23. November 2022

Wir wollen die Pflanzung ja niemals beenden

Project

"We never want to stop planting” (Joseph Beuys)

Zeitlupe, Ahrensburg

Projekt

"We never want to stop planting” (Joseph Beuys)

Zeitlupe, Ahrensburg

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Organisation/Company
Zeitlupe, Ahrensburg

Project name
"We never want to stop planting” (Joseph Beuys)

Project period
01.01.2023 – 31.12.2026

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Project partner

Zeitlupe (“slow motion”) is a no-profit society dedicated to the preservation of threatened cultural heritage. It focuses mainly on collections of pictures, words and landscapes. Projects that now also enjoy nationwide attention and support have been developed over a number of years. In all areas, the society places great emphasis on cooperation with experts whose specialist knowledge provides additional support.

Project description

Germany’s most famous contemporary artist, Joseph Beuys, would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2021. Between 1982 and 1987, 7,000 oak trees – that will continue to be a characteristic part of the urban landscape – were planted all around the city of Kassel. Zeitlupe identifies very strongly with the ideas that prompted Beuys to create this work and has dedicated all its plantings since 2021 to his memory.

Over the next three years, the planting of about 1,200 new trees to preserve old fr4uit varieties is planned, with a view to planting 1,000 more in the course of the following years.

In  Dänischenhagen, in the eastern uplands near the Baltic Sea, an arboretum covering several hectares will be created for the preservation of old fruit and nut varieties. This new plantation will become an orchard meadow that provides a habitat for many insects, wild animals and grassland plants.

Project aims

  • New planting of trees to preserve old fruit varieties.
  • Care of trees and grassland.
  • Training for the staff of the farms involved to ensure that they can be cultivated independently.
  • Development of schemes that will allow people with special needs who work on the farms to pursue a meaningful occupation.

Project status

Extract from the activity report April 2024 - March 2025

Gutshaus Stellshagen

Another 80 trees are currently being planted here, including at least 50 cherry trees that are currently still in the tree nursery. The planned wild fruit orchard, consisting of 30 fruit trees, has been established.

Beginnende Speierlingsblüte
The beginning of the Speierling blossom in Stellhagen

 

Hof Grüner Weg Oederquart

Another 80 trees were passed on. In February 2025, the entire fruit population was mapped and some special features were identified for the further development of the conservation project. Of particular note is an avenue of unknown old sour cherries (photo), possibly an old, robust variety was discovered here.

Neupflanzung
Replanting


Unusual, the sour cherry avenue

 

Gut Wulfsdorf, Ahrensburg

Around 120 trees and shrubs (wild and cultivated forms) were made available for the main objective, the reintroduction of wild fruit trees and shrubs.

Kornelkirschenblüte
First cornelian cherry blossom at the end of February 2025

 

Hof Klostersee, Cismar

Here, 73 fruit trees were planted on an area that was still grazed and large planting frames were erected.


Material was delivered with heavy equipment

 

Erdmannshof, Krukow

At the end of 2024, 20 trees were planted on a grazed area, and the planting of further trees and the maintenance of the old stock of 50 trees is planned.


Very important in the background: the catering mobile with coffee and cake

 

Picture credits: all pictures Michael Heißenberg