Of gardening, neighbours and large trees

[Guest]

have you thought about getting your own insurance ?

 

That way, you wont worry about hers!!

 

 

[mtbiking 1,887]

 

have you thought about getting your own insurance ?

 

That way, you wont worry about hers!!

 

I have the house insured, as well as the contents. I'm however not sure if/how the insurance would cover it since the tree is not in my garden and it's clearly been neglected. I guess I'll need to call my insurance company.

[Guest]

Neglected??   What?  You mean they left it outside tied to a dog??   

 

Never took it out for excersise?  Just left it in the garden all day?...

 

 

You need to talk to RSPCTs...    

[mtbiking 1,887]

Neglected??   What?  You mean they left it outside tied to a dog??   

 

Never took it out for excersise?  Just left it in the garden all day?...

 

 

You need to talk to RSPCTs...    

  Carving the heart out of a tree (or a person) is clearly a form of (brutal) neglect. 

[Mik Dickinson 443]

@mtbiking

 

dont worry about it.If the tree falls on your house and causes damage your uinsurance will come round.Look at it pay you the damages caused and then sue the arse off your neighbour

[snowingagain 5,214]

Link to Munich Ordnugsamt about trees:

 

http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Referat-fuer-Stadtplanung-und-Bauordnung/Natur-Landschafts-Baumschutz/Baumschutz/FAQ-Baumschutz.html

 

Perhaps you could ask them what to do to establish whether the tree is now in a dangerous condition..  

 

Perhaps the cutting back of the roots might have been too enthusiastic.

 

OK if the tree falls down and smashes your house you can sue your neighbour:  but it might be better to try and prevent it happening.  And if the tree is dangerous I doubt an insurance company is going to insure against it falling down.

 

Windy here today.

[emale 96]

Resurrecting the thread!

We are living in a rented apartment on the ground floor with a garden sharing a fence (ours is wired whereas the neighbour has a wooden fence seen in pic below) with a retired year old neighbour who owns a house beside the garden. The neighbours often complained that the Ivy which is growing on the edge of both our gardens is bothering her. Personally, I like the ivy and would not like to remove it. The ivy is not blocking the water drainage neither on my side nor on my neighbours side.

My neighbour also has a huge maple (ahorn) tree in her garden (atleast 3-4 storeys high) which in winter loses 80-90% of the leaves in our garden, blocks sunlight but i never complained about it as I love nature.

Is the neighbour in her right to nastily tell me that i have to cut the ivy and threatens that she will inform the landlord? As Germany is a law loving country, can anybody point me out to the laws on this? On our local gemeinde website, I was not able to find anything but I live in München Landkreis. Thanks for your help!

[emale 96]

The brown wooden fence is actually in neighbours garden to fend off prying eyes.

[fraufruit 41,975]

You do you and let her do her. She can cut it down on her side.

 

I reckon her maple tree makes some nice shade for you in the summer and it looks nice.

[emale 96]

Indeed, the maple tree is nice and makes a good shade enhancing moss growth and i really like the huge tree. As you can see from the pic, I don`t intend to cut the ivy but keep it off from clogging the drains. I did tell her that she is free to cut her side but she wants me to come to her garden and cut it which i flatly denied. Just looking for the law which explicitly states this...

[fraufruit 41,975]

Let her look for the law and enjoy your ivy.

[LukeSkywalker 7,605]

1 hour ago, emale said:

 I did tell her that she is free to cut her side but she wants me to come to her garden and cut it which i flatly denied.

You can tell her that you will cut it for her, but in return she can clean up the leaves in winter from her maple tree 👻.

[PandaMunich 16,609]

4 hours ago, emale said:

Resurrecting the thread!

We are living in a rented apartment on the ground floor with a garden sharing a fence (ours is wired whereas the neighbour has a wooden fence seen in pic below) with a retired year old neighbour who owns a house beside the garden. The neighbours often complained that the Ivy which is growing on the edge of both our gardens is bothering her. Personally, I like the ivy and would not like to remove it. The ivy is not blocking the water drainage neither on my side nor on my neighbours side.

My neighbour also has a huge maple (ahorn) tree in her garden (atleast 3-4 storeys high) which in winter loses 80-90% of the leaves in our garden, blocks sunlight but i never complained about it as I love nature.

Is the neighbour in her right to nastily tell me that i have to cut the ivy and threatens that she will inform the landlord? As Germany is a law loving country, can anybody point me out to the laws on this? On our local gemeinde website, I was not able to find anything but I live in München Landkreis. Thanks for your help!

Ivy destroys masonry.

See here for what a lawyer wrote about encroaching ivy: https://www-frag--einen--anwalt-de.translate.goog/Efeu-wuchert-vom-Nachbargrundstueck-auf-mein-Grundstueck--f227008.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[optimista 5,846]

I would keep it off the wall... it will retain the damp and destroy the facade if you leave it... but let it cover the rotten wooden fence.

 

Oh how i miss my Munich neighbours  ... not ... and their sichtschutz and their overbearing interest in what goes on in other people s gardens. 

[jeba 4,349]

On 7.9.2015, 11:09:44, mtbiking said:

OK, if possible I'd appreciate a few words of advice on the following situation. Or maybe I just need to rant.

 

I live in a rowhouse. My neighbor, who is currently renting her place out during a supposedly one year stay in the UK, has decided this spring to renovate her garden/garden house in a way that involved cutting large root pieces of a huge (higher than a four store building) pine tree she has in her garden. She originally wanted to have the tree removed but balked at the price.  OK, not my business I thought (and had other things to worry about), I did talk to her when I saw how much of the roots the Handwerker were actually removing but to no avail. She told me that they had guaranteed that the tree would be OK and that was it.

 

Fast forward 6 months: the tree is dying or dead already. The upper 3/4 of the tree have lost most of the leaves

 and the remaining ones are brown. I'm now afraid that the tree will fall onto my garden/house and in worst case hurt someone. I phoned the neighbor and she started complaining that she has no money to take care of the problem, which also makes me wonder whether she's adequately insured..

 

So, in the end my question is: can we do something to protect ourselves? And what are the possible legal consequences if the tree falls, bzw. which insurance would she need to have to cover the costs (halbpflicht?) and what happens if she doesn't? I feel bad about the tree too, it provided us with a beautiful view and was home to a lot of wildlife. if I knew then what I know now I'd have actively tried to stop her.

 

The next house I'm buying will be free-standing. F.. neighbours. 

 

What about an update? Did the tree survive? What variety of pinetrees has leaves?

[mtbiking 1,887]

1 hour ago, jeba said:

What about an update? Did the tree survive? What variety of pinetrees has leaves?

 

The tree died and was removed. The neighbour was further cheated by the subcontractor and there were tears all around. I meant needles.  A couple years later I moved to a bigger house (not related). All that happened a long, long time ago 

[snowingagain 5,214]

45 minutes ago, mtbiking said:

 

I meant needles. 

(conifer) needles are leaves...