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Too high a price for too little service: the Kreuth community has been asked to withdraw from the tourism association

2022-07-13T18:14:00.532Z


Too high a price for too little service: the Kreuth community has been asked to withdraw from the tourism association Created: 07/13/2022, 8:00 p.m By: Christina Jachert-Maier Can be improved: According to Markus Wrba, the Kreuth center lacks the atmosphere that a mountaineering village should have. But embellishments cost money. © STEFAN SCHWEIHOFER Markus Wrba (61) used to fight with the Off


Too high a price for too little service: the Kreuth community has been asked to withdraw from the tourism association

Created: 07/13/2022, 8:00 p.m

By: Christina Jachert-Maier

Can be improved: According to Markus Wrba, the Kreuth center lacks the atmosphere that a mountaineering village should have.

But embellishments cost money.

© STEFAN SCHWEIHOFER

Markus Wrba (61) used to fight with the Offensive Tegernseer Tal (OTT) for a joint tourism association in the Tegernseer Tal.

Now the Kreuther FWG local council is heading in the opposite direction: it is demanding that its home community leave the TTT.

Kreuth –

Wrba was never afraid of conflict.

And tourism has long been his topic.

For many years he spoke up as a member of the Offensive Tegernseer Tal (TTT), founded in 1997.

Their goal was the merging of all tourism organizations in the Tegernsee valley into a single association.

It was long since completed, the OTT petered out.

But Wrba is convinced today: Kreuth does not benefit from the association.

"For us, price and performance are not in a good relationship," he says.

Wrba reports that Kreuth has to pay 580,000 euros to Tegernseer Tal Tourismus GmbH (TTT) per year.

That's too much for the financially strapped community: "We can no longer afford it."

Markus Wrba © Munich Merkur

The money saved should flow into the development as a mountaineering village

A discussion about details is not enough for Wrba.

He demands an exit.

Kreuth, he thinks, should sharpen its profile as a mountaineering village on its own.

With the money saved by leaving, the municipality could hire a manager who would concentrate on the internal development of Kreuth.

Because it leaves a lot to be desired.

"The village of Kreuth is unsightly," he says.

A mountaineering village not only needs mountains, but also a village with atmosphere.

There are ideas for this, says Wrba: "But we simply don't have the money."

“I want to give an initial spark”

The call to get out does not fit the much-vaunted desire for harmony in the valley.

Because of the slim prospects of success, Wrba is not initially applying to the municipal council to get out as a TTT shareholder.

"But I want to give an initial spark," he says.

What was previously only an issue behind closed doors, the FWG municipal council now wants to bring up at a public meeting.

"That should start a discussion."

The lawyer is not concerned with heads.

According to Wrba, he doesn't blame TTT Managing Director Christian Kausch.

Kausch implemented what the valley mayors expected of him.

This is discussed at mayoral service meetings, about the content of which the municipal councilors learn little, Wrba notes: "There are no minutes." His initiative is not directed against Mayor Josef Bierschneider (CSU).

He was "an ideal cast for Kreuth".

Bad financial situation

From his point of view, according to Wrba, the communities around the lake simply developed differently.

"Kreuth no longer fits into the high-gloss valley." Bad Wiessee, Rottach-Egern and Tegernsee are in very good financial shape and are also able to create affordable living space.

In Kreuth, on the other hand, the chamberlain only manages to put together a household "with a lot of hard work".

The community messed around with the May Clinic project for years instead of finally buying the site.

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“I want to start a process”

Meanwhile, the mountaineering village of Kreuth only appears marginally in the TTT concept, Wrba complains.

The community has had the seal since July 2018, and working groups are discussing how to fill it with life.

"But you don't see any of it," says Wrba.

Kreuth needs money to develop its identity as a mountaineering village and to design the place accordingly.

In his opinion, the money that is now flowing into the association would be better invested for this purpose.

"We can also do without outdoor advertising altogether."

The Kreuth municipal council recently had many questions for TTT boss Kausch.

They are to be answered at a meeting of the tourism committee on Thursday, July 21.

It takes place in camera.

Wrba wants more: "I want to start a process."

Source: merkur

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