Starnberg: Beer gardens are allowed to open from Monday - but it's not worth it for everyone

With test, appointment and only until 10 p.m.: Many restaurateurs in the Starnberg district are ready to reopen on Monday under these conditions.

For some, it's not worth it.

District of Starnberg

- It's a fitting picture, especially on Lake Starnberg: Alexander Urban compares his business, the Tutzinger Midgardhaus, with a large steamer. "Once we get it going, but then reverse full throttle again and drop the anchors, I don't know whether the engine will survive." Press conference announced that it will open from Monday, it should stay open. “It would be a disaster if we now have to buy, produce, bring our people back and then close again shortly afterwards. Then we will soon no longer exist. "

In the Starnberg district, whose corona incidence is below 100, you can go to the beer garden, restaurant or café terrace again from next week - until 10 p.m., with a negative test, appointment and mask to the square.

The only bureaucratic reservation: the Free State still has to approve the district's application.

The condition for opening is a seven-day incidence, which remains exactly five days below 100, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Munich clarified.

This is followed by a buffer day for the announcement, on the seventh it can be opened.

The general mood among most of the hosts is positive, despite all the conditions that were not finally known yesterday.

The tenor: the main thing is to start again.

Starnberg: Beer gardens are allowed to open - Corona test only for gastro visits?

Heinz Preiß from the Landgasthof zum Brückenwirt in Percha has converted a parking lot into a catering area and is prepared for sudden rain with umbrellas and shelter. Preiß trusts that at least his regular guests will be ready to be tested beforehand. He also hopes for guests from Munich and the surrounding area. “I don't know yet whether the business is worth it,” says the landlord. It is unclear how long it can open under these conditions. Smaller card, possibly self-service: Preiss bears these considerations. But he wonders whether people can really only be tested for a visit to the beer garden and whether there is enough capacity.

Mathias Scheffel from “H'ugo's Beach Club” on the Starnberg Promenade has created the ideal conditions in this regard - with an in-house test center.

He would like to “take Sunday with me.

We scratch our hooves, ”he says.

With the existing hygiene concept, it can offer 400 instead of the usual 800 seats outside.

"We don't expect people to run over us, but we are prepared," said Scheffel.

Beer gardens in Starnberg: stopping in by appointment only - spontaneous visits are difficult

Rothtraut Falk definitely wants to reopen their “Froschgartl” on the Ammersee between Wartaweil and Aidenried, and all this according to the motto “If already, then already”. It has enough space to offer around 80 seats despite the distance. “At some point life has to go on,” she says. Falk sees the only problem in the fact that her inn is actually more of a beer garden where people spontaneously drop by on a walk or bike ride. “The cyclist wants to have a quick beer, the family with children wants to have an ice cream quickly. I also don't know how to do it with the test, ”she says. Very few customers come to the “Froschgartl” with an appointment.

Yesterday, all restaurateurs were still waiting for precise state requirements. They have known since the beginning of the pandemic that they are only informed after the public. For example, yesterday Alexander Urban from the Tutzinger Midgardhaus did not know whether “we can also offer our guests self-tests”. No decision was made yesterday in the Andechser Bräustüberl. "We are very happy that things are going in the right direction," said spokesman Martin Glaab. "But we want to guarantee maximum security." And to do this, it is necessary to wait for the guidelines and to be guided by them.

The Maisinger Seehof stays with the to-go business.

“We are a classic self-service beer garden.

There is no control over who is sitting at the table with whom, ”says landlord Michael Smolka.

But it is precisely the "take a look", the informal thing that defines a beer garden.

And that is just not compatible with tests and appointments.

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Assistance: Ada Wassmann, Christian Deutschländer