"Healthy through the lockdown" - and that in pure luxury at Tegernsee.
An apartment house is currently advertising this.
It used to be called a vacation home, say critics.
They are not right.
In an apartment house on
Tegernsee
,
nine luxury apartments are rented
out in the
Corona
lockdown
- despite the
ban on
accommodation.
Critics say: "It used to be called a
holiday home
."
But the operator is right: all tenants live there temporarily, but not for tourist purposes.
Bad Wiessee - It sounds perfect: A retreat from the
corona pandemic
, the whole family with you, the laptop for the
home office
in
your
pocket, the forest and the
Tegernsee in
front of the door
.
And inside: pure luxury.
Box spring beds, elegant bathrooms, breakfast service, private chef, chauffeur.
And a concierge who helps at any time when the WiFi is crazy.
This is exactly what the "Luxury Apartments R6 Tegernsee" in
Bad Wiessee
offer
.
Under the motto "Healthy through the
lockdown
", the operator advertises solitude, luxury, the lowest risk of infection - and of course the longing
Tegernsee Valley.
Anyone who has 300 euros for the night (that is the cheapest offer) is included in the "temporary living" at
Tegernsee
described by the provider
and can move into the "second home in the country".
Luxury apartments at the Tegernsee: Renting in lockdown causes amazement
But wait a minute: aren't tourist trips forbidden?
Doesn't an
accommodation
ban apply
in the second lockdown of the
corona pandemic
in Germany?
Hotels, apartments, guest houses.
Actually everything to.
When the offer appears in the Facebook group “Housing market Tegernsee valley and surroundings”, exactly these questions also arise.
“I'm surprised that this can be rented at all,” writes one.
“It used to be called a vacation home”, another.
And: “They always find a loophole.
Money makes the world go round."
Tegernsee: Luxury apartments are becoming home offices
If you look at the occupancy plan for apartment 5, for example, you get the feeling that these are perfectly normal holiday apartments that are being offered there.
This apartment is occupied for one week over New Year's Eve.
To spend the New Year in a luxury home office?
“It's all right like that,” says
Christian Kausch, managing director of Tegernseer Tal Tourismus GmbH.
He is practically the chief tourism specialist at
Tegernsee
.
Business
trips
are currently
allowed, as are those with a medical background.
And those who book the luxury apartments will be the same, he is sure.
"Of course you always have to look at the individual case," says Kausch.
But in this case it doesn't look like a tourist background.
Luxury living at Tegernsee: Mayor finds word choice "awkward"
Robert Kühn sees it the same way.
The mayor of
Bad Wiessee
also assumes that the apartments will be used for business purposes, for example.
And also that the apartments are not second homes, for which tax would be due.
However, the whole thing is "misunderstood," says Kühn.
A choice of words like “second home in the country”, with the option for “wellness and a massage with an iodine-sulfur bath in the nearby thermal bath”, which actually opened during the
lockdown
, is at least “awkward” for him.
Home office in a luxury apartment: the offer on Tegernsee is suspicious
Tobias Pezolt, on the other hand,
found the idea of luxury temporary apartments in the
corona pandemic
clever.
He manages the apartment house for the operator.
They were looking for a way
to re-let
the apartments in
lockdown
.
This is how the idea of the
lockdown
second apartment came about.
Use the three exceptions that allow accommodation: health reasons (a guest is a patient in a nearby clinic, for example) or professional reasons.
And when someone visits relatives, for example.
"We had a woman as a guest who visited her parents at
Tegernsee
and stayed with us during that time." Legally, that's not a problem.
And you have, for example, traveling representatives - most recently for luxury items such as watches and jewelry - who
reside
in the
apartments
.
And also managers who
relocate
their
home office
to
Tegernsee
and then spend the nights there too.
"We asked the health department especially if it was a problem if someone from the hotspot in Munich did their home office here." No problem, they said.
At Tegernsee there are always disagreements because of the excursion traffic and the holidaymakers in the corona pandemic - sometimes the situation also escalates.
Long traffic jams and traffic chaos are the rule in the corona pandemic in the Tegernsee valley.
