TSV Gernlinden urgently needs a gym.
The fact that it should be built near the Waldsee is driving citizens to the barricades.
You want the football field and recreation area to be preserved.
Some residents have now collected around 200 signatures against the project.
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The citizens' meeting asked for a second hall.
The TSV currently uses the school gym, but its capacities are exhausted.
A new building would bring relief.
However, Gerhard Forster cannot accept that the TSV and the municipality are considering the football field at Waldsee as a possible location. The square is located in the recreation area and has been used by children, young people and families for decades. “Now this football field is to be taken away from us for good, after it has been used temporarily for a number of years for living and stay containers,” complains the Gernlinden resident.
As a former active athlete, as a trainer of youth teams and trainer of the Bavarian State Sports Association, he could understand the TSV's space problem. "But it would never have occurred to me to flatten a public football field that unorganized children and young people use to demand a hall for my sports club," he says. Forster would like a more suitable location.
An area at the Strasserwinkel in Maisach was recently named as an area for a gymnasium in citizens' meetings.
For TSV chairwoman Gabriele Plutka, moving to Maisach is not an option: "Especially older people and children should have sports facilities on site." The way to Maisach is dangerous for children.
“And the footballers would be happy if they had a hall on site in winter.” Plutka considers the location at the Waldsee to be the only one possible.
"This question has been answered to 90 percent." Other locations have been checked, but not feasible.
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So far there has only been a single-field gym at the elementary school in the Maisach district.
The capacities there are no longer sufficient, which is why TSV Gernlinden wants its own hall.
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Forster describes Plutka's view that the hall would fit in at the Waldsee as grotesque: "Trees and bushes have grown into the football field for decades." A square box with the appropriate dimensions would cover it up.
In general, a hall would impair the recreational value of the recreational area at the Waldsee, he says.
Residents of the nearby old people's home and the Dominikus ring iron factory would also use the area.
Forster also fears problems with the parking lots, which would hardly be enough for sporting events.
The planned roof and facade greening is not an argument for him to build over a green area.
And proximity to the clubhouse is not necessary either: "We used to go to the sports field in summer and to a hall at another location in winter."
Forster opposes a relocation of the football field (see box) that the community is considering.
After all, the place is used by bathers of the Waldsee to play football in summer.
You can't do that on the playground or lawn.
For Forster, the recreation area and the football field are related.
The Gernlindener initiated a collection of signatures against the project.
In conversation with citizens, he saw anger because of the increasing development in the community, he says.
And the response to his campaign was great: "I thought I would get ten or twelve signatures together." In the meantime, however, almost 200 Gernlinden residents have signed.
The list is to be handed over to the mayor soon.
This is what the Mayor of Maisach says
When asked about the massive resistance from local residents, Maisach's mayor Hans Seidl (CSU) said, “I definitely understand the individual reactions.” Changes are usually a bit critical.
However, the conditions around the forest lake are regulated by a 40-year-old development plan, which is the basis for what is permissible in future developments.
"There must be no changes that contradict the stipulations," he says.
Apparently, a sports hall does not do this.
In any case, the local council has earmarked expenditures for such a building in 2023, according to Seidl.
The town hall chief does not share fears that there will be parking problems: “Football games are major events.
That has nothing to do with the daily need for parking spaces during normal hall operation. ”In addition, the district office's parking space requirements would be met.
Seidl thinks the location is well suited due to its proximity to the TSV sports field.
The area belongs to the municipality, which is an advantage: Necessary purchase of land elsewhere would make a new building unaffordable.
Local replacement for the football field has already been initiated, including through inquiries from the surrounding landowners.
Seidl takes the fact that the project has been rejected by some citizens seriously: the administration and the municipal council will have to “deal intensively and objectively with the issue in order to then weigh up and decide”.
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