As soon as there are loosened corona, the mountains are stormed again. On Sunday there was complete chaos. There was also a lot going on on Father's Day.
- Bavaria has by no means survived the corona crisis *
- But after the first loosening the people flow again from the city into the mountains
- A mayor has now written a brand letter to Munich
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Update from May 21: The media rush at Ascension Day was almost as big as the excursion traffic: On Father's Day, ZDF was just as present in the Walchensee region as the BR . After the traffic and parking collapse last Sunday, which had made headlines nationwide , the television stations, accompanied by Kochel's Mayor Thomas Holz, apparently wanted to get an idea of the situation themselves.
Excursionists from Munich: Increased police presence at Lake Walchensee obviously has an effect
They were not disappointed - even if it wasn't as busy as it was last. "It was not as bad as on Sunday," said Holz in a first assessment on Thursday afternoon. "Maybe it really did something that we tried in the media."
Holz thus alludes to the public appeals by him and his Jachenau counterpart Klaus Rauchberger (see original article below). Both had urged the day visitors to adhere to the applicable parking regulations and to be considerate of one another.
Excursion rush at Walchensee: Hiking parking lots already full at 6 a.m.
Nevertheless, yesterday, for example, the cars stood close to each other on the south bank of Lake Walchensee . "But we were able to prevent the streets and escape routes from being blocked," said police chief Johannes Kufner from Tölz. This was one of the main goals.
At the urging of wood, the two local services had received reinforcements from the motorcycle control group and a riot police unit. Holz was satisfied with the increased police presence - especially since the Koch police had “not had a minute to deal with the Walchensee issue until 3 pm”. The officials were used elsewhere.
The rush of excursionists at Tegernsee and Schliersee also brought traffic to a standstill.
In a meeting at the Ministry of the Interior next week, Holz wants to continue to support local departments on weekends and public holidays. The increased police presence had "made a powerful impression, even among the locals". Holz was surprised to find that the hikers' parking lots at the pass were in part almost full before 6 a.m. A friend told him that she was there at 5.15 a.m. According to police chief Kufner from Tölz, the opening of a meadow in Jachenau provided relaxation shortly before entering the town. "There were definitely 300 vehicles there."
Farmer in Jachenau provides meadow as parking space
Mayor Rauchberger's thanks go to farmer Josef Orterer, who made the meadow available to a car dealer. "But that is not a permanent solution." Overall, Rauchberger was satisfied. "It worked quite well, even if the rush was huge." The city hall boss suspects that there was even more going on than last Sunday. However, it was still too early for a final balance in the late Sunday afternoon because the return travel had not yet started. Police chief Kufner expected massive traffic disruptions, because experience has shown that everyone wants to drive home at once.
All parking spaces occupied: So it was on Sunday at the Walchensee.
© Lotti Rosengarten / private
Original report from May 19: Kochel / Aschau - Sunday morning in the shadow of the Kampenwand - the hiking car park Hintergschwendt is bursting at the seams. Day trippers park on the narrow access roads. Even meadows and fields of the farmer are not spared - Corona virus, was there something there?
The weather on Sunday attracted locals, but also many from Munich and the surrounding area to the mountains. For example, the police in Brannenburg reported a "steady influx of vehicles". Especially in the area of Bad Feilnbach and the Samerberg there were traffic jams due to the crowded parking lots. Around 10 a.m., the hiking parking lots were overcrowded. In Prien am Chiemsee , those seeking relaxation stormed the lake shore.
Similar pictures were depicted from the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen , where there were also a multitude of motorcyclists on the parked Kesselberg between Kochel and Walchensee . Police chief Johannes Kufner from Tölz speaks of "brutal excursion traffic". A patrol on the B 13 from Lenggries to Tölz counted almost 90 motorcycles in one direction in twelve minutes. The descriptions of the traffic situation range from "crazy" to "catastrophe" to "hell".
Corona in Bavaria: Chaos on the mountains - Mayor sends brand letter to Munich
Hans Schandl is a citizen of the small community of Jachenau . He was also annoyed by the chaos of the excursion on Sunday and wrote an email to District Administrator Josef Niedermaier. "Here politicians are urgently required to take short-term measures to prevent a traffic attack - not only for us, but also in the many other destinations." Schandl even considers " tickets " to the local recreation areas to be useful.
The latter may be an individual opinion. But the mayor of Thomas Kochel is also alarmed by the rush of day trippers, mainly from the greater Munich area . Everything was parked on the Kesselberg . "Up the hill and down the hill" there was a constant backlog. He has "never experienced such a traffic situation as on Sunday," says the mayor of Jachenau, Klaus Rauchberger. Hiking parking lots, for example at the "Schützenhaus" in Jachenau, were already full at 9 a.m. Meadows were also used as a parking lot, and the grass ready for mowing was trampled on. Rauchberger hopes that it will not always be that bad in the course of the summer - when the border with Austria is open again, day-to-day tourism could spread better.
Corona in Bavaria: Munich's cause chaos in the mountains
Kochel's mayor Thomas Holz yesterday wrote to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior asking for more personnel for the Kochel police station or for the riot police to reinforce them. "You can't cover that with just one patrol," he says. He also hopes that traffic violations will be dealt with more easily and consistently - this is where the special purpose association for municipal traffic monitoring is required.
Local resident Hans Schandl is meanwhile annoyed by the double standards of some wildlife parkers. “Although people sign at home against bee death and go out on the streets on Fridays for environmental protection . But as soon as it comes to personal freedom, everything is forgotten and it is only about your own selfishness. "
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