Visitor magnet in lockdown: garbage problem on Berg is coming to a head - "Currently very severe"

There has always been rubbish on the Hohen Peißenberg, but the problem has worsened since the corona pandemic.

Recently, a local council who lives on the mountain and his family picked up a large pile of rubbish.

Photos of the garbage dump were shown in the local council.

Hohenpeißenberg - "When I was recently in the forest, I saw lots of yellow, green, blue and red spots there and thought I'd clean up," said Franz Höfler at the latest meeting of the Hohenpeißenberg municipal council on Wednesday.

"Otherwise I'll have that in the feed at some point."

Mountains of rubbish on the Hohen Peißenberg: Family collects rubbish

Höfler is a farmer and runs one of the farms on the Hohe Peißenberg.

His family helped him.

On that Saturday afternoon, the Höflers collected rubbish for an hour and a half and gathered a considerable pile of rubbish during this time.

“It all gets stuck in the forest,” says the farmer.

He and his family have brought together lots of bottles, lots of packaging for muesli bars, sweets, beverage cans and plastic bags.

He suspects that sometimes it is not at all intentional for the wind to carry the packaging away, but there is so much rubbish in the forest and on the meadows on the Hohen Peißenberg that there must be many visitors who simply leave the packaging behind or in the Throw landscape.

He photographed the mountain of rubbish that he and his family gathered in an hour and a half and asked Mayor Thomas Dorsch to show the picture at the council meeting.

Garbage problem on the Hohen Peißenberg: residents go to collect garbage

"It's currently very intense on the mountain," said the mayor at the meeting.

The employees of the municipal building yard are instructed to empty the garbage cans on the Hohen Peißenberg twice as often as before, but there is always a lot of garbage lying around.

He praised the commitment of Höfler, who had not been a garbage collector for the first time.

“If there weren't some fellow citizens who regularly collect garbage on the mountain and in the village, the building yard wouldn't be able to do it,” said Dorsch and thanked for this support: “There are many who help and dispose of the garbage. "

Excursion destination in corona lockdown: garbage problem on Hohen Peißenberg is coming to a head

For some time now, the garbage on the Hoher Peißenberg has been rampant.

In the Corona period, the mountain had become even more of a visitor magnet than it already was, and this also worsened the garbage problem.

That does not only affect the Hohen Peißenberg but also the place: "What ends up for rubbish at the residents of the main street is unlikely," said the mayor: "They drive through the place and throw the dirt out of the window."

And garbage is not the only problem: A group recently left a trail of devastation through Hohenpeißenberg.

"They obviously came by train," said Dorsch, because their trail can be easily followed based on the destruction.

"They tore out the snow signs in Zugspitzstrasse, on to Schächen, where they tore out letters." Then freshly planted trees on the Schächen site were removed before the group drove home again.

Corona lockdown in Hohenpeißenberg: group of excursionists leaves trail of devastation

The municipality has not filed a complaint because experience has shown that this usually does not help.

Dorsch appealed to citizens to have the courage to speak to those who do such things and to say that such things are not possible.

Councilor Hermann Summer suggested that a Ramadama should be held in the village again in spring or summer, in which children and young people should also take part.

“That's a good idea,” said the mayor.

Such a clean-up campaign took place regularly except last year, when it had to be canceled due to Corona.

"As soon as it works again, we'll do it again."

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“It's all very unfortunate and annoying.

And it is detrimental to the general public, ”said Dorsch.

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(By Kathrin Hauser)