Tree on neighbor's property - need for action and possibilities?

I wouldn't say that. I do believe that some people here largely try to leave a small footprint. But I also don't find anything wrong with cutting down a tree within a designated settlement area if a replacement planting is made according to the applicable regulations. It can also be noted that a tree binds particularly much CO2 during its growth phase. Furthermore, ecological calculations could also take into account the increased resource consumption, because you have to wash your car and windows every two weeks as well as renew the plaster every 10 instead of every 20 years, and regularly spray your plants against aphids. I am not sure right now why some speak here of low "Klebbelastung" or what that depends on. My experiences in the city are definitely characterized by a lot of honeydew near lindens.

Lol, what a farce this is. I don't believe any of you would hold this conviction if it affected you personally. Big talk, but driving your car to the bakery. Accusing others of recklessness, but wasting huge amounts of building materials for far too large new buildings. You are hypocrites, nothing else.

Joker. Within town, I walk my routes, not just to the bakery. The sheet metal of my car has been serving its transformation into a bodywork for twenty years now, Greta will probably forgive the combustion engine for that. As a tenant, I keep to the space I need. The house is otherwise large, yes, but it provides room for other users of the stairwell, and it was new in the year I was born.

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Do we have any way to do something against this linden tree on the neighboring property

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I explicitly said that I am currently only thinking about possible problems and options. I never said that I will simply cut down that thing now.

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Thank you very much for your advice!

What else does "doing something AGAINST a tree" mean, please? As a nature and insect lover, you should be able to weigh the impairment caused by shade, leaves, pollen, etc. against an intact natural environment without any problems.

Sorry guys, I’m saying goodbye as a participant in this forum. I just don’t like the tone here. [...] Thanks anyway for all the answers. I’m off then. I’m probably not suited for this atmosphere here.

After all, it’s much nicer here (except in the financing section) than in the green one ;-) Seriously: "Internet" is spelled with only one "t", and a house-building forum is not a girls' boarding school. Sometimes advice comes with unwanted comments, but you don’t have to swallow the shells :)

Well, I have let myself be tempted to take another look here.

As I said, we have a very large linden tree opposite, and I have never cleaned my windows or my car because of the tree. And I don't buy into the rest of the nonsense either, we live as four people in a 100-year-old 100m2 end-terrace house, I avoid plastic wherever possible (since then we have 70% less plastic waste), buy almost everything in deposit jars/deposit glass bottles, unpackaged or, if necessary, also in cartons, buy my dry supplies from the zero-waste store, travel privately almost exclusively by bus/train/train, garden ecologically, preserve my own fruit, haven't flown in 10 years, buy a lot second-hand. Of course, we are not free of "sin," we still have one car, which mostly just sits there but is used for vacations and once a week for shopping, we (still) only have gas heating, but this will be converted as soon as possible wherever possible. I certainly don't belong to those with hollow phrases, nor do I claim the halo for myself. But cutting down a healthy linden tree that isn't even in the way is beyond me. And it takes decades for such a linden to grow that tall again.

The approximately 10-12m high thuja of my neighbors also endlessly sprinkles our garage roof, every year you can scoop out buckets of dirt from the gutter and the roof. And although a thuja is not even very valuable ecologically, it would never occur to me to demand that this magnificent specimen of a tree should be cut down. No thanks, I'd rather clear a few buckets of dirt off the roof once a year.

There is hardly anything more desolate than new housing developments where the tallest object in the garden is the trampoline. I would be happy to have such a linden tree, especially in a nice, hot summer in the partial shade.