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After a tractor chase: Cycling on the Taubenberg is a hot topic

2020-06-06T10:20:43.920Z


Mountain bikers and property owners come together again and again on the Taubenberg. The situation has worsened with Corona. But a solution is a long time coming.


Mountain bikers and property owners come together again and again on the Taubenberg. The situation has worsened with Corona. But a solution is a long time coming.

Warngau– The other day he noticed it while walking on the Taubenberg: The mountain bikers rolled “half pipes and ski jumps” into the landscape, says Dieter Schuller. "The earth is hard as concrete," says the construction biologist from Oberwarngau. "It is an outrage what some cyclists do."

Schuller also followed the conflict that has been going on between mountain bikers and landowners on the Taubenberg for years. In the Corona crisis, cyclists are more and more active in the area, the situation has deteriorated. The situation only escalated on Father's Day when a cyclist from the district of Erding clashed with a farmer from Oberwarngau, including a chase by tractor (we reported). Since then, everyone involved has been alarmed. We have captured a picture of the mood.

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After a tractor chase: Cycling on the Taubenberg is a hot topic

The incident on Father's Day ended with a complaint that the biker filed. Because of physical injury, property damage, coercion and dangerous interference in road traffic. In the meantime, the farmer has filed a counter-notice of trespassing, reports Robert Hirschel, deputy head of the police in Holzkirchen.

The legal situation is clear: cyclists can ride on paved paths such as forest roads, explains Hirschel. Not on wild trails and across country. So it is in the Bavarian nature conservation law. And so the free right to enter nature, which many mountain bikers rely on, applies only to a limited extent. So that the situation on the Taubenberg relaxes, the police are currently sending riders upstairs (we reported).

Wolfgang Metz, deputy manager of the municipal forestry administration in Gotzing, also knows: "This is a hot topic." The district forester looks after the areas of municipal utilities and the city of Munich, which stretch over the Taubenberg. There are sometimes 500 departures a day. "There is a lot of pressure to relax." The many trails cut through nature. The soil is compacted. Wild animals no longer come to rest when cyclists ride in the dark "with balls on their brains". If the game is frightened off, hunters find it difficult to stick to their shooting plan, Metz reports. Birds would also be disturbed.

According to Katharina Löw from the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) Holzkirchen, rare birds such as pygmy owl, red-backed shrike and the disturbance-sensitive black stork live there. The Taubenberg is a SPA area, a bird sanctuary, and an FFH area with habitats such as the valuable woodruff beech forest. Both fall under a network of protected areas within the European Union, called Natura 2000.

There is another problem: tolerate a landowner trails, and then something happens, be liable, says Metz. Most of the trails are on private property. Nevertheless, his people had to dismantle a wooden structure that someone had built on urban grounds. Forest management also suffers. Owners fear that bikers will fall into the precipitation areas.

The trails are not so devastating for the water protection area of ​​the municipal utility on the Taubenberg, explains Metz. It is worse if cyclists park cars there and they lose oil. Metz hopes for a solution "where you can join". As reported, the municipality of Warngau wants to talk to private owners. According to Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber, discussions will take place from September onwards due to the corona.

The cycling clubs are also waiting for results. They want trails on which the rush is channeled, explains Georg Smolka, President of the Holzkirchen Cycling and Running Club (RSLC). Within the club, the announcement was made to avoid the Taubenberg at the moment. The Équipe Vélo is training there, says board member Frank Lochbühler. However, members should "only drive on forest roads". You don't want to provoke anyone. "The forest is big enough." Lochbühler finds the police controls in order. He noticed the enormous rush. The cemetery parking lot in Oberwarngau is often full. "They didn't hear the shot."

Source: merkur

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