“It was the very highest railway,” says Mayor Andreas Rödl.
The tartan track on the Oberammergau sports grounds urgently needed to be repaired.
That has now happened.
But there are other construction sites.
Oberammergau - it was about ten tons, says Peter Pest. Ten tons of material had to be disposed of. The employee at the Oberammergau building department still can't quite believe it. Nobody in the community expected this amount. The company in charge almost “no longer lifts the container”. It worked - and parts of the TSV sports grounds went on trips. Without return ticket.
The community has started the renovation of the tartan track.
She put it off for four or five years.
Time and again it has been delayed for various reasons.
Club chairman Herbert Schmidt remembers well, but not with pleasure.
Once the commissioned company was no longer available after the tender.
Another time there was a change of staff in the clerks in the town hall, whereupon time passed again.
Or the commune ran out of money.
TSV boss repeatedly points out problems to the community
That is not available in abundance now either. On the contrary. The church is known to have to turn over every penny twice. But she had to react now. “It was the highest railway,” admits Mayor Andreas Rödl (CSU). He speaks of sinks that were dangerous for the athletes. The career - ailing. Really ailing. “It was pointed out that we had to make it from scratch.” This chalice passed the community, the renovation did not.
Schmidt not only once pointed out to the municipality that the conditions at the TSV site were in need of improvement.
Asked the question where the school does sports when the system goes down the drain.
Showed those responsible the external presentation of tourism when the site was rotting.
"I put my finger in the wound long enough," says the club boss.
He received criticism from the athletes from time to time.
The tartan track was still sufficient for training, and there were no competitions.
“That's why we didn't exert total pressure,” says Schmidt.
Cracks in the web, lowered floor
The community would have preferred to start during the corona lockdown, but at that time the companies were too busy. So the work now fell into the summer vacation. They were divided into several steps. Pest first names the synthetic surface. Meanwhile he was mossy. Dark. And smooth when wet. The entire system - it measures 4700 square meters - first had to be cleaned. Then the damaged areas were determined. The ground, for example, peeled away from the asphalt below. Covering in the order of a total of 810 square meters was replaced. In addition, the workers cut out 20-meter-wide patches with cracks and added them again. A total of 375 square meters. The list of defects also included the height difference of the tartan track. It was partially lowered by up to ten centimeters and had to be leveled.“The athletes could run up and down,” jokes Pest.
In the coming days he would like to have a look at the new coating.
Check if it is ok.
Then the final spurt begins.
The tartan track needs new lines - at over 4000 meters.
The drainage channels are also being given new covers.
It's about 400, says Pest.
"It works like hell." If the weather does play along after all the rainy days, he expects that the measure will be completed in 14 days.
Further planning
Pest is satisfied with the result - and the finances.
“We are in line,” he says.
The 160,000 euros that were set in the budget will probably only be exceeded slightly.
In this context, he again reminds of the large amount of material to be disposed of.
According to him, one tonne of mixed construction waste would cost around 385 euros.
That alone adds up to almost 4,000 euros for the community.
Although the construction site is nearing its end, Oberammergau's mayor knows that there are more tasks to be done in the stadium.
"We are already beyond retro," emphasizes Rödl and mentions the old benches.
In this regard, he is still putting the TSV off.
"We have to do that when the budget is more solid."
Heater is 40 years old
Instead, the municipality is getting involved in other planning.
The gym comes into focus.
Above all their heating.
The town hall chief refrains from exchanging them one-to-one.
A new copy makes no sense "if we blow a third of the energy out through the roof".
That is why Rödl would like to take a close look at the hall as a whole, or hire an engineer for it.
He is interested in an energy saving concept.
He is also already in talks with Ammer-Loisach-Energie about solar panels.
Chairman Schmidt immediately signs that there is a need for action.
Some tiles, for example, are still the initial equipment.
So around 40 years old.
When it comes to heating, he currently only hopes for one thing: that it will hold out for a while.
"Otherwise," emphasizes the TSV boss, "it will be difficult."