The new Oberau tunnel has been in operation for a few days - and the Loisach community has been spared traffic jams, noise and exhaust fumes.
However, a temporary traffic routing in the area causes confusion.
The reason: The old through road was closed due to an upcoming bridge construction.
Oberau – Oberau Mayor Peter Imminger (CSU) didn't hesitate for long yesterday: “I'll take a look.
Nobody can see through that anymore," said the long-time head of town hall - and got into his Audi to drive along all the routes of the new traffic management system.
Since the opening of the around 260 million euro bypass including tunnel, there has apparently been a certain helplessness among many motorists, including those who know the area.
"I don't even know how to drive anymore," the community said.
Supposedly Navis go crazy.
There is talk of chaos.
And many a desperate person turned to the police.
Detour south
The irritations have nothing to do with the new tubes, which were released after seven years of construction - and despite block clearance on Sunday afternoon (heading north) bring the desired effect: a noticeable relief for the traffic-plagued municipality of around 3,200 inhabitants.
The problem is rather the trappings.
The old B2 through road is temporarily closed and only open to residents.
Barriers and signs make this unmistakably clear in several places.
The reason: The bridge over the Gießenbach at the northern entrance to the town is being demolished and rebuilt at the right angle to the planned town entrance.
The building should be up by November, reports Imminger.
The impassability of the aforesaid traffic axis, on which the car avalanche used to squeeze through, has far-reaching consequences:
If you come from the Ammertal, drive down the Ettaler Berg and want to go north, for example on the autobahn or to Murnau, you first have to go in the opposite direction.
Car drivers can turn into the Oberauer Tunnel at the south portal a few hundred meters further on.
Because this turn-off lane is too narrow and too tightly curved, trucks and buses have to take a longer detour: they can only turn around in Farchant or at the Partenkirchner roundabout.
Restrictions only temporary
Imminger takes it easy.
The restrictions are only temporary, he says.
"You have to swallow that.
We won't have any other choice."
In Oberau, however, word of a secret path via Mühlstrasse and Triftstrasse has spread – certainly to the chagrin of the affected residents.
Because although the old through road is sealed off, there is a small makeshift feeder road at the northern end of the town over the second Gießenbach bridge.
There you come out at the north portal.
Nadine Heiss, who is responsible for the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Weilheim State Building Authority, is asking for understanding for the somewhat cumbersome diversion to the south.
Once the bridge construction is complete, the through road will be reopened.
"Everyone has to go through it again." But the situation at the bridge construction site is simply too tight to allow all traffic to flow there.