The planned repair of the artificial ice rink at Königssee, which was destroyed by heavy rain in the summer, will be even more complicated than previously thought.
This emerges from a current draft resolution for the Berchtesgadener Land district council.
According to this, a rebuilding of the track for bobsleighs and sledges presupposes "that the artificial ice rink could be protected against geohazards in the future" and that the "financing completely" would come from the federal government and the Free State of Bavaria.
According to the assessment of a geologist, the water masses on the mountain above the railway moved around 10,000 cubic meters of rubble and wood, which even a 13.5 meter high dam with a retention basin would not have completely stopped.
In addition to the roughly estimated costs of 53.5 million euros, another million should now come for securing the slope above the famous sports facility.
According to a meeting of the three responsible state ministries with the State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the local leaders at the end of September, the money is to come from the federal aid fund.
The railway in the far south-east of Bavaria is a prominent example of what so-called blockages can cause - water masses dammed up by blocked bridges had also caused devastation in the Ahr valley.
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