Hot debate about the new Moosen market hall

Created: 05/16/2022, 16:00

By: Birgit Lang

Christine Schwarz asked Mayor Stefan Haberl for a speed limit.

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In the citizens' meeting in Moosen, some participants criticized the planning around the farmers' market and fire brigade.

Moosen

– The restaurant and the Salettl at Wirt z'Moosen were full, so great was the interest in the citizens' meeting.

One topic in particular caused a stir: the Dorfstadl, as Mayor Stefan Haberl called it.

By that he meant a possible new building in place of the farmers' market pavilion.

Haberl admitted that the communication was not optimal: "It may have come across wrong that something is done without being asked beforehand."

Storage areas are needed for the fire brigade and the riflemen, a public toilet not only for the farmer's market and a new regulation of the parking situation.

The community wanted to bring this to a common denominator, which met with resistance (we reported).

Storage areas are planned at the fire station and a new building for the farmer's market, in which local supplies could take place in the future.

Architect Tobias Kirchmair presented his draft of a market hall to the citizens.

The almost square, column-free and heatable building, about twice the size of the current wooden pavilion, also has a barrier-free toilet that can be used in the beer garden, and a storeroom.

The cost estimate is 580,000 euros, without own contribution.

“Who pays for that?” asked innkeeper Manfred Zuhr.

Such measures are eligible for funding at 60 percent, Haberl replied.

When, how and if it will be built at all, the municipal council must decide.

Tom Kneißl from Holzheu wanted to know what the farmer's market was generating and whether it was profitable.

The providers are not from the municipality.

"Why should we spend so much money on others?"

"Big fanfare" denounced Rupert Kneißl.

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His brother Rupert Kneißl from Moosen was indignant: "We only wanted a storage place, and now there's such a big fanfare.

It annoys us when we always have to pack and unpack stuff.” By that he meant barbecues, parasols and other things for the village festival.

"We don't have half a million, but a plus," explained Kurt Empl, chairman of the Vilstal Farmers' Market Association.

With the farmer's market you can secure the future local supply, maybe even expand it into a village shop.

If you don't want it, everything will stay the same.

"The storage areas will be realized in-house - if so, then we'll build something clever, no patchwork," said fire department chairman Martin Ausserbauer.

Erich Liebl interjected that there were enough vacancies in Moosen where the riflemen and the fire brigade could store material that is only used once a year.

"You don't need anything new." In the past, you even drove everything into the forest for the forest festival, and back then you weren't that well equipped.

The farmers' market theme and the fire station should be considered separately, said Haberl.

But the public toilets are of the same interest.

The parking situation around the maypole should also be improved in this context.

There are many complaints and problems because of the long-term parkers there.

As a result, the access road to the fire brigade is often blocked.

Therefore, signs are planned for short-term parking, from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a maximum parking time of three hours.

"The necessary signs would be there," said Haberl, emphasizing that those present should experience it first-hand, "before facts are created and everyone is surprised".

This is not a good idea for Wirt Zuhr.

"We'll restrict public parking, then wild parking will come back onto the street," he predicted.

He was particularly annoyed that the municipality in Moosen "allows building tycoons who build ten or twelve apartments and only ten parking spaces".

Then 15 cars would be parked there on the street or in the parking lot of his inn.

The east and west streets are also fully parked, and the building yard has to drive in wavy lines when clearing snow in winter.

Christine Schwarz was upset about the "insane traffic" and the resulting "insane noise pollution" in Moosen.

"We feel as if we lived on the Autobahn" since the A 94 was opened.

Some motorists would drive past them on the main road outside of Moosen at 120 km/h.

Because there is no speed limit when driving outside.

Schwarz asked for one.