I love Bambësch and the concept of urban forests.

Bambësch is huge at almost 900 ha and appears to have been very carefully planned and planted.

I could not find anything resources online about when they started “designing” it.

Anyone know more about this?

4 comments

  1. All I remember is that around 1990 a lot got destroyed during some bad storm. There were a lot of open patches afterwards. Not sure if these trees are the result of 30+ years of growing though. I’ll leave that to our forest experts.

  2. Such rows of trees appear to me more like regular logging activity. An area is cleared and then replanted, but perhaps it only works on flat terrain. I’ve never seen such trees on an incline

  3. As Polchen, above, said, there was a hurricane in the early 90es that destroyed much of the forest. My mother saw it and told me that everything looked like a black and white picture, all the trees down. Your picture is the result of reforestation. A pity that the geometrical tree lines are not natural and according to recent studies, not attractive to wildlife and birds.

    Still much, much better than cement.

  4. Based on what people are saying, it seems this was the cyclone:

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkan_Wiebke

    Also called storm Daria, and a few days later storm Herta, a lot of them within a span of a week.

    Wort appears to have a story but behind paywall.

    https://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/vor-30-jahren-wenn-ein-sturm-ein-land-verwuestet-5e57f1e6da2cc1784e357162

    https://www.rtl.lu/news/international/a/1477166.html

    This Luxembourg forestry report showcases how bad 1990 was (page 32):

    https://i.imgur.com/TPMUEm0.png

    https://environnement.public.lu/content/dam/environnement/documents/natur/forets/NFAP-Luxembourg-2019-review.pdf

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