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Hamburg Court Temporarily Blocks Tree Felling in Wilhelmsburg’s ‘Wilder Wald’

The order buys time for judicial review of Nabu’s emergency challenge before the 28 February felling cutoff.

Overview

  • The Hamburg Administrative Court issued a provisional injunction halting all felling and clearing in the Wilder Wald and ordered the Hamburg-Mitte district office to stop works pending a further decision.
  • Nabu filed the urgent application and called the ruling a partial victory, stating it will continue seeking full protection of the woodland.
  • The disputed first step involved about 790 square meters within the roughly nine-hectare site, which is slated in the Spreehafenviertel plans for around 1,100 homes on that parcel.
  • Nabu has said the 790-square-meter strip was offered in a land exchange with a neighboring developer, a point contested in the broader dispute over the area.
  • Activists protested at the site Tuesday morning with some tree occupations as police monitored the registered rally, and the occupation was later cleared, according to taz, while a final court decision is still pending.