The cold wave has caused the first lakes to freeze over - and triggered a rush of leisure activities.
Murnau had to pull the emergency brake on Saturday and close a lake.
Corona rules were broken in rows.
Murnau / Garmisch-Partenkirchen district
- When
Murnau's mayor Rolf Beuting
(ÖDP / Bürgerforum)
hurried
on Saturday after a hint from his
chief of public
order to the
Froschhauser See
, which is popularly simply called Froschsee, he could not believe his eyes: On the relatively small ice surface it was like a dovecote - even though it was late in the afternoon.
An estimated
100 to 200 people
cavorted on the
ice
, enjoyed the fresh winter air, went ice skating or played ice hockey.
Beuting speaks of a "large collection".
Things were so bad at the parking lot that the police had to punish 40 violations.
Corona in Upper Bavaria: Winter weather lures you outside - distance rules violated
But the
car chaos
was still the slightest problem: Many of the Froschsee visitors did not adhere to the
contact
restrictions
, which
are intended to prevent or at least contain the
spread of the corona pandemic
.
For example, according to reports, the distance rule has been broken in a row.
And that a team sport like ice hockey is actually taboo didn't interest anyone on this wonderful winter day.
“That doesn't work,” says Beuting.
“We have a complete lockdown.” And there should not be such
hotspots
- with all due understanding for the need for recreation and leisure
.
The Murnau local chief and his administration pulled the rip cord on Saturday - and imposed an
emergency
ban on
entry
.
Lakes in the Werdenfelser Land and Isar Valley suddenly became the focus: there was a hail of advertisements on the Pflegeersee
According to
Tagblatt
information, it is so far the
only closure of a lake in the district
.
This was the result of a survey among mayors and a request from the police (as of Sunday noon).
At the
weekend
it was not only pretty busy at the Froschsee, but also at the already frozen
waters in the Werdenfelser Land and Isar Valley
.
So there was at
Pflegersee
already an exploration of the law enforcement officers how the
police headquarters Upper Bavaria South
reported.
There, seven people refused to keep the distance on Saturday lunchtime - even though the officials had explicitly asked them to do so.
The result:
advertisements
rained down
.
"We always try to solve this communicatively first," says police spokesman Martin Emig.
But if the appeal to reason doesn't work, you get to feel the harshness of the law.
The Bavarian state policy also has the excursion problem in view.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen district in the Corona crisis: Mayor and police are monitoring the situation at the lakes
The mayor and the police are watching the situation in the district very closely.
There is still great hope that people will remain insightful.
And a prolonged cold spell may provide relaxation.
This could then be the case, according to the calculation, even if
larger lakes like the Staffelsee
have formed closed ice sheets and those seeking relaxation are better distributed.
But it cannot be ruled out that further closures will follow if the onslaught and thus the risk of infection become too great.
For example,
Grainau's mayor Stephan Märkl
(CSU)
wants to
discuss
the issue with his administration.
Because the situation on the
Eibsee
- the wonderfully situated mountain lake has also been frozen over since last week and is therefore a popular excursion destination - is sometimes "borderline".
Winter in Bavaria: Be careful when walking on the ice
Apart from the corona issue, everyone who gets on the ice must be
aware of
the
dangers
.
Caution is advised.
The icy idyll has many pitfalls, for example at the inlets and outlets.
Sometimes life is in danger.
Only when the ice surface is at least 15 centimeters thick in stagnant water (in streams and rivers it is even 20 centimeters) is it sustainable, warns the
German Life Saving Society
.
Incidentally, Upper Bavaria is not alone with its winter worries: In Austria, “catastrophic images” were transmitted from the ski areas.
