Excursion chaos in the nature reserve: Bavarian Forest National Park overrun.
While a water level at the edge of the Alps surprises you, you call for help from Miesbach - directly from Markus Söder.
Update from December 29, 6:16 p.m.:
Day tourists
literally
roll over the
excursion destinations in Bavaria
.
Parking spaces are overcrowded in many places, and some day trippers don't even get to their destination because of the extreme volume of traffic.
"It really is on fire,"
Miesbach District Administrator Olaf von Löwis
had already
alerted
Markus Söder
.
Is there now a drastic reaction from the state government?
Appeals would not have worked, so now strict
exit
restrictions are needed, demanded District Administrator von Löwis.
If injured day tourists come to the corona sufferers, it could have dire consequences in the hospitals, he warns.
The penalties are too low, but Jörg Müller, deputy head of the Bavarian Forest National Park, also complains: “It would be desirable for it to get a high level when people say: Yes, so considering
the prices,
I'm really thinking about whether I should Just so deliberately disregard rules. "
Bavarian excursion destinations overcrowded: those responsible demand tougher penalties - Hermann and the police react
However
, Müller falls on deaf ears
with
Interior Minister Hermann
.
When asked
by
Bayerischer Rundfunk
,
he replied
that the right to free enjoyment of nature applies and there are no
plans
to
impose further restrictions
, “We naturally appeal to all citizens
to keep
their
distances
and to avoid that
, even on their excursions
there are larger accumulations. "
The
police headquarters of Upper Bavaria South
responded anyway.
The "increased excursion traffic" will be controlled from now on, according to a press release.
The authority did not escape the kilometer-long traffic jams in the mountain regions.
The
Bavarian riot police
will help
carry out
the
increased controls
.
Violations will be
punished
consistently with
fines or advertisements
.
So that it doesn't get that far, the Presidium also appeals that people should at best stay at home.
Bavaria: day tourists overrun Miesbach - district administrator sends SMS to Söder
Update from December 28th, 2020, 7:55 pm
: "Dear Markus, I don't like to annoy you via SMS." This is how a message to Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder began.
The sender: The Miesbach District Administrator
Olaf von Löwis (CSU)
.
He wanted to draw attention to the avalanche of excursionists that was probably rolling again: “Day tourism is getting out of hand with us.
It really burns. "
As
Merkur.de
reports, Löwis was horrified by pictures of motorcades in the Miesbach area.
The police are already overwhelmed - he also fears that the Agatharied Clinic will be overloaded with possible injuries.
The district administrator has clear demands on Söder: The exit restrictions must be underpinned by rules.
Day trippers on the way despite Corona: Bavarian National Park speaks of a "catastrophic situation" in parking lots
First report from December 28th, 2020, 7:55 pm
: Grafenau - "In many places the situation at the parking lots can only be described with the word"
catastrophic
", says the deputy head of the Bavarian Forest National Park, Jörg Müller.
At the weekend, day trippers
literally
overran the
Bavarian Forest
.
Many visitors walked “all over the place through the core area” of the national park.
Were at the parking
escape routes
blocked.
The rangers now have an urgent request to all visitors: Only designated hiking trails should be used.
Because the suffering here are not troubled residents, but protected animals that are not at all happy about noisy people going astray: "This particularly endangers disturbance-sensitive species such as the capercaillie, which are in energy-saving mode under the winter temperatures," says Müller.
Excursion chaos despite Corona: mountain railways see themselves well equipped
Perhaps the
excursion chaos in the Bavarian Forest has
something to do with the fact that the lifts in the ski areas are still.
Here, too, at the Bavarian Mountain Railways, a large crowd was feared for Christmas.
But in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
you can breathe easy after the days off.
A spokeswoman for the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn said
the parking lots at the
Zugspitze
* were
"definitely well attended".
But the big dramas apparently did not materialize: “But there were no traffic jams or
park chaos
.
That was very far from what was feared. "
Today # Ischgl2, in a few days New Year's Eve, then # Ischgl3, then Carnival, then Easter, ... etc.
It has to be vaccinated because
very few people
understand "stay at home".
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- Allmächd Rainer 😷🏠 (@allmaechdRainer) December 28, 2020
In Austria - despite lockdown and thanks to an exemption for sports - there was chaos on the ski slopes.
Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz
has now reacted here.
Because the fears are great that there will be an "Ischgl two" and that the corona virus will spread again from ski resorts across Europe.
But Garmisch is not looking so pessimistic about the coming holidays.
Corona and the ski season: Bavarian mountain railways
So that it remains calm, the operators continue to hope for the common sense of the people.
In
Garmisch
, the parking lot remains open to visitors and cleared of snow.
The parking fees were raised for this.
For example, ski tours are also possible in principle.
"We only use signs to indicate that we do not
operate
any
safety measures," said a spokeswoman for the
Zugspitzbahn
.
Elsewhere, some mountain railway operators have opted for an alternative strategy.
The
parking spaces
at the Bergbahnen Oberstdorf Kleinwalsertal in Allgäu are
closed.
And it should stay that way.
In the Niederbayern National Park, they only want to
send out
more
rangers
to check that the rules are being
observed
.
(dpa / kat)