Arboriculture and Maintenance
- Faculty
Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
Version 1 of 14.07.2025.
- Module identifier
44B0037
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
Students should be enabled to devise sustainable plantings in the triad of expert planning, professional planting and thoughtful maintenance. Although the latter accounts for a large proportion of life cycle costs, social appreciation and the provision of funds are often not on an equal level. This situation can only be counteracted with well-trained specialist staff and well thought-out green space management. Individual development, dynamic growth processes, competition and their interaction with maintenance interventions play a decisive role in the development of plantings, particularly in the case of tree and perennial plantings.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
- Arboriculture
- Tree biology
- Basics of pruning
- Crown architecture
- Damage symptoms and maintenance measures (practical and legal aspects)
- Tree access techniques
- Perennial plant maintenance
- Quality patterns
- Maintenance targets
- Plant dynamics and strategy types
- Maintenance strategies and concepts
- Weeds
- Maintenance measures
- Urban disease and pest conrol
- Damage symptoms on woody plants and perennials
- Pathogens
- Pests
- Plant protection
- Arboriculture
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Lecture - 30 Practice - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 45 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 45 Exam preparation -
- Graded examination
- Written examination or
- Homework / Assignment or
- oral exam or
- Oral presentation, with written elaboration
- Remark on the assessment methods
The standard form of examination is the written examination, 2 hours (alternative form of examination may be chosen by the examiner and then announced at the beginning of the course)
- Exam duration and scope
written exam, 2 hours,
alternatively term paper: 15 pages or verbal examination: 20 minutes or Oral report: circa 10-15 minute presentation plus a ca. 10 page written analysis
- Recommended prior knowledge
Planting Design, Vegetation Engineering
- Knowledge Broadening
After successfully completing this module, students will have acquired a wide range of knowledge on the subject of arboriculture and the maintenance of perennial plantings.
- Knowledge deepening
Students deepen their knowledge of pruning, tree access options and perennial plants maintenance.
- Knowledge Understanding
After successfully completing this module, students are able to draw up maintenance concepts and plans using subject-specific methods and procedures and to check their implementation possibilities in close cooperation with the profession.
- Application and Transfer
Students who have successfully completed this module draw up maintenance plans for green spaces that take into account the special features in terms of plants, organization and economy.
- Academic Innovation
Students independently combine design, ecological and economic skills and aspects learned in other modules to create situation-related maintenance concepts.
- Communication and Cooperation
The students present their results to the study group or external cooperation partners and optimize their work in a critical discussion.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
After successfully completing this module, students are able to compile maintenance concepts and plans using subject-specific methods and techniques and to check their realization possibilities in close cooperation with the profession.
- Literature
Baumgarten, Heiner, Dirk Dujesiefken & Thomas Rieche (2012): Baumpflege im Jahresverlauf: Schnittzeiten im Einklang mit der Naturschutz. Braunschweig: Haymarket Media.
Bouillon, Jürgen (Hrsg.) (2013): Handbuch der Staudenverwendung. Stuttgart: Ulmer.
Dietz, Markus et al. (2014): Artenschutz und Baumpflege. Braunschweig: Haymarket Media.
Dujeseifken, Dirk & Walter Liese (2008): Das CODIT-Prinzip: Von den Bäumen lernen für eine fachgerechte Baumpflege. Braunschweig: Haymarket Media.
FLL (Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau e. V.) (2006): ZTV-Baumpflege. 5. Ausgabe. Bonn.
Roloff, Andreas (2013): Baumpflege. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart: Ulmer.
- Linkage to other modules
Project Planting Design, Bachelor thesis
- Applicability in study programs
- Landscape Engineering
- Landscape Engineering B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
- Open Space Planning
- Open Space Planning B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
- Person responsible for the module
- Bouillon, Jürgen
- Teachers
- Bouillon, Jürgen
- Neubauer, Christian
- Unknown person
- Further lecturer(s)
Deppe, Svenja