Corona am Starnberger See: Lawyer takes to court because of blocking the footbridges - "Measure does not help"

The footbridges in the Starnberg district are closed because it is tight there on warm days.

A lawyer no longer wants to be offered this - and takes his client to court.

District - The footbridges on the lakes in the Starnberg district, which have been closed for a good two months, are now a case for the administrative court.

The Starnberg lawyer Hans-Peter Tauche has submitted an application for an interim order on behalf of a client.

In it he calls for the barriers to be removed from the jetties on Lake Starnberg, which are accessible from public land.

In particular, he leads the jetties at Undosa and at Steininger Badegelände in Starnberg.

Footbridges on Lake Starnberg closed: Client has to swim every day - "Considerable stress and risk of injury"

Tauche had already contacted District Administrator Stefan Frey at the beginning of March (we reported). Since nothing has changed in the situation since then, "we have decided to take legal action against the measure," the lawyer explains to the Starnberger Merkur. His client swims every day and - since the stairs on the jetties can no longer be reached - "laboriously wade from the bank into the lake, which is a considerable burden and risk of injury, especially at the low temperatures."

Regardless of the individual case, Tauche generally sees no need to block the jetties in the course of fighting the pandemic.

Leading aerosol researchers in Germany have declared that infection with the corona virus outdoors is extremely rare, says Tauche and describes the measure as pointless.

Instead of sitting on the jetties, people would now just sit elsewhere on the lakeshore.

The blocking also had no positive effect on the seven-day incidence.

“Nobody can understand why the Starnberg district is burdening its citizens with measures that are obviously of no use”, wrote Tauche in an email to District Administrator Frey.

Starnberg: Lawyer takes Corona measures to court - District Administrator emphasizes "Footbridges are not our most urgent problem"

In the conversation with the Starnberg Mercury he shows himself calm.

“We will comment on the application.

The walkways are currently not our most pressing problem, ”says Frey - and does not move from his position.

As long as the third wave of the pandemic is not over, the blocking of the walkways will not change, he explains.

When the weather was nice, the jetties were so full at the beginning of the year that it was hardly possible to get through and the distance rules could not have been adhered to.

This situation should be prevented in the current situation.

Frey considers it “problematic” to make a mask requirement for the footbridges "problematic" - also against the background of enforceability.

"Emotionally, this may be an encroachment on fundamental rights," says the district administrator, but at the same time points out that the recreational areas by the lakes are still accessible to everyone.

Frey did not want to say yesterday how long the barriers will continue to apply.

However, he assumes that the situation will “relax by the summer” overall.

Meanwhile, attorney Tauche is hoping for a decision by the court within the next two weeks.  

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