Vitalresort: Removal application is still in the drawer

Created: 05/12/2022, 12:00 p.m

Final plans?

Four chalets are grouped around a pond, the larger buildings are the organic hotel (top left), the guest house (bottom) and the health center.

© Photo: haas cook zemmrich studio 2050

The district office is still examining the question of the existence or non-existence of the large landscape protection areas.

The Schliersee municipality's application for the removal of the hotel project in Neuhaus is still pending.

It's getting tight for a decision in July.

Schliersee - The history: In 2019, doubts arose as to whether the six large landscape protection areas in the district existed because the original map was missing.

The district council should then decide on the inventory of the areas by virtue of the available maps.

However, according to the record, that is not exactly what happened.

The district office is now taking what is known as evidence and has given all 65 participants in the meeting a statement.

If it turns out that only the minutes were incorrect, but the district councils were clear about the content of the vote, the decision would have passed.

This means that part of the hotel project area in Neuhaus would be subject to landscape protection.

Construction would only be possible if the district council decides to remove the site from the protected area.

The municipality submitted a corresponding application in January this year.

Project area remodeled on all four sides.

Is that "landscape"?

The alternative: If the evidence is unsuccessful, the district council would repeat the 2019 decision.

The district office explains on request that a map would then be voted on that does not even include the area in question in Neuhaus.

There is widespread agreement that a protected status for the 12,000 square meter site is not in the inventor's interest.

The area is surrounded on four sides by buildings, for about 4500 square meters there is a building permit through a corresponding development plan.

No "landscape" then.

But in the map series considered valid by the district office, the property is in the protected area.

Way without removal would probably be easier for investors

The investor Wolf-Dieter Roetzer can only be right if the district council makes a new decision.

Because the district office has not yet initiated the procedure for removal.

And before the district council decides, various bodies have to be heard.

Nature conservation organizations, for example, and the Environment Agency.

According to the district office, the latter requires at least one month and one week, a legally prescribed period that cannot be shortened.

And only then is the nature conservation advisory board to be heard.

"Sporty, but feasible" is the plan to submit an application for removal to the district council on July 6th.

If necessary, the environmental committee can be summoned directly before the meeting, which also has to deal with the application.

Is there another delay?

The district office says no

If the authorities fail the exercise – which they are not currently assuming – this would mean another delay for the project.

Which could only be a bad joke for the investor, because the withdrawal application has been around for months, and even that came with some delay because the issue of protected status only came up after a neighbor pointed it out (we reported).

Because the terrain is sloping, three full floors of the organic hotel are visible on the side facing the Schliersee, and only two on the other side.

© Graphic: haas cook zemmrich studio 2050

Meanwhile, Roetzer has finished his changed plans, and he doesn't want to change anything anymore.

A bio-hotel (40/78 beds), a guest house (48/92), four natural wood chalets, each with three apartments around a pond, and a health center with four practices, a cooking school, seminar rooms and staff rooms for around eight people are planned.

The plans still have to go through at least one round of interpretation.

19 detailed opinions

The district office asked 65 people about the decision on the landscape protection areas, and 19 gave detailed answers.

Twelve did not answer at all, so about half could not remember in detail and therefore could not contribute to clarifying.

The evaluation is running.

Whatever the result, the aim of the district is for the landscape protection areas to remain legally secure, which is to be decided accordingly in July.

The area boundaries are currently being revised and adapted to local conditions.

The large protected areas around Miesbach (Egartenlandschaft), Schliersee, Spitzingsee, Tegernsee, Bayrischzell and Kreuth (Weissachtal) are affected.