First the bumblebees, now the Romans

Did the ancient Romans once pass by the Erbistal in Reichling?

This question arose in the course of the designation of two further building sites in Reichling.

For this reason, the zoning plan procedure has now been discontinued.

Reichling

- As reported, the Reichling community wanted to expand the "Erbistal" building area on the southern edge of the village that had already grown.

In the process, further difficulties arose: while in the previous meeting it was the protected bumblebees that the municipal council had to deal with more intensively (we reported), now it is the ancient Romans.

According to a tip from the population, a former Roman road could be located on the desired area for expansion.

But what has not yet been finally clarified: Mayor Johannes Leis has meanwhile found out that the old Roman road probably does not run directly along the building area, but further south.

This point should now be clarified more precisely by the State Office for Monument Preservation.

Until the final clarification, the municipality will not take any further steps towards the construction site designation, as the municipality council has now decided.

So far, the State Office for Monument Preservation of the Reichling community had only recommended that an archaeologist be involved in the planning.

The comments from the authorities at the time only stated that it was a "suspected area": ​​the soil removal may have to be accompanied.

If monuments are found during the excavations, then the buyer could be granted a right of withdrawal, the head of administration Wolfgang Hentschke had already informed in the previous municipal council meeting.

In the most recent meeting, however, concerns were expressed in the local council about selling the property with conditions.

In addition, doubts arose as to whether the proceedings should be continued at all - or whether it would not be better to keep this “historical peculiarity” in public hands for the future.

As far as the landscape is concerned, possible negative effects had already been discussed.

The suspected bumblebees, on the other hand, would be less of a problem: They could - in contrast to the possible Roman road - easily be relocated.

In the most recent meeting, councilor Hans-Jürgen Korn suggested that the land-use plan procedure should be reconsidered and that a decision should be taken as to whether the procedure should be continued or not.

After all, since the decision was made to set up the building, a wide variety of new facts had arisen that were not previously known.

The mayor finally put Korn's suggestion to the vote: seven councilors voted for the land-use plan procedure to be discontinued, five against.

The majority of the committee thus decided not to advance the process "until facts emerge that clear up the ambiguities," as the resolution says.

Manuela Schmid