Meeting in Penzberg: inner-city initiatives fear a new lockdown

Penzberg - The retailers in the Oberland are worried about a new corona lockdown.

That is why the action group downtown met in Penzberg.

The newly founded action group is an amalgamation of the associations and initiatives Pro Innenstadt Penzberg, Wir für Tölz, Garmischer Zentrum, ProCit Geretsried, CityPartner Munich and the Association for Location Promotion Weilheim.

They were already behind the Oberland-wide protest action "We're bleeding out!", Which had been initiated from Penzberg this year (Rundschau reported).

The association had gathered in the Penzberger Stadthalle to talk to members of the state parliament Martin Bachhuber and Harald Kühn (both CSU) and Susann Enders (free voters) about the consequences of the two past corona lockdowns for inner cities and the demands of retailers on politics to discuss.

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Discussed the situation in the inner cities in Penzberg: Representatives of the community of action and politics in the town hall.

© Pro city center

"That is really our greatest fear," said Tatjana Patermann from Pro Innenstadt about the lockdown prospects. "I would like to forego all further government subsidies if we get the guarantee that we will not have to lock up again." With this, she spoke to her colleagues from the other six cities and communities from the heart, according to a message from Pro Innenstadt -Chairman Monika Uhl. Michaela Nelhiebel from Garmischer Zentrum shakes her head when she thinks back to the spring, when the Werdenfelser Land was on a very good path in terms of incidence values. "But then the entire district had to close because we had three locally limited corona clusters at a major construction site, in the Murnau UKM and after a birthday party in Klais."

Above all, this means that we can find out from the automatic lockdown. "

Harald Kühn, member of the CSU state parliament

At the moment, no one can say with certainty what the corona situation will be like in autumn and winter, says CSU man Kühn, but one thing is certain: "We now have to find a way to achieve as much normality as possible.

And this includes, above all, that we find out from the lockdown automatism. "Landtag colleague Enders from Weilheim was relieved that" there is now consensus on all political levels and across all parties, the incidence values ​​no longer being the only one To use parameters for restrictions on public life ".

A plea for vaccination

According to CSU MP Bachhuber, it is now a matter of "working through the corona pandemic on a political level in order to avoid in future what did not go so well".

But not only politics, the population is also responsible for Bachhuber when it comes to preventing rigid cuts in public life again.

"Whatever the coming weeks and months will bring depends very much on the willingness to vaccinate," said Bachhuber

Time for something new

The fact that the two lockdowns presented the retail sector with previously unknown challenges was emphasized again and again this evening.

For many business people, however, it was also a time of “reorientation”, as Ludwig Schmid from ProCit Geretsried explained - by that he meant digitization.

"Suddenly customer and loyalty cards were introduced, and whoever did that should only have had good experiences with them."

More Sunday shopping

However, there is still a demand for an expansion of the shopping Sundays and the approval of shopping nights. Currently, only four open Sundays and public holidays are permitted in Bavaria if they take place on the occasion of markets, trade fairs or events of major national importance. “Shopping nights” are handled in a similarly restrictive manner. "We need a historical reference for this, which is usually not possible in reality," complained Patermann from Penzberg. "Within our parliamentary group, we are currently discussing a draft law that provides for four Sundays open for sale in the future without being linked to a specific occasion," said CSU man Bachhuber. Also an increase in urban development funding to make the city centers more attractive,"We will also discuss in the CSU parliamentary group," assured the constituency member from Bad Heilbrunn.