The Environment and Agriculture Committee of the district council says yes and thus, after an hour and a half debate, is clearly in favor of an application for a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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- Yes, the withdrawal of the Eschenlohe community has left a dent in the Unesco application.
No, the district's project has not yet died as a result.
In fact, the project has taken the next hurdle.
The Environment and Agriculture Committee of the district council voted with an ordinary majority (11: 3 votes) for each candidacy, even if this decision is not binding but only a recommendation.
The debate took place for an hour and a half.
The most important scenes.
The plea
The crowd of advocates opened the verbal duel. The most impressive plea - urgent as well as conciliatory - was made by Klaus Solleder, district chairman of the farmers' association. He summarized what his profession, according to his own opinion, for decades directed by Brussels and Berlin with conditions, hoped from the Unesco seal: Recognition and at least a small lever, even if he himself cannot say whether this will work the cogs let big politics spin. Solleder is about responsibility for his clientele, the small-scale agriculture in the area. “I don't want to be accused of not having tried everything,” he emphasized. "We need every chance." Various points (prohibition of combined farming, designation of further protected areas) were deliberately included in the dossier as red lines.If they are exceeded, they endanger the world heritage status. “That would be an aid for us.” Most recently, he appealed for unity - regardless of the vote of the district council and later Unesco. He wished that “everyone would stick together”.
Utzschneider vs. Lödermann
She spoke of “false suspicions”, of “distrust”, of “totally bad and negative climate”, of a “dispute that has suddenly broken out on the home straight”. Tessy Lödermann, politician of the Greens, third district administrator and proponent of the application, regrets what is going on around the process. However - what an ugly irony - the rift that some members of the committee identify in the population was revealed in a small dispute between Lödermann and CSU representative Rudolf Utzschneider from Murnau. The chief critic mocked a statement by the Bund Naturschutz (we reported), which had apparently been withheld from the councils, as well as the image of agriculture that some colleagues drew, according to the motto: “Here the world is in order and everywhere different bad.“At this remark, Lödermann intervened verbally. The Murnauer countered immediately. “I don't interfere with you either. It's called decency. ”Then he repeated one of his core arguments: The dossier was almost exclusively about land and only subordinated to local agriculture.
The request to Eschenlohe
This request, which Dr.
Sigrid Meierhofer (SPD) addressed Anton Kölbl and the entire village of Eschenlohe.
She dares to speak to Toni directly.
Whether he could imagine writing something like a “letter of intent”, a declaration of intent without any legal obligation.
With the content that the village could possibly imagine taking part in the course of the application.
CSU representative Kölbl refused.
Eschenlohe examined the entire package from all sides.
"This is not for us."
The bridge builder
Christian Hornsteiner, CSU Mayor of Farchant, played the scales. On the one hand, he questioned the specific benefits of the seal, on the other hand, agriculture is very important to him. He says: "In the current situation there can only be losers." He pleaded for more time, requested that the vote in the committee be postponed until all congregations have positioned themselves. "The final documents are not yet available." This approach displeased District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters), who is pushing for a final decision in the district assembly on July 23. “If we adjourn again, agriculture will no longer take part. Then it died naturally. "
The committee voted 9-5 against a delay. In the decisive vote, Christian Hornsteiner supported the district's Unesco candidacy. Only Utzschneider, Kölbl and Albert Grasegger from the Bavarian Party rejected them.