Warngau sat on dry land all summer 2020: The bathing pond in Osterwarngau was closed due to Corona - that caused frustration.
This year nothing should stand in the way of bathing fun: the pool has been filled since yesterday.
Osterwarngau
- The summer mood in 2020 was clouded in Warngau: Not only that Corona thwarted all festivals and many travel plans. The bathing pond in Osterwarngau also remained empty, and the frustration was deep. Also because not everyone could understand the decision: Because of the Corona hygiene requirements, the Warngau community was forced to prohibit any use of the swimming pond, to which there is neither supervision nor regulated access. Volunteers who wanted to take care of the supervision had reported. But when it was clear how high the effort would actually be, they too waved it off, says Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber looking back. The congregation was unable to open the bath and take care of it. "Last year we didn't know anything," says the town hall chief,who likes to do a lap in the pool himself.
In the second Corona summer, the signs are the same.
But the authorities' point of view has changed with the experience of the pandemic over the past year and a half.
The health department has given the community the green light to fill the pond, Thurnhuber announced: It is no longer viewed as a regular hot or outdoor pool with regulated access, but as public water that is freely accessible like a lake or river.
With one decisive consequence: "The responsibility lies with the users," explains Thurnhuber.
The basin is currently being filled
He hopes that all visitors behave sensibly. According to Thurnhuber, there is no fixed number of how many sun worshipers and water rats are allowed to be on site at the same time. Here, too, common sense has to work: If the distance rules cannot be adhered to, there are too many users. "If someone thinks that it is not legal, they have to call the police," explains the mayor, but hopes that it will not come to that. "At the lake, nobody counts how many visitors there are."
Now only one thing stands in the way of bathing pleasure: an almost empty pool. Since Monday morning it has been called water march. The Osterwarngau water procurement association fills the approximately 35 meter long and 18 meter wide basin. Several days pass before it is fully filled with around 1500 cubic meters of water. Most of the water is supplied in batches. On the one hand, so as not to exhaust the capacities of the drinking water supply. On the other hand, because the water needs time to warm up anyway, because it bubbles into the unheated pool at a temperature of six degrees, says Thurnhuber. So a little patience is still required. At the weekend, he hopes, it might be enough to splash around: "That should be enough for the whole foot, not just for the big toe," says the town hall chief and laughs.
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