At the sewage treatment plant near the Ammer in Weilheim, a 40 meter high cell phone mast is being erected.
It should cover the district of Unterhausen and the railway line to Tutzing.
Weilheim - This will be “no optical gain” for Weilheim, stated 3rd Mayor Alfred Honisch (Greens) in the building committee: “This is a ugly lattice mast. But we can't get out of there. ”The city council committee approved the building application of the Telekom subsidiary“ Deutsche Funkturm GmbH ”for the new construction of a“ 40 meter steel lattice mast with outdoor technology ”near the Ammer with 7: 2 votes. namely in the northern area of the sewage treatment plant area. “It's no longer about the location, but only about the structural design,” said Mayor Markus Loth (BfW), trying to limit the debate right from the start. Because the building committee has already "thought intensively" about the location.In response to Telekom's request to set up a cell phone base station in Unterhausen, the 2018/2019 committee weighed up several potential locations and finally brought the one at the sewage treatment plant into play and unanimously approved it. Before that, two locations on Lake Dietlhofer and one north of the Leprosenweg industrial park were under discussion.
A Telekom representative called the location near the sewage treatment plant a “compromise” in May 2019: the cell phone base station is possible there, but the mast must be around 35 to 40 meters high. In addition to Unterhausen, part of the Weilheim-Tutzing railway line also needs to be supplied. Telekom also wants to make the masts available to other operators, as it was said at the time: After all, the construction would cost “at least a quarter of a million euros”.
The building application for a 40-meter mast has now been submitted. For higher elevations, Telekom originally applied for 30 meters, the city building authority explained, "but here in the flat area you need more height". Basically, radio masts in the outdoor area are privileged, which is why there is nothing legally speaking against the construction. Klaus Gast (CSU), however, recalled the decision in principle to keep possible routes free for a western bypass of Weilheim - which Loth countered by pointing out that it was exactly the location that the construction committee had proposed for the mobile station. Nevertheless, the mast for a bypass road would also be “quickly moved” if necessary, said Loth.
When asked by Gerd Ratter (ÖDP), Head of Building Administration Manfred Stork explained that the new mast is "not initially about 5G, but about covering current networks".
But the operator could “switch to 5G at any time, that cannot be prevented”.
Gast and Ratter finally voted against the building application, everyone else voted in favor.
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