"Frightening": Prominent hotel directly on Schliersee should be significantly larger - discussions in the community

Created: 06/02/2022, 20:47

Has grandiose plans for his Schliersee farm: Walter de Alwis.

In principle, the municipal council supports the demolition and new construction.

However, opinions are already divided on the size of the project.

© Stefan Schweihofer

Big plans for one of the most prominent hotels in Schliersee: The Schlierseer Hof is to make way for a new building.

120 beds, top category.

Schliersee – For many years calls for more hotel beds in Schliersee went unheeded.

Mayor Franz Schnitzenbaumer (CSU) - or his wife - had to build it himself to change anything.

Then came the Vitalresort project in Neuhaus (we reported), and this is now being joined by another major project: Walter de Alwis wants to demolish his Schlierseer Hof and build a new one.

The municipal council has now signaled that it will go along with this – via a project-related development plan.

Schlierseer Hof is to give way to a new building: foreseeable criticism of the size of the building

One point that the discussion will revolve around is already foreseeable: As with all hotel projects, the size will draw criticism.

De Alwis apparently gave his planner a free hand, and he went to great lengths.

The visualization in the municipal council showed a three-part structure, the middle one six stories high plus the attic.

This is unprecedented in the whole of Schliersee, as Birgit Kienast, head of the building authority, let know.

Other critical points according to management: a pool that protrudes into the lake, a raft with gastronomic use and a large underground car park.

Some specialist departments will want to have a say, as Schnitzenbaumer said at the meeting.

Water management office, road construction office, castle and lake administration.

The draft resolution also speaks of “considerable influence on the townscape and landscape”.

Plenty of conflict material.

Incidentally, the project also includes the former Trachtenhaus Siebzehnrübl, which is directly adjacent to the Schlierseer Hof and which de Alwis bought.

Green municipal council on the hotel project at Schliersee: "Visualizations are frightening"

Bernd Mayer-Hubner (Greens) found the visualizations downright “terrifying”.

His parliamentary colleague Gerhard Waas said: "As I see it, the planning has no chance." As a very first step, he suggested a scoping appointment with the specialist departments.

Ultimately, however, he also agreed to draw up a project-related development plan.

As Philipp Krogoll (Die Schlierseer) noted, this has the advantage that a planner from the municipality would be present at such a meeting.

Wolfgang Mundel (CSU) found it important to give the project developer the signal that the municipal council is in principle willing to support demolition and new construction.

Schnitzenbaumer also said: "It would be important to start now." Only Babette Wehrmann (Greens) did not want to take this step.

"I find it difficult to give the go-ahead for a project that I don't stand behind." She feels reminded of Spitzingsee with the "much too big Arabella".

Hotel project at Schliersee: Project-related development plan to avoid undesirable developments

The planning itself was not discussed further, but it doesn't take much imagination to realize that the municipal council will hardly support the desired building height in particular.

And nothing goes against the municipal council with a project-related development plan, as Kienast emphasized.

Local politicians have a "great say" in this instrument.

This goes so far that the developer undertakes to implement the project on a day X and the building rights cannot be exercised by a third party.

Mundel liked the fact that the investor and operator are identical in this case and are also known to the municipality.

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Municipal council in principle for new building - hotel manager: "A very, very important signal"

For de Alwis, the decision is a "very, very important signal," he said the day after the meeting.

He envisions a "flagship project for Schliersee" that will also attract guests in the previous off-season - which is also good for retail and trade in the community.

The 68-year-old knows about the upcoming discussions.

"Unfortunately, a hotel needs to be of a certain size." He does not say this sentence succinctly, but points out that banks only finance projects that have the appropriate prospects of success.

There will be around 120 rooms, plus a wellness and conference area, of course in the top category.

Schlierseer Hof managed by Walter de Alwis for almost 18 years

De Alwis and his family have been thinking about the future for a long time.

The hotelier, who was born in Sri Lanka, took over the Schlierseer Hof (currently 46 rooms) almost 18 years ago.

"There is no more beautiful place in the world," he says of his new home.

Since he has been here, he has also been familiar with the discussion about the lack of hotel beds.

The fact that he now wants to be active here is also due to his son Marcel.

In the future he will be the face of the Schlierseer Hof.

The 24-year-old attended the Klessheim Tourism School, worked in several top hotels and was “Receptionist of the Year” in Germany in 2018.

Actually, the USA should be his next stop.

Now he would like to take care of the new building project in the Oberland together with his father Walter.

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