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On the Vennbahnweg, the tree maintenance staff of Aachener Stadtbetrieb carry out tree care measures. Among other things, they ensure that the trees are kept safe for traffic.

From Monday, February 3, to Friday, February 7, work will be carried out on the Vennbahnweg in the section between Debyestraße and the Brand business park from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a full closure of the footpath and cycle path. The heavy equipment and the work and road safety regulations make the closure necessary. The work in this section should be completed by the weekend. In the following week, February 10 to 14, further work will be carried out in the section between the Brand business park and Eckener Straße.

In addition to tree maintenance work to ensure traffic safety, dead trees and so-called seedlings (trees with a circumference of less than 30 centimetres) that are at risk of developing into traffic hazards are also removed. Natural regeneration in the sometimes very dense tree population is urgently needed, as Nino Polazcek-Keilhauer, team leader for tree care at Aachen's municipal services, emphasizes. "These measures give other, healthy young trees a good opportunity to develop." With sufficient space, these trees can then perform their intended function and contribute to a good urban climate.

In order to also preserve and create new habitats for birds and insects, any cuttings are chopped up and distributed in the stand on site. "Where the space conditions are right, we will also leave whole pieces of trunk in the stand, which can contribute to species conservation for years to come," says Polazcek-Keilhauer. The work will of course be carried out with breeding and nesting protection in mind.