Many Murnau businessmen have had enough.
In a fire letter, Guntram Gattner, on behalf of the Association for Economic Development, laments the "increasing uncertainty and, above all, injustice" with regard to the restrictions to combat the corona pandemic.
In the meantime, innkeepers in Ohlstadt show their displeasure in an impressive way.
Guntram Gattner from the Murnau Economic Development Association has sent a fire letter to Prime Minister Söder.
In it he complains about "increasing uncertainty and above all injustice" with regard to the restrictions to combat the pandemic.
In Ohlstadt, landlords have symbolically placed a skeleton in front of their restaurant.
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Murnau / Ohlstadt
- Guntram Gattner doesn't have much hope that his writing will bring anything.
“I don't know whether it will be read at all.” The chairman of the Murnau Association for Economic Development has written a fire letter.
"We are small, but many," is the subject of the email, which was sent to Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), several members of the state parliament and District Administrator Anton Speer (free voters).
Corona lockdown in Murnau: Business people write fire letters to Söder
The timing is not accidental.
Today, Wednesday, the country leaders are meeting with the Chancellor for a video conference.
It is about important issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reason for the fire letter is "the increasing uncertainty and, above all, the injustice in the handling of the restrictions to combat the corona pandemic".
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Guntram Gattner heads the business development association.
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It goes on to say: "We are experiencing in our operations (specialist retailers in the areas of fashion and clothing, watches and jewelry, books, hotels and restaurants, hairdressers, and so on) that the restrictions are increasingly benefiting the large full-range chains."
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There are no obvious access restrictions, instead an expansion of the range, lax compliance with the mask requirement and, in particular, non-compliance with distance rules, not to mention controls.
"Life there is like it was in the best pre-Corona times," Gattner complains.
Small areas would be disproportionately regulated, large areas would ultimately be supported (also financially).
"The owner-managed businesses can only draw on their reserves to be bought or 'taken care of' by their large-scale competitors."
"We also employ people who we don't just want to fire"
The local businesses are run by committed people in a future-oriented manner.
However, they should now experience that the funds that have been announced over and over again do not flow or flow very slowly.
Above all, however, the businesses have to learn that politics at all levels concentrate on the so-called big players, whose concepts are nonetheless not promising.
Gattner refers to Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof.
“We also employ people who we don't just want to lay off,” the bookseller continues.
"We mainly shape the smaller cities and towns, we are interested in them because we live there, we pursue an active economic policy within the scope of our possibilities for our places." The bookseller told the daily newspaper that he feared that the inner cities would continue to die out .
Corona fire letter to Söder: Merchants' reserves are melting - "We see that appeals do not help anything"
Söder can also read the following in the letter: “We have taken precautions, do not want to give up, we have organized delivery services, show solidarity, have implemented hygiene concepts, but have to watch as fixed costs melt our reserves, we see that appeals do not help at all . "
And further: “So far you have had supporters in us, now we are wavering in view of the fact that you see us as superfluous businesses - there is no unbureaucratic help!
- and, at the same time, further digitization, while at the same time failing to do so, call for suitable framework concepts, such as the completely failed broadband supply, from which everyone could benefit. "
But where does the money go? Gattner asks - and gives the answer himself: "300 million euros to the automotive industry in Bavaria" because it has not got its own tasks under control.
"Now 460 million euros in an outdated department store group, which is definitely not decisive for the attractiveness of a city center." Whether the fire letter will have any effect remains to be seen.
In any case, the members are "quite annoyed," says Gattner.
"There is a lack of prospects."
Corona lockdown in Murnau: symbolic skeleton in front of the inn door
The mood among the operators of the Glockenstüberl on Hauptstrasse in Ohlstadt is similar.
“It's actually just annoying,” says landlady Cornelia Feierabend.
To express their displeasure, they symbolically put a skeleton in front of the door a few days ago.
Next to it is a board with the inscription "We would have liked to serve him".
The rickety fellow even has a name: Casimir.
Cornelia Feierabend and her husband David haven't lost their sense of humor yet.
The Glockenstüberl has been closed for corona since November.
A delivery and collection service is offered on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
It goes “like that, sometimes like that,” says Cornelia Feierabend.
But you have many loyal guests.
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The state aid came "very slowly".
"If we hadn't had something on our side, we would no longer be solvent," says the landlady.
A part-time permanent employee is on duty on the weekends.
However, the innkeepers cannot employ all of their 450 euros.
With the Gerspach jeweler, one of the oldest shops in Garmisch's pedestrian zone will close on February 15th.
A step that is extremely difficult for owner Ursula Höger.
(By Roland Lory)