There will be no market Sundays in Starnberg next year.
This was decided by an extraordinary general meeting of the City Initiative on Tuesday evening.
Instead, the entrepreneurs rely on a long evening opening and a Sisi and Ludwig project.
Starnberg
- Who would have thought that back then? Market Sunday on June 2, 2019 on the occasion of French Week will go down in history as the last action of its kind. First Corona prevented further market Sundays - now the City Initiative has buried this concept, at least for the next year.
"There is often the opinion that market Sundays are no longer appropriate," said Jan Thunig, chairman of the City Initiative since May, at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday evening in the Schlossberghalle. Such days are time-consuming to organize and expensive - Thunig spoke of costs of 2,000 to 3,000 euros for road closures alone. “And then not everyone participates. If only every second shop is open until 3 p.m., that is rather counterproductive and a sad picture. ”Although, as head of the ice cream workshop, he benefits from market Sundays, Thunig, together with his board colleagues Manuela Keiler and Annette von Nordeck, suggested that there should be no market Sundays in the coming year Starnberg to organize more. Ten votes in favor and three abstentions were a clear result of the vote.
However, there should still be an additional option for opening the shops outside of normal hours. Mayor Patrick Janik and city sponsor Sarah Buckel brought the night of the long table into play, which will take place again next year. Buckel explained that in Bavaria there is the possibility to be allowed to open until midnight once a year for so-called late-night shopping. However, Janik also made the dealers responsible: “The most important thing is a high participation rate. Otherwise you will only make it worse. "
Janik used the discussion to make a general appeal. The new board of the City Initiative, of which he is also a member, accepted the task “enthusiastically” of wanting to give the retail trade a new impetus. “We can make a difference, but that doesn't work if the load rests on just a few shoulders,” he emphasized. This awareness and interest in membership and cooperation must be sharpened. For this reason, feedback from the ranks of the dealerships is also extremely important. "The key is to create a spirit of optimism," said Janik. "I very much hope that retail issues have not yet fallen into too much agony." Nicola Eggendorfer-Schropp from the "Spielhaus" on Hanfelder Strasse could only agree. "It's really counterproductive when so many dealers don't go along," she said.
The city initiative is also expecting momentum from a Sisi and Ludwig campaign. The recently set up themed trails around the lake have got off to a very good start, reported Annette von Nordeck, who works full-time as an economic developer at gwt. There were up to 10,000 audioguide visits within the first three months. Now partners have developed the idea that strollers (for example at the votive chapel) project the fairy tale king or the empress into their image using a QR code when making selfies with their smartphone - the whole thing combined with a lot from the Starnberg retailers. "That would be an attempt at best to get people into the city center," said von Nordeck. Nicola Eggendorfer-Schropp called this idea “innovative and funny”.
However, until late-night shopping or Sisi and Ludwig shopping, the Advent season is first.
On all four Saturdays in Advent, Santa Claus will give children gingerbread cookies on behalf of the City Initiative, said Jan Thunig.
Whether there will be vouchers from shops again or this time just a little surprise from the City Initiative has not yet been determined, added Annette von Nordeck.
