The StadTeilAuto Freising celebrated its 30th birthday.
However, the club does not wallow in nostalgia, but sets itself big goals for the future.
Freising
– the men and women who founded the StadtTeilAuto Freising association in 1992 were ahead of their time.
30 years later, the mobility and traffic turnaround, climate protection and car sharing are already much more in the mind.
And even if the rethinking had to be even stronger, as all speakers emphasized, the 30th birthday of StadtTeilAuto Freising was still a reason to celebrate.
A small ceremony was held in the town hall meeting room on Saturday, where all the speakers and well-wishers praised the commitment of the car sharers.
It all started with Freising's second mayor, Eva Bönig, who described car sharing as something special - no longer particularly exotic, as it was in the early days of the association, but now particularly important.
StadtTeilAuto plays an important “pioneering role”
The times when the car was a status symbol are probably over, StadtTeilAuto has had a true “success story” over the past three decades: they now have around 300 members and own 18 vehicles (14 in the city of Freising, two in Moosburg , one each in Neufahrn and Eching).
City council and administration support the goals of the association, stressed Bönig.
The proportion of the environmental association - i.e. everything that is not motorized individual traffic - in the traffic volume in the city of Freising is a good 60 percent.
StadtTeilAuto plays an important "pioneering role".
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Chairman Sonja Zieska (left) honored loyal members: Hans Joachim Joekel has been with the association for 18 years, including eight years as chairman.
Nicole Alexy has been active at StadtTeilAuto for 16 years, including as an assessor and treasurer.
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District Administrator Helmut Petz said that "it just had to click in people's heads".
But that is "incredibly tough" because you have to say goodbye to old habits.
Petz also touched his own nose: "I'm really terrible in this respect," he confessed, having grown up in a time when mobility meant freedom.
So he himself had to rethink – just like society.
Petz broadened his view of the energy transition, pointing out what photovoltaics and wind power are needed in the district alone to stop climate change.
He described the 10H regulation for wind turbines as “gross nonsense”.
The fact that some mayors shy away from "doing trouble" with a wind turbine is a sign that the necessary rethinking in society has not yet started.
StadtTeilAuto is "a symbol and an impetus for this rethinking", praised the head of the district.
"MP without his own car" confirms: "It works!"
Before Ulrich Kias, founding member of StadtTeilAuto with membership number 005, looked back at history and Klaus Breindl, the chairman of the Vaterstettener Autoteiler, which was also founded in 1992, stepped up to the microphone, it was up to Johannes Becher, a member of the state parliament, to give “a small political speech”: He, the "MP without his own car", can only confirm: "It works!" Because as a member of StadtTeilAuto he is a "MP with access to a lot of cars".
Sharing – including the car – is not only fun, it also makes sense.
The fact that 13 million residents in Bavaria have more than ten million cars causes problems, leads to noise pollution and traffic looking for a parking space, making it necessary to build more and more new roads.
StadtTeilAuto has been showing a solution for 30 years.
In addition, there are all the advantages of not having to worry about taxes and insurance, repairs and workshop visits.
That's why Becher's demand was clear: "We have to push the issue further politically." If you invest billions in an S-Bahn tunnel and continue to stick to the third runway, "there's a lack of Boa," Becher said in a Bavarian and political way.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
"We really made it big," said Sonja Ziesak, Chairwoman of StadtTeilAuto, describing everything else that had been organized for the club's birthday on Saturday: At the ceremony, Häns Czernik, Sandra Rieger and Anna Stehrer played energetically on the Marienplatz It continued with bands and brass band music, StadtTeilAuto had set up information stands, a food truck took care of the physical well-being, there were also juggler performances and fairy dances.
And Ziesak formulated 30 years after, according to Becher, "we were still being looked at strangely", also the goal of the association: a car sharing car every 500 meters.
