The groundbreaking ceremony has now taken place for the climbing hall of Naturefriends at the Wettersteinring in Dachau. It took three and a half years to complete the financing.
Dachau - she may not be familiar to the common hobby climber, but Lynn Hill is a legend among mountain fans. Nevertheless, there is a common ground between the American extreme climber and the Dachau friends of nature, who are otherwise not known to conquer unsecured steep rock faces.
“Be relaxed and patient,” is Hills' secret of success; and this secret of success, said Mayor Florian Hartmann on Thursday, was probably also the key with which nature lovers now come to their climbing hall in the large district town. On Thursday, Hartmann, together with city councils, representatives of Naturefriends, and district councilors, now did the symbolic groundbreaking.
As reported, the nature lovers managed to manage the financing of the large project after a three-year hanging game. The investment costs of around 4.3 million euros are now being funded on the one hand by private sponsors and on the other hand by a loan from the Stadtsparkasse Munich. In accordance with the plans of architect Maximilian Engelhart, the money will now be used to build a climbing hall with outbuildings that meets both sporting and ecological requirements.
What particularly impressed OB Hartmann about the concept: the social component. According to the plans of nature lovers, there should be discounts for people with low incomes. "Everyone has the opportunity to climb!"
The developer, Naturfreunde state chairman Christian Schwarzkopf called the groundbreaking a "milestone" after the Naturefriends bought the property at Wettersteinring 14 16 years ago and spent the past three and a half years regulating the financing. District Administrator Stefan Löwl announced that he would soon like to use the hall himself: "But only an easier way, where the OB and I are allowed to climb." Given the mass tourism in the Alps, the climbing hall is an ideal alternative for people "who are physically want to operate ". Because: "Now the mountains come to us!"
According to architect Engelhart, the excavation work should be carried out in April and the construction work should be completed by autumn. His goal: "That we open this year."
