Good news for Wolfratshausen: the bed at the Littig villa is becoming a lesson. The main sponsor bears around 10,000 euros of the costs.
Wolfratshausen – Sweet violets, spotted lungwort, orange hawkweed or the forest scabious are soon to beautify the bed around the former Littig villa and at the same time provide insects with food. The house itself has been used by the Inselhaus child and youth welfare service for decades. Not only the management is housed here, but also the remedial day-care center (HPT). The redesign should also contribute to making the 18 children who are currently being cared for here more aware of their environment.
Wolfratshausen: Beet at Littig-Villa becomes a lesson – “Was completely weedy”
But before the children can grab the shovel and plant, the first step was to secure the financing, since the entire floor of the approximately 70 square meter area had to be replaced. “It was completely weedy,” says Elke Burghardt, responsible for public relations and at the same time chairwoman of the Inselhaus Children’s Fund Foundation. During the work it turned out that a new water protection film had to be installed. “We come up with total costs of around 15,000 euros.”
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The main sponsor with almost 10,000 euros is Bavaria Baumwelt. The employees working with Marko and Enrico Leinung spent a day digging up the root system, brought in gravel, laid the said protective film and placed a root trunk and other dead wood to provide insects with a place to settle. “We’ve been working with Inselhaus for a long time,” says Marco Leinung. “It was simply important to us to help here.” Other supporters are the ladies from Inner Wheel Munich Residenz (1000 euros) and the Inselhaus Friends Group (1500) as well as the Inselhaus Children’s Fund Foundation (1500).
Lesson learned at the Littig Villa: “It was simply a matter of concern for us to help here”
The ideas for designing the area go back to Franz Straubinger from the company Naturgrün, who specializes in natural gardens. 250 native wild perennials and flowering plants as they are known from nature reserves are to be planted. “In this way, we offer many specialized insects a habitat,” he says. Another 500 bulbs will follow in autumn.
The aim is not only to do something for the animals. The children of the HPT will set up informative display boards for passers-by and use the new biotope for animal observation and their connections with the plants as food themselves with magnifying glasses.sh
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