The municipal council in Eschenlohe rejects the district's application for the Unesco World Heritage Site after twelve meetings in five months.
Votum should reach the district office with the force of a Molotov cocktail.
Eschenlohe
- you don't feel like it anymore.
Tired of talking about a topic where everything seems to have been said for a long time.
Eschenloh's municipal councils have served twelve meetings in five months.
As many as normal in a whole year.
Not infrequently they dealt with the district's request to impose the Unesco World Heritage Seal on the cultural landscape.
The Eschenloher's patience has now been used up.
Local councilor Klemens Jais (Bavarian Party), the eldest member of the committee, channeled their will in a plea, at the end of which he put the seminal sentence: "Let us make a resolution that once and for all there is a Ruah."
Municipality of Eschenlohe asks the district office to "give up and end the application immediately"
The district office in Garmisch-Partenkirchen should reach the vote with the force of a Molotov cocktail: Eschenlohe not only rejects the application, she withdraws all areas and sends something like a Unesco resolution to the district administrator. In it, the municipality asks - with maximum clarity - the district “to immediately abandon and end the preparation and further pursuit of the application in the entire area of the municipality”. Translated: Eschenlohe, its citizens and their representatives no longer want to hear about the Unesco World Heritage Site. In the district office, the news is likely to have caused a lot of excitement.
District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters) was not available for comment on Friday. They are not naturally rebels in Eschenlohe. They were made that way. At the beginning, in 2020, you could almost still speak of harmony when the pasture club and community sat together in front of a map and “haggled and negotiated” over areas, says Mayor Anton Kölbl (CSU). A year and a half later, the mood has turned. In a recent anonymous vote, which the mayor allowed the local farmers, it emerged that not a single one of the 21 affected farmers who took part voted for an application. Community chief Kölbl reports of a "whole pack" of complaints from his citizens that are piling up in the town hall. How did it happen that the mood of a place changed so quickly?
"I think they wanted to go through with it - with not entirely democratic means."
Klemens Jais, Bavarian Party Councilor
Basically, it is enough to speak to Klemens Jais, who has been on the local council for 16 years and in this case something like the voice of the people. "I think they wanted to go through with it - with not entirely democratic means." That is how harshly the representative of the Bavarian party put it. He referred to the principle of voluntariness with which the district initially advertised his initiative. But also in Eschenlohe they know of private owners who would like to remove their properties from the application area, but are no longer able to do so. A considerable part of the trust was lost when the representatives found out about the secret actions of the Lower Nature Conservation Authority and the forest. The authorities unauthorizedly deleted an area on Simetsberg from the documents, although the municipality explicitly wanted to include this in the application.That happened “behind our backs”, says Mayor Kölbl. "No syllable, no contact" was given by the district office. "There is absolutely no basis of trust with the authorities any more," says Anton Schönach (CSU). Colleague Jais asked: “Where is there a certain honesty?” He and several people in the town had the impression that the district wanted to “force the application into the race”.
Jais City Council speaks of "false facts"
Looking at the circle's arguments, Jais spoke of "false facts."
The special seal neither guarantees state or European subsidies, nor does it allow shooting the wolf or preserving tethering.
“Unesco doesn't help at all if, for example, the dairy no longer takes the milk from tethering,” says the mayor, who heard “the strangest arguments”.
Only on one point, said Kölbl smugly, everyone in town agreed: “We promote mass tourism.” Thomas Oswald (Free Voters) distributed the distillate from more than an hour's debate with his short message: “I've got it made easy and asked: What are the advantages? I couldn't think of any. ”Before the vote, Mayor Kölbl asked the local council pro forma to vote in favor of the application at the request of the district administrator. But nobody complied with this request. After all, representative democracy also means, on a small scale, representing your village, Kölbl had already explained in his foreword. Jais transferred this principle to Eschenlohe: "The citizen no longer played along - and we are responsible for them."