It had emerged, it has been fixed since yesterday afternoon: There will be no Christmas market in Dachau in 2021 either.
The rejection for the Christkindlmarktverein is particularly bitter: it had already invested 450 working hours and 20,000 euros in the planning.
Dachau
- Yesterday at 3 p.m. there was a crucial discussion in the town hall. As chairman of the Dachau Christmas Market Association, Christian Naumann had already suspected how that would turn out: In view of the dramatic situation in the Dachau hospital and the further steep rise in the number of infections in the district, the city is likely to withdraw its approval for the market.
And so it happened.
He was told that the market was “not feasible” under the current conditions, reports Naumann.
The parking space fees already paid by the stand operators must now be reimbursed.
Naumann does not know who will pay for the expenses that the Christkindlmarktverein has invested in advertising, electrics or trees in recent weeks.
On top of that, there would be around 450 hours of volunteer work.
Christian Naumann emphasizes that the city's hands were “tied” in view of the current situation.
He himself was surprised by the “dynamism of development,” as he admits.
As reported, the market was announced at the end of October as an event open to all without G-rules.
Then last week it was switched to 2G, which means that only those who had been vaccinated and who had been tested were allowed to come. The city would have paid half of the security forces necessary to enforce this regulation. When the open Advent market on Sunday, November 21st, was canceled by the city shortly afterwards - the Christmas market should have started at the same time - it should have been clear to everyone that a Christmas miracle would be needed for the market to take place permit.
But Christian Naumann is not mad at the city, as he emphasizes. What annoys him is the "big politics". Because actually, according to the head of the Christkindmarktsverein, “it was already clear in August that the pandemic was not over and that the next winter was coming”. Instead, letters would have been received from Munich four weeks ago saying how much a Christmas market would be desired. “We were treated like stupid little children by the government.” One needn't be surprised if - see opponents of vaccinations - some actually “act like stupid little children” these days.
Basically, according to Naumann, the past few weeks had done a “stupid job” for him, which in the end was not only free, but also cost the club money.
“I never do that”, the Dachau resident announces with a view to 2022.
Next year he wants an announcement by October whether the market will take place or not.