Despite the gas crisis: Vitaltherme Schliersee remains Warmbad
Created: 07/20/2022, 07:00
By: Daniel Krehl, Christian Masengarb, Dieter Dorby
Heats the thermal baths: the Vitalwelt combined heat and power plant.
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Despite the looming gas crisis, Schliersee continues to heat the Vitalwelt thermal baths.
Fischbachau and Bayrischzell are now generally operating their outdoor pools gas-free - Miesbach is currently doing the same.
Schliersee – In many places, the high gas prices have led to municipalities increasingly thinking about saving energy.
This is also the case in Schliersee, although the market has not yet gone so far as to lower the water temperature in its swimming pool.
"That's not planned at the moment," says Achim Stauder, manager of Monte Mare, which also operates the thermal baths in the Vitalwelt on behalf of the community.
So it stays at 30 degrees in the thermal water, 32 degrees in the brine pool and 35 degrees in the whirlpools.
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Despite the gas crisis: Vitaltherme Schliersee remains Warmbad
Schliersee can also afford this because of the combined heat and power plant (CHP) that was installed after the renovation of the old spa center.
Whatever heat and electricity that produces is put into the water temperature.
Regarding the size: For electricity, heat, water and waste water, 220,000 euros are set for this year in the economic plan of the Vitaltherme.
About a quarter was gas costs in normal times.
When the latest economic plan was drawn up, however, the war in Ukraine had only just begun.
To a certain extent, Schliersee has the “luxury” of being able to switch to oil if necessary.
The two tanks were not removed when the gas-powered CHP was built, and there is a shutdown agreement with the gas supplier, as Mayor Franz Schnitzenbaumer (CSU) says on request.
This gives the community certain freedoms.
However, according to Schnitzenbaumer: "Oil is not what we want either." Elsewhere, the municipality relies on wood chips.
The building yard, for example, has been supplied with it for a number of years, and in future the school in Neuhaus will too.
In the course of the construction of the gymnasium, a corresponding facility will be erected.
According to Schnitzenbaumer, this should be supported by photovoltaics.
The electricity produced in this way is not to be fed into the grid, but rather converted into heat.
Meanwhile, the municipality still incurs costs for gas in various other places, for example in the farmer's theatre, in the kindergartens and in the fire station.
The old school building is also expensive.
In total, Schliersee expected gas costs of around 110,000 euros in the pre-crisis period.
The vast majority of this accrues in the vital world, with the tenants, above all Monte Mare for the sauna, bearing part of it.
Even if lowering the water temperature is currently not an issue, the option will be kept in mind, says Schnitzenbaumer.
Miesbach, Bayrischzell, Fischbachau: Gas-free 25 degrees and more
Bayrischzell and Fischbachau cannot save any gas at their outdoor pools: Both heat their water gas-free anyway.
According to Mayor Stefan Deingruber, solar energy and the district heating network fired with wood chips do this in the heated outdoor pool in Fischbachau.
The Alpenfreibad Bayrischzell draws the energy for a constant water temperature of 25 degrees from the nearby brook, explains treasurer Josef Teucher.
Neither municipality plans to lower the water temperature.
In Miesbach, where there were controversial discussions about heating the warm outdoor pool with gas (we reported), the topic is on hold.
The water temperature was 24 degrees yesterday morning and 27.6 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.
Currently, explains bathroom consultant Erhard Pohl, the solar absorber system is sufficient because the days are hot and the nights are balmy.
Gas is not an issue.
