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Thieves make numerous communities nameless - replacements for stolen place-name signs are in demand

2021-11-06T07:13:47.050Z


Stealing the names of the places - this has evidently established itself as a hobby for anonymous sign thieves in recent months. In Weilheim-Schongau and the neighboring districts, place-name signs have recently been lost time and again. At Bremicker in Weilheim, that means: more orders.


Stealing the names of the places - this has evidently established itself as a hobby for anonymous sign thieves in recent months.

In Weilheim-Schongau and the neighboring districts, place-name signs have recently been lost time and again.

At Bremicker in Weilheim, that means: more orders.

District

- Bold sign thieves have made numerous communities in the region nameless in the past few months. Hohenfurch, Ingenried, Issing and Drößling are just a few of the affected localities in and around the Weilheim-Schongau district that have to look for new signs after they have been robbed.

After the theft of the town signs for Burggen, Schwabbruck, Altenstadt and Ingenried, an investigation has started at the Schongau police station - so far with little success: "The perpetrators from Ingenried have been identified," said an employee of the office.

It was about young people who, however, were not related to the other thefts of place-name signs.

The police assume that - contrary to the initial suspicion - different perpetrators were at work who acted independently of each other.

For the other stolen communities, the investigation continues, it is said.

Also popular: exchanging place-name signs

The police inspectorate in the neighboring district of Starnberg are also troubled by the sign thieves: since September 1, a total of six signs have been stolen there. Four are missing in Starnberg and one in Pöcking. A Tutzing place-name sign was removed and instead screwed on in Drößling, where the original is now missing, according to Kai Motschmann from the Starnberg office. There is still no trace of the other signs - the investigations are ongoing here too.

As inquiries at other police inspections revealed, the thefts were not even reported in many places.

The offices in Landsberg, Fürstenfeldbruck and Weilheim were not aware of any thefts - although a place-name sign was stolen in Issing in mid-October, as the local newspaper is aware of.

The Landsberg police station was only reported the theft of traffic signs in Rott, but not those of place-name signs.

The series of thefts made itself felt in the order books of the Bremicker company

The partly nameless places have to try to find a replacement quickly. This is available from the Bremicker company in Weilheim, where the series of thefts across the district has been noticeable in the order books for some time. "We have had more orders for new place-name signs for a few months now," said Luisa Langella from Bremicker Verkehrstechnik when asked by the local newspaper. Even for the employee, the thieves are anything but comprehensible: "There are different names that are not even funny," she says.

In the past few years, Bremicker often had to deliver place-name signs that had previously been lost in night-and-fog campaigns.

According to Langella, these were at least funny place names like Kissing or Tittenkofen.

It is the first time that so many “normal” place names are stolen.

In the past, they were at least funny place names like Kissing or Tittenkofen

Depending on where the missing sign was once, either the district or the municipality is responsible for a replacement, explains Langella.

“It takes about two weeks from ordering to delivery.” In the meantime, the municipalities have to put in place provisional speed limits that signal the inner-city speed limit of 50 kilometers per hour.

The costs are different, but the catalog price for a double-sided sign is around 300 euros.

A lot of fun for the municipalities - especially if several signs are stolen at once.

Source: merkur

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