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Poor Tölzer, even poorer Wolfratshauser: 50 years of rural district reform

2021-09-28T01:45:50.186Z


Those were the days when in the Free State, which was still completely dominated by the CSU, battle cries like “Streibl go to the Deibl!” And “We won't allow ourselves to be pummeled!” Were chanted by angry citizens. And why? Because they should give up their independence and their district should be led "to the slaughter", as the Wolfratshauser Isar-Loisachbote headlined.


Those were the days when in the Free State, which was still completely dominated by the CSU, battle cries like “Streibl go to the Deibl!” And “We won't allow ourselves to be pummeled!” Were chanted by angry citizens.

And why?

Because they should give up their independence and their district should be led "to the slaughter", as the Wolfratshauser Isar-Loisachbote headlined.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

- That was exactly 50 years ago.

The administrative district reform did not come into force until July 1, 1972, but the struggles and, above all, the major decisions that led to today's Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, all fell in 1970 and 1971. It is worth looking back and understanding some of the surprising twists and turns .

Since the end of the 1960s, the Bavarian state government and Interior Minister Bruno Merk had been planning a regional reform in order to transform communities, towns and districts into larger, more efficient and - of course - cheaper administrative units.

This was achieved against tremendous resistance from citizens who feared for their identity and independence.

The auditions began in the Bad Tölz district (today's Südlandkreis) as early as the summer of 1970. For example, the citizens of the communities Unterfischbach, Oberfischbach and Unterbuchen, which had previously been independent, discussed merging into one large community.

"At best, there is a marriage of convenience," said the three mayors Simon Kinshofer, Josef Bauer and Josef Spindler in unison and somewhat skeptical.

And had no idea what was in store for them.

In 1971 the three villages were combined to form the municipality of Fischbach.

That was history as early as 1978.

Fischbach was united with Wackersberg to form a large community.

"We never want to part"

In retrospect, the merging of the districts was not exactly structured and according to plan. In the spring of 1971, the well-informed SPD member of the Bundestag Georg Kahn-Ackermann from Münsing-Ammerland predicted that there would be no Wolfratshausen district by the 1972 local elections if the (Wolfratshauser) district citizens did not take to the barricades. In the north, as can be read in the Isar-Loisachbote, people were amazed to learn that the Tölz district was planning to expand and that the towns of Geretsried and Wolfratshausen in particular wanted to be incorporated.

In the Tölzer Kurier, the home newspaper of the south, it read a little differently. "We never want to part," the newspaper quoted a maudlin hit title to summarize a district council meeting in the spring of 1971. You don't want anything from anyone. District Administrator Otmar Huber made two demands as unchangeable and non-debatable: "We do not give anything regionally and: Tölz remains a district town."

At that time only the Miesbach local politicians appeared more self-confident and reacted with some condescension to rumors that the Tölzer district would be merged with Miesbach.

The mayor of Kreuth, Karl Mayr, was annoyed that "the rich Tegernsee valley communities" should not only finance the east and north of Miesbach, but now also the neighboring district.

He dictated to the inquiring journalists in the block: “We don't want to become an emergency district through poor Tölz, which has neither a district school nor a district hospital.” Patsch!

That sat.

The Miesbach district administrator Walter Königsdorfer added one more thing to be on the safe side: “Tölz does not have anything that we have created in 16 years.

It only has 30 kilometers of county roads. "

Decision at the beginning of October 1971

The local politicians (and the Tölzer Kurier) were foaming. There were many variations of "well poisoning", "cunning" and "ignorance". The state government, which had initiated the territorial reform “hastily and rashly”, was also given its fat, which is why there are always new and false rumors. The Tölz District Administrator Huber once again made it clear: "The Tölz District is viable on its own and does not make any territorial claims."

Nevertheless, the district association with Miesbach remained through the entire summer of 1971 over the solution favored by the state government.

A new district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, which was already being discussed at the time, was considered to be “no longer organic” in terms of its size from “outside the gates of Munich to Vorderriß”.

Tölz-Miesbach, on the other hand, is "structurally homogeneous".

The Tölzer district council, however, tended more and more towards "marriage" with Wolfratshausen.

And so it happened.

At the beginning of October 1971, the Bavarian cabinet decided that the Bad Tölz and Wolfratshausen districts should merge.

District seat should be "temporarily" Bad Tölz, which, as scoffers said, "afterwards" of course no longer changed.

No more own license plate

While the Bad Tölz district was even able to record a gain in territory through the inclusion of Schlehdorf, the Wolfratshausen district was actually "smashed", as it was said again and again.

Municipalities such as Baierbrunn, Schäftlarn, Straßlach and Sauerlach were added to the otherwise non-viable district of Munich.

Icking, Deining and Endlhausen were already outside and only literally fought their way back to the new Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district with numerous protests.

Wolfratshausen also lost its own car registration number WOR, which was also very symbolic.

The late satisfaction only followed in July 2013, when the license plate was registered again.

This was an important sign not only for nostalgic people.

When the territorial reform became legally effective on July 1, 1972, all these struggles over the territorial reform were at least officially long forgotten.

And the Tölzer Kurier headlined "From the forced wedding to a real partnership - as of today, Tölz and Wolfratshausen form a new district."

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Source: merkur

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