Outdoor pools are ready for the summer

Even if the weather doesn't suggest it, it's actually bathing time.

In the outdoor pools of the Schlierach- / Leitzach Valley you are therefore ready to open - if it weren't for the current lockdown.

The motto for the start of the summer is therefore: Incidence down, temperatures up!

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- Stable below 100 - this 7-day incidence is necessary to open the outdoor pools.

Hardly anyone can predict when this will be the case in the Miesbach district at the moment, but nobody doubts that it will be in the foreseeable future.

Accordingly, the operators are all preparing for a swift opening.

Warm outdoor pool Miesbach

Erhard Pohl, who acts as a consultant for the facility on the city council, describes the management report for the warm outdoor pool in Miesbach as follows: “There is water in it. The pool is cleaned. Everything is prepared. We are ready and waiting for the starting shot. ”Except that this time it is not the town hall that gives it, but rather the state government. Because the outdoor pools are only allowed to open when the 7-day incidence is stable below 100. "We can unlock within two or three days, but still have to wait," says Pohl, and by that he also means the conditions that the operation requires as part of the corona protective measures. “We assume that operations will run like last year.” So with mask, distance and security.

Under normal circumstances, the pool would actually have opened around May 12th, but in view of the cool weather, you didn't miss much.

"So we are only partially sad."

In any case, season ticket sales only start when the pool opens.

It costs 60 euros for adults, 20 euros for children and young people up to the age of 17 - the price is cheap even if the season is shortened, says Pohl: "After the 20th visit, you can bathe for free." And this figure is all the easier if the holiday is canceled this year due to corona.

“Last year, many visitors were therefore grateful to us that the city opened the pool, even though it was associated with quite a bit of additional costs.” This year, too, they do not want to disappoint the bathers.

And despite the new construction of the facility, no bathing season should be canceled.

"If possible, we want to have the work carried out over the winter," says Pohl.

To do this, the pool would have to close at the end of August and reopen at the beginning of June - but not this year.

The outdoor pools are also ready to go in the Tegernsee Valley.

Fischbachau warm outdoor pool

Gregor Weidner has been opening his mini golf course in Schliersee for a good two weeks.

After some back and forth and numerous phone calls, the authorities informed him that his facility should not be seen as an amusement park, but as a place for contactless individual sports.

That is why Weidner is again allowed to give out balls and clubs to his guests - as long as only one household is playing per lane.

Weidner also wants clarity for his new, second mainstay, the bistro in the Fischbachau outdoor pool.

He now at least knows from the state government that the outdoor pools in Bavaria are allowed to open to visitors from a stable incidence of less than 100, including appointment booking and mandatory testing.

But there is still a lot of uncertainty for him and his partner Manfred Nerz.

As reported, Weidner and Nerz have assumed that the warm outdoor pool will open its doors at the end of May - and that they can start their gastronomy with it.

But the slowly falling corona incidence in the Miesbach district makes planning difficult.

Neither goods nor personnel can currently be organized.

After all, the craftsmen who are currently still busy renovating the bistro can finish their work in peace.

“The scaffolding is still there,” says Weidner.

Schliersee lido

There is also hard work at the Schliersee lido. The preparations are already in full swing, says operator Tom Loch: "We have already hired our staff." There is enough to do with cleaning and setting up. Due to the corona rules, you have a week's lead time before the opening anyway. From a purely weather point of view, however, not much has been lost so far, says Loch. "That was not suitable for bathing until now."