In a wide arc around the summit: G7 affects road traffic in the Tölzer Land

Created: 06/22/2022, 19:00

By: Andreas Steppan

Diversion signs, such as here on the B472 near Bichl, are intended to keep traffic out of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area.

Drivers who want to go to Austria are directed to the border crossing at the Achen Pass.

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The forthcoming G7 meeting in Elmau (Garmisch-Partenkirchen district) will also affect road traffic in the Tölz district.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen –

A global political event in the immediate vicinity of the district is approaching: the heads of state and government of the seven largest industrialized countries will meet at the G7 summit in Elmau from Sunday, June 26th to Tuesday, June 28th.

The people in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen are currently noticing that the region is being filled more and more with police forces.

Drivers should also be prepared for traffic restrictions.

In principle, according to the press office of the G7 police staff, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area will remain accessible during the summit days.

However, national traffic is to be diverted on a large scale.

For this purpose, 20 checkpoints were set up in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen/Mittenwald area, but also in the wider area, according to the police.

One of them is on the A95 motorway at the Sindelsdorf exit in the direction of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

"At this control point, national through traffic is diverted from the A95 motorway," said a police spokesman.

"Road users who want to go to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area for personal or professional reasons can continue after checking the A95."

Have ID ready and plan more time

When asked by the Tölzer Kurier, district office spokeswoman Sabine Schmid said that checkpoints were also set up on the B11 in Einsiedl at the entrance to the forest road and on Sylvensteindamm - i.e. on the two routes through the district on which you can also drive in the direction of Mittenwald.

The police are asking drivers to carry valid identification papers with them and have them ready by Thursday at the latest so that the check can be carried out more quickly.

"It is also recommended to plan more time for all journeys, as congestion can occur," said the police spokesman.

In general, however, the police urgently recommend avoiding non-essential trips to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area, especially from Sunday to Tuesday.

You should also pay attention to traffic reports.

On the routes that lead from Munich to Mittenwald, a “heavy load” can be expected.

This could also apply to the B13 from Tölz in the direction of Lenggries/Sylvensteinsee and further on the B307 in the direction of Achensee.

Because on this route the motorists who want to go in the direction of Austria are diverted.

Widely erected signs indicate that traffic should not roll over the Mittenwald/Scharnitz border crossing.

Instead, reference is made to the Achenpass.

The signs with this information are located in the district in Bichl-Nord on the B472, in Bad Tölz on the B13 in the area of ​​moral distribution, in Lenggries in front of the Breton bridge and on Sylvensteindamm.

Is it now to be expected that traffic chaos will break out in the region during the summit?

"No one needs to be afraid of it," said the head of the Kochel am See police station, Steffen Wiedemann.

When the weather is nice, it can of course be the case that many day trippers and drivers meet on the Kesselberg, for example.

This was also clearly noticeable when traffic was last diverted via Kochel after the train accident near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Ultimately, however, the police regularly have to cope with heavy traffic on this route.

"We still got that baked." In bad weather, the rush of day-trippers can quickly take care of itself.

Seven years ago, G7 created a gaping void

It is also conceivable that day tourists avoid the entire region anyway because of the summit.

That's how it was seven years ago.

After the G7 summit in Elmau in June 2015, the Tölzer Kurier reported: "Despite the glorious weather, there was a yawning emptiness at the popular destinations."

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In other respects, the G7 summit is once again paving the way.

According to spokeswoman Martina Geisberger, the Tölzer Stadtwerke received instructions this spring that all construction sites on state and federal roads should be closed and fully passable one week before, during and after the summit must.

That's why the construction site on Wengleinstraße is now pausing, where local heating pipes are being laid.

"All other construction sites of Stadtwerke Bad Tölz are on city streets and are not affected by this instruction," says Geisberger.

You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.

However, the summit will definitely bring one form of traffic to a standstill: namely in the air.

From Sunday, 8 a.m. to Tuesday, midnight, “manned flights under visual flight rules may not be carried out within a radius of around 56 kilometers around the Elmau venue,” said the police spokesman.

This applies, for example, to hang-gliders, paragliders or glider pilots.

The popular paragliding areas at Brauneck and Blomberg fall within the radius.

According to the police, the classic “line flight” according to instrument flight rules is not affected.

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