Icelandic horses are looking for a new home
Created: 03/12/2022, 17:32
By: Stefanie Zipfer
The five school horses of the Icelandic horse ranch in the city forest will have to move in autumn 2023.
Her owner is now looking for a new area where children and animals can let off steam.
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The city of Dachau remains tough: The Icelandic horse ranch in the city forest has to go.
"If we clean up, then properly," says a town hall spokesman.
Dachau – After the allotment gardens on Gröbenrieder Straße, the city is also getting serious about the Icelandic horse ranch in the city forest.
The system, which is particularly popular with children, must be removed by autumn 2023.
Operator Nicole Reinwarth is now looking for an alternative location.
You can read on the website www.change.org why the Icelandic horse ranch in the Dachau city forest must be preserved.
A few days ago, parents started a petition for the preservation of the riding facility on the global online platform.
“Classic riding lessons” are possible there, and there are also “plenty of adventures”, “carnival riding in disguise or Christmas riding with punch”, “dwarf riding from the age of three” and “holiday programs with exciting games”.
After everything the children "have endured and carried" in the past two years, "this happiness, this joy should not be taken away from them," wrote the initiators of the petition.
They have already found 400 supporters for their cause - but are unlikely to have any success with the city.
Because: In the spring of 2018, the building authority had determined that the system, which had been in operation for 15 years, was “in violation of building law” (we reported).
"There are things for which there was no approval," said the town hall at the time.
The result: the system should go.
The owner of the area, Nikolaus Gamperl, did not want to put up with this and was initially combative.
"I'm not leaving!
They have to pick me up with the police," he said, determined to do everything, to the local newspaper.
More current news from the district of Dachau can be found here.
But now, according to Moritz Reinhold, head of the building authority, Gamperl has reached an agreement with the city, according to which the horse ranch should disappear by autumn 2023.
According to Reinhold, the "final removal order" is based on the fact that the system was built illegally and is also located in a flood risk area.
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According to Reinhold, yielding or any solution other than dismantling is out of the question.
“We treat everyone equally.
If we're going to clean up this area, then do it right.
Anything else would be absurd.”
As a reminder: the neighboring allotment garden, which has existed for many decades, is also to be removed according to the will of the city.
Flood protection is also cited there as a reason (we reported).
Nicole Reinwarth, riding instructor and operator of the horse ranch, hasn't given up hope entirely.
The agreement signed by Gamperl was "only forced" to be signed, and she continues to hope that the authorities will give in.
The fact that her riding students support her - in the form of the online petition and a recently started appeal for donations - gives her courage and makes her happy.
At the same time, she is already pursuing a plan B by looking for a new location for the ranch.
Specifically, she is looking for an area of at least one hectare for her five riding school horses, including pasture, open stables and possibly a "living room for the children".
Anyone who owns a suitable property – if possible in the districts of Dachau or Fürstenfeldbruck – can contact her at any time.
The parents of her little riding students keep their fingers crossed for her as best they can.
"All of us who love to ride there are now trying to help and save the pony farm.
Because that is simply important to us, because of the children, because of the horses and because the owner raised it there so lovingly," says a mother in an e-mail to the local newspaper.
Another mother regrets that "because of the building permit thing" it is now unfortunately "first and foremost completely innocent children and the horses who suffer the most.
A horse that does not have shelter in wind and weather will not stay healthy for long.
And children don't understand why they should give up their beloved horses and riding lessons".
But the building department sees things differently.
Manager Reinhold emphasizes that the operators of the ranch now had "five years to prepare for the end".
At some point, according to Reinhold, it has to “be good too”.
