In some Upper Bavarian municipalities, one would be happy if there were no day trippers at the moment.
The mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is even for a ban on excursions.
When the November weather is beautiful, many people go outside.
But many municipalities and cities are overwhelmed by the onslaught.
Especially in lockdown times, the crowds of visitors cause incomprehension.
Munich
- Elisabeth Koch still has the weekend in mind.
In the village, car to car was driven.
With license plates from
Augsburg
to
Munich
.
The mayoress (CSU) of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
said there was a traffic jam until the evening
.
She thinks the suggestion from the Chancellery to forego “tourist day tours” is correct - not just as a recommendation, but also as a
prohibition
.
Corona: Garmisch fears about its winter season due to the flow of visitors
A
ban on excursions
is the only thing that makes sense, says Koch.
“Better now and go.
We need clear rules with clear perspectives - and no more fiddling around. ”
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
lives from
tourism
, emphasizes the mayor.
“Everyone is always welcome.” And she “understands everyone who expresses it”.
But please not now and in the coming weeks of November.
Koch argues like this: If you
don't
get the
infection
numbers
down,
Christmas
and maybe the entire
winter season is
in danger.
That is why one should make the best possible use of November, which is already quieter for tourists, so that hotels and restaurants are
back in business
before
Christmas
.
But a
ban on excursions
?
She knows what that means and is no friend of
prohibitions
, emphasizes Koch.
“But it is human nature to test the limits.
We therefore need clear rules that do not need to be interpreted. ”
Ultimately,
only a
ban
is controllable.
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Corona in Bavaria: "The population can no longer catch their breath"
The mayor has just found out for herself what it means not to be allowed out.
The 58-year-old was in
quarantine
at home for two weeks
- because she was in contact with
District Administrator Anton Speer
, who tested positive.
“I've been free again since midnight on Friday,” jokes Koch.
She was lucky.
Tests negative, no corona *.
But in her environment, she says, there have sometimes been "very severe
corona courses
".
"When you see that, you no longer have any doubts about the strict
measures
."
Thomas Holz (CSU) is Mayor of
Kochel
.
The
Walchensee
also belongs to his community
.
He
does not want to speak of
a
ban
, but a state-recommended break from
excursions
would be something like a break for him, even if only a short-term one.
“That would be welcome,” he says.
“Of course I understand the people who use the free time for an excursion to get some fresh air and the beautiful nature in the
foothills of the Alps
.
But the local population can no longer take a deep breath. "
At the weekend, reports Holz, the
hiking parking spaces
in the region were already occupied early.
“We don't really know anything like that in mid-November.
It was bad again.
I'm now in the 14th year of mayor, but I've never seen anything like it. ”It's not so much
Covid-19 *
that worries him.
But above all the
rubbish left
behind by
inconsiderate
hikers
and the wild, nowadays popular sport,
parking that is prohibited from parking
.
That too is a virus that he wants to defeat.
Not a fatal one, but an annoying one.
Tourists in the Oberland: does the day trip have to be in Corona times?
Oberammergau
Mayor Andreas Rödl (CSU) can understand wood very well.
If there had to be excursions, “it has to work”.
And they don't run like they did on the weekend, when the wild birds were parked at the Kappel Church in
Unterammergau
.
Sheet metal avalanches had
pushed
their way through the
Ammertal
.
The
Ammergau Alps
Nature Park
attracts hikers.
“It's nice here.
I can understand anyone who may come, ”says Rödl.
“But I also appeal to reason.” Does the
day trip have to be in Corona * times
?
Merkel also met with sympathy from
Tegernsee
.
“If the Chancellor recommends that you do without day trips, then there is a good reason - and you should stick to it,” says Mayor Johannes Hagn (CSU).
Corona: The police in Starnberg take tough action
In
Starnberg
, also a popular excursion destination, the police have meanwhile tightened the pace.
"The cuddling course is over," says Starnberg's police chief Bernd Matuschek.
If the
corona rules are
violated,
advertisements
will now be taken
- without discussions and "without exception," as Matuschek says.
Especially at the beginning of the
pandemic
, the officials often showed indulgence and sought a conversation in the event of violations.
“That was the right way to go at the beginning,” says Matuschek.
Many things were completely new.
In the meantime, however, the information situation regarding the
Corona regulations
is much clearer.
"Everyone knows what they are allowed to do and what not."
It
is easy to imagine
what a
ban
on
excursions
would mean
for the
metropolis of Munich
.
The
English Garden
was quite crowded at the weekend.
At the Monopteros the
rules of distance
seemed to have
completely fizzled out, and volleyball was being played on the meadow in front of it.
The mounted police patrol did not even try to warn anyone.
In the courtyard garden, boules balls flew through the air, also thrown by
risk groups
- without a
mask
or
distance
.
Some had brought their own Aperol Spritz with them.
If
Munich is
no longer allowed to go into the surrounding area, it should become even tighter in these places.
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