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Heritage fruit variety preservation in Germany

Overview

Efforts to preserve and distribute heritage fruit varieties are progressing in Germany through both large-scale conservation projects and individual horticultural techniques.

In the Alpine foothills, the ‘Apfel-Birne-Berge’ project has worked since 2015 to locate and preserve forgotten apple and pear varieties. These rediscovered trees are now available for purchase through various nurseries. A central ‘orchard variety ark’ in Wessobrunn preserves approximately 85 selected varieties to maintain biodiversity.

Complementing these conservation efforts, individual gardeners are using grafting to maintain multiple historical and regional varieties on single trees. In Rendsburg, a ‘100-sort tree’ has been developed by grafting various branches onto one trunk, while in Oberviechtach, a tree carrying 28 different apple varieties has been cultivated over a 25-year period.

Entities

Apfel-Birne-Berge · Anton Klaus · Georg Loferer · Oberviechtach · Weilheim-Schongau

Timeline

  1. [CULTURE] 2 sources
    German gardeners cultivate trees with multiple apple varieties

    Gardeners in Germany are using grafting techniques to grow single trees that produce dozens of different apple varieties, including rare and historical species.

  2. [CULTURE] 4 sources
    Heritage fruit varieties preserved and made available for planting in Germany

    Heritage fruit varieties in Germany's Alpine foothills are being preserved and made available for planting through local exhibitions and the ‘Apfel-Birne-Berge’ project.

Sources

allesdetten.de · amica.de · augsburger-allgemeine.de · merkur-online.de · otv.de · plegge-medien.de