A wedding celebration on the meadow in front of a church could have expensive consequences for the newlyweds: They face a fine of up to 5000 euros for violating the Corona rules.
Update from April 19, 3:50 p.m.: It
is well known that weddings are expensive.
The good food, the wedding band, the decoration - something can come together.
However, it is rather unusual that it is notices of fines that drive up the costs of starting the future together.
But this could be the case with the couple who said yes on Saturday in the Bernried Church.
After the police broke up a get-together in front of the church, the Weilheim-Schongau district office is now checking which fines are due for those involved.
Corona: After a wedding with 100 people - District Office clarifies "We didn't do anything wrong"
As reported, around 100 visitors attended the wedding. They also attended the church wedding. No approval was required for the ceremony itself, confirms Erika Breu from the district office's press office. "Church services can be held." The parish office only has to approve the hygiene concept. That happened in Bernried, assures Mesner Helmut Schindler. “We didn't do anything wrong,” he is convinced. "The police also looked at it on site."
Before the wedding, all those involved had themselves tested for the corona virus.
“The acolytes too,” says Schindler.
In addition, there was a seating arrangement in which it was ensured that households sat together and otherwise the distance was maintained.
Many families and around 15 to 20 children were among the guests.
"That's why we were able to bring 100 people in at all."
Wedding in lockdown: celebrants do not keep their distance and do not wear masks
The wedding had been planned for a long time. The 31-year-old groom and the 30-year-old bride, who are not from Bernried, canceled the appointment last year. This year, however, there was a certain time constraint: The St. Martin Church will be renovated from this summer. Then a wedding of this magnitude would no longer have been possible in the village. And so the couple wanted to stick to the date this time - other weddings, on the other hand, canceled their weddings this year as well. The event on Saturday “was the last wedding in the church before the renovation,” says Schindler.
That this has consequences is not due to the ceremony in St. Martin, but to what happened afterwards.
According to the police report, there were tables and a buffet in a meadow.
Some of the visitors did not keep their distances and did not wear masks.
A witness gave the police a hint, which then broke up the celebration with several patrol cars - but most of the guests were no longer there.
However, the celebration did not take place in the courtyard of the monastery, as the police had reported at the weekend - but on a meadow directly in front of the church.
After the wedding celebration in front of the church: A fine of up to 5000 euros could be due
A list of all wedding guests is available to the officials. The district office examines the consequences of the whole thing. “The event was not advertised for us,” says Breu. Therefore, a fine could be payable. The decisive factor for the level of the penalty is whether someone has consciously ignored the rules. According to Breu, there is a fine of 5,000 euros for organizers in the event of deliberate action; in the event of negligence, it would be 2,500 euros. For guests, 500 or 250 euros would be due.
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Update from April 19:
The phone has been ringing at the Mission Benedictine Sisters since the news about the wedding.
Because the police had reported that the celebration had taken place after the wedding in the courtyard of the monastery.
According to Sister Mechthild Hommel, this is not true.
“The whole thing was on a meadow in front of the church,” she says - sacristan Helmut Schindler confirms that. He was present at the wedding ceremony in the church, where there was a comprehensive hygiene concept.
“We didn't do anything wrong,” says Schindler.
"I can't comment on what happened outside then."
Original article dated April 18
Penzberg / Bernried
- There were two major operations on Saturday in the district due to clear corona violations.
Around 100 people had gathered on the Penzberger Stadtplatz on Saturday evening around 8 p.m.
A 37-year-old man was arrested;
he had thrown a bottle at the police officers who were trying to break up the illegal meeting.
In the afternoon, the Penzberg police station, with the support of several patrol car crews, broke up a wedding ceremony in the Bernried monastery courtyard.
Despite Corona: 100 people celebrate with a wedding buffet in the monastery courtyard
According to the press report of the police headquarters of Upper Bavaria South, the 100 participants at the wedding, according to the guest list, had already left the celebration by this time. They are known by name to the police. After the church wedding of the 31-year-old groom and the 30-year-old bride, the wedding party met at tables in the courtyard of the monastery grounds, a buffet was set up. "Clearances are said not to have been observed and face-to-face masks were sometimes not worn," said the police, who had moved out after being informed. The exemption from the District Office required by the Bavarian Infection Protection Measures Ordinance for such an event was not available. "The regulation saysthat a wedding party should only include the family members of the closest family circle in addition to the witnesses ”, explains the police headquarters. PI Penzberg will now submit the reports to the district office in accordance with the Infection Protection Act.
It was used on Saturday evening on the Penzberger Stadtplatz after several reports from the population.
At around 8 p.m., the police found a gathering of around 100 people there, according to the press report: “Most of them did not keep their distance, nor did they wear a mouth and nose cover.” It had “no signs or indications of any Assembly events according to the right of assembly ”.
Attempts by the police to contact the people were ignored.
Therefore, the officials called several times with loudspeaker announcements to leave the place.
Corona: 20 people involved in Penzberg ignored instructions from the police
Most of those involved complied with this request, but around 20 gathered and stayed close.
"After the street in question was blocked and another loudspeaker announcement was made with the request to comply with the infection control requirements and to leave the location, a bottle was thrown out of the group in the direction of the police officers," reported the police.
Nobody was hit, but the bottle thrower was arrested.
The 37-year-old “severely drunk” spent the night in police custody.
He now has to answer for the assault and the attempted dangerous bodily harm.
In addition, he and "several other people" were reported according to the Infection Protection Act.
Corona parties in Bavaria: private parties in Weilheim, Huglfing and Altenstadt dissolved
The police also intervened at three other locations in the district at the weekend. On Friday evening, five people had gathered at a square in Weilheim over beer and spirits, without wearing masks or keeping their distance - which resulted in dismissals and ads. After a tip-off, the police found a total of ten people at a private party in Huglfing at around 11 p.m. on Friday; all those involved were reported in accordance with the Infection Protection Act. Eight young locals finally sat together on Sunday night, shortly after midnight, in the room of a youth facility in Altenstadt and drank alcohol. A patrol car crew from the Schongau police station ended the meeting and filed charges against all eight.
Bavaria continues to have a firm grip on the corona virus.
You can find out about all current developments in the Free State here in our current Corona ticker.
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