“Brain slipped in the calves”: residents desperate because of the crowds of day trippers at Lake Starnberg

The east bank on Lake Starnberg is a popular destination.

The mass of day trippers sometimes causes problems, as a local resident criticized our newspaper.

• Numerous day-trippers take advantage of beautiful November weekends

• Ambacher reports on precarious situations on the east bank of Lake Starnberg

• Mayor: Münsing is developing into a “hotspot” because of its proximity to Munich.

Ammerland / Ambach

- Not only Walchensee, Herzogstand, Brauneck or Blomberg attracted

thousands of day trippers on

the most recent beautiful

.

They also increased on the east bank of

and sometimes caused problems.

The

has now turned to the Starnberger Merkur - with an exemplary description of the conditions over a weekend.

The Seestrasse between Ambach and Ammerland has become a

Bendixen said indignantly.

He and his family witnessed a cyclist trying to use a gap between pedestrians and a fence without reducing his speed.

When he suddenly saw a girl about three years old on a children's bike, the biker could no longer avoid falling.

"Situations like this are repeated over and over there," says the man from Ambach.

"You get the impression that some cyclists have had their brains migrated from their heads to their calves".

Oliver Bendixen would like more surveillance by the police, which could at least have a “deterrent effect”.

Onslaught of day trippers because of Corona at Lake Starnberg: the police are in close contact with the district office

Andreas Czerweny, head of the

responsible

for

is familiar with the location on the east bank.

would go to Lake Starnberg on sunny days, often directly by bike.

After all, the circuit around the lake is advertised everywhere as being particularly attractive.

He was only there on Tuesday afternoon, reports Czerweny.

"Yes, it is correct: There are too many people in a confined space here." Walkers, joggers, inline skaters, cyclists, motorists with a sea road permit, parcel services - everything crowd the narrow county road, from spring to late autumn .

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But - and people never wanted to hear that - according to accident statistics, hardly anything happened anyway.

Czerweny quotes from the report from 2020: Cyclists fell twice without outside interference, once a cyclist fell after a lady crossed the street he saw too late.

Once a woman's car ran over the foot.

He does not want to downplay the accidents, emphasizes Czerweny, but in total there are few.

He also immediately adds: "I know, now the outcry comes: Yes, something bad has to happen first?" Of course not.

But the police could not show any more than a presence and appeal to recreational athletes to be considerate.

Violations of the traffic rules would of course be punished.

The police chief does not believe in prohibitions or signs.

He is in lively exchange with the district office as the responsible authority and also with Münsing's mayor Michael Grasl.

Mayors of communities on the edge of the Alps join forces

Like Bendixen, the latter speaks “almost of a miracle that nothing serious has happened yet”.

In his opinion, excursion traffic will “intensify extremely” in the coming months, maybe years, due to the corona pandemic.

Münsing is developing into a "hotspot" because of its proximity to Munich.

All local recreation destinations suffered from the rush - from the district via Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the Berchtesgadener Land.

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The Bavarian Community Day decided to do something about it, reports Grasl.

The initiative comes from Berchtesgaden's mayor Franz Rasp.

The district administrators will soon be talking about possible solutions in a video conference with the working title “Rush to the edge of the Alps - Bavarian Alpine communities come together”.

For Bad Tölz-Wolf-ratshausen, the deputy district administrator and mayor of Kochel, Thomas Holz, will take part.

Münsing's town hall chief can, among other things, imagine a digital guidance system.

For example, a smartphone app could alert people that all parking spaces at the Ambach recreation area are occupied.

According to Grasl, the tourism associations would also reject the current rush, known in new German as "overtourism", says Grasl.

At the moment it has nothing to do with “gentle tourism”, which has always been desired in Münsing.

Tanja Lühr

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