Wafer-thin playground decision: Kirchdorfer cable car fails because of a single vote

Created: 07/04/2022, 08:00

The children in Kirchdorf can look forward to a new playground.

The municipal council has now given the green light to one of two alternatives.

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There were two variants for the planned playground in Kirchdorf.

In the end, a single vote was decisive.

Kirchdorf - A playground with a cable car or without: That was the question in the most recent Kirchdorf municipal council meeting last Tuesday.

When planning the playground on Quellenweg, there were two proposals that could not have been more different.

After the discussion about the two variants – one more for smaller, the other for older children – one vote tipped the scales in the decision.

The residents' wish list is long

"The property is exceptional and offers a lot of potential," explained the commissioned landscape architect Daniela Bücking.

The area extends over 800 square meters on a hillside with an impressive difference in height.

The area was once out of the question as a building plot due to strata water problems, now a playground is to be built there.

A survey by local councilor Anton Pittner (CSU/FW) revealed what residents want most for their kids: swings with toddler seats, climbing opportunities, a slide, a playhouse, a carousel and much more.

A cable car or zip line is also at the top of the wish list - also because the property on the slope is supposedly made for it.

However, the installation of such a cable car would involve massive earth movements.

That could be expensive: the costs are estimated at 24,000 euros.

On top of that there would be play equipment of all kinds, which would then cost around 30,000 euros.

But why does so much digging have to be done for a cable car?

Bücking gave the answer: "There can only be a height difference of 80 centimeters in a cable car, otherwise the speed will be too high."

Two camps are formed in the conception

On the other hand, there would be hardly any soil movement with Variant 2, which Bücking presented.

Here the terrain is worked on by creating only light terraces, which in turn are equipped with the various play equipment.

These terraces could then be connected with climbing elements, boulders would be planned as a continuous design element, which would so to speak trace the natural course of the spring.

According to Bücking, problems with the stratum water are significantly lower with variant 2 because less soil would be moved.

Costs for the play equipment, which in variant 2 is more fun for the little ones, including a tube slide and picnic tables: around 42,000 euros.

It was exciting until the vote

Pittner warned that no ground movements were planned at all in terms of costs for variant 2, which is why the two variants are basically not comparable in terms of price.

What Pittner also addressed: To his knowledge, the strata water issue has largely been dealt with there, and earthworks, even larger ones, are affordable there, because there are excavator and truck drivers among the residents.

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Like Pittner, Martin Heyne (Greens) and Andreas Schmitz (FWG) preferred variant 1 for one simple reason: "The children clearly want a cable car!", as Heyne emphasized.

Claudia Rohrmoser (FWG) and Regina Elzenbeck, on the other hand, liked Variant 2 better, also because significantly more play equipment would be installed there, while the cable car would take up a lot of space in Variant 1.

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It remained exciting until the vote on whether Kirchdorf would get its first cable car or not.

Result: 7 councilors voted for variant 1, i.e. for a cable car, 8 councilors raised their hands for variant 2.

(Richard Lorenz)