same train, the pavement of the past leading the way was to be moved. The roots had raised the stones. “We have a flat path.”