Against the reduction of opening hours: Jagdparcours goes back to court

Created: 05/13/2022, 09:43

By: Eva Strauss

Hunters train their rifle skills on the shooting range.

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The Jagdparcours Hattenhofen will soon be dealing with the administrative court again.

Hattenhofen – operator Florian Gmeiner has again filed a lawsuit against a decision by the district office – this time against a reduction in opening hours.

A hearing before the administrative court only took place in mid-December.

At that time, the operator had sued against limiting the number of shots to 2,200 per day.

This was determined by the district office.

For almost three years, residents of the hunting parcours have been complaining about the noise of the shots.

limitation lifted

The court had lifted the limit and recommended that the district office target the opening hours of the facility.

The district authority did that and shortened the opening hours, as a spokeswoman for the district office said when asked by the daily newspaper.

Since then, shooting has only been allowed on Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Before that, the hunting course was open Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A whole day and one hour of operating time from the remaining days are lost.

In return, the district office interprets the reduction in the number of shots "less strictly", as the spokeswoman puts it.

In concrete terms, this means that more shooting is allowed again.

Up until the first court hearing, 2,200 shots per day were allowed, now it's 3,700.

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The operator is now suing again, although the statement of grounds for the complaint is still pending.

However, the district authority assumes that the lawsuit is also directed against the restriction on the number of shots.

But not only the operator seeks the legal way.

A resident has also filed a lawsuit, although the statement of grounds for the complaint is still missing, as the spokeswoman explains.

The hunting course in Hattenhofen has existed since 1972. However, there has only been trouble with residents from Hattenhofen, Loitershofen, Peretshofen and Mammendorf for a good three years.

At that time, Gmeiner took over the shooting range that his father bought in 2014 and initially leased.

Since then, the complaints have increased significantly.

Residents say the constant shelling is unbearable.

He wants to run the business economically so that he can make a living from it, says Gmeiner.

A date for the court hearing has not yet been set.

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