The hotel "Edelweiss Lodge & Resort" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen is considered a hotspot after a coronavirus outbreak.
Two other hotels suffer too - because they have the same name.
There are three hotels called "Edelweiß" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The Edelweiss Lodge & Resort has numerous corona infected people.
A “super spreader” works there.
Now guests are canceling their bookings in two other Edelweiß hotels.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- One place, three edelweiss - as strange as it sounds, it is currently problematic for the operators of two other hotels in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Because if you are currently talking about the Edelweiss Hotel, in most cases it is not exactly positive.
Superspreader works and lives in the "Edelweiss Lodge & Resort"
The reason is obvious: The 26-year-old American, who wandered through the nightlife of the market town in a highly infectious manner and who may have infected numerous people with the corona virus, works and lives at the Edelweiss Lodge & Resort.
This is what the US armed forces operate on Zugspitzstrasse, cut off from the outside world and not even bookable for a German.
Hotel Edelweiß of the Bundeswehr in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: No arrival since Saturday, guests rebook
On the other hand, Karsten Handrup sits in his
hotel called Edelweiß
on Martinswinkelstrasse
.
It is the house of the social welfare work of the Bundeswehr.
Basically a similar construct to that used by the Americans.
Active and former guests can rent the accommodation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
"Not a single journey since Saturday,"
complains Handrup.
“Many have rebooked.” The people from abroad would not differentiate between the different edelweiss variants.
"I alone have 15 to 20 phone calls a day in which I have to explain that we are not the hotel with the infected," says the hotel manager.
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Number II suffered: the Hotel Edelweiß of the Bundeswehr on Martinswinkelstrasse.
© FOTOPRESS THOMAS VERY
24 people tested positive to the last in the other house, the Edelweiss Lodge & Resort.
Even if it cannot be said with certainty whether they can all be traced back to the 26-year-old, she now faces a severe penalty.
The prosecutor is investigating.
Hotel Almenrausch & Edelweiß in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: sad situation, worried calls, cancellations
Maximilian Härtl feels similar to his hotel colleague on Martinswinkelstrasse.
His family has been running the
Hotel Almenrausch & Edelweiß
on Kreuzstrasse in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
since 1932
.
"It looks really sad for us now,"
emphasizes the managing director.
“We weren't badly booked recently, after we had completely lost our passion,” emphasizes Härtl, whose grandfather bought the hotel in 1932.
"But it was over since Saturday."
Many guests call, "They are afraid".
Those he comes into contact with understand the situation and realize that this is the wrong hotel.
But some cancel without asking.
"That really throws us back now."
Skirmishes with the Americans are nothing new to the Härtls.
When the armed forces wanted to open their lodge after the turn of the millennium, the name actually came up.
"They wanted to have him for themselves," emphasizes Härtl.
"They had invested a million dollars in advertising, it was said at the time." But the family did not allow themselves to be lathered, stayed tough - and the name Edelweiss.
“Since then, there has always been a single guest at the door - in front of the wrong house.
It used to be full of busloads. ”Because the US garrison initially kept their house a secret after the attack in 2001.