"Very unfortunate": Winter shuttle planned to Neuers Forsthaus Valepp - Even the mayor is surprised

Created: 08/05/2022 1:49 p.m

By: Christian Masengarb

In future, the Forsthaus Valepp should be accessible by bus from the Spitzing side in winter.

The market community wanted to prevent this.

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In winter, a shuttle will commute from Spitzing to Forsthaus Valepp.

The free state and tenants have agreed.

The community had been assured the opposite.

Schliersee – By voting in the Schliersee building committee as a protest against three Tektur applications for the Valepp forester’s lodge, Greens municipal councilor Gerhard Waas confirmed a plan that Mayor Franz Schnitzenbaumer (CSU) apparently knew nothing about: In winter, a shuttle bus should be Drive Spitzing to the forest house.

So far, the community has refused.

Now the shuttle is apparently coming through the back door.

Forsthaus Valepp: Winter shuttle lost trust - mayor surprised

There were actually three formalities on the building committee's agenda: As reported, in June the committee gave restaurateur Johannes Rabl and national soccer goalkeeper Manuel Neuer the green light to revitalize the Forsthaus Valepp;

the budget committee of the Bavarian state parliament then approved a leasehold agreement with the investor duo.

The three Tektura motions should now secure what has been agreed so that the conversions can begin.

"I want them to start this year and do the roof," said Schnitzenbaumer.

With the exception of Waas, all building committee members voted in favor of the motions.

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Waas justified his rejection by saying that he was "very unhappy" about the development of the traffic concept for the forester's lodge.

Everyone involved had repeatedly assured the community that they would not plan any traffic from the Spitzing side to the forester's house.

"Now there is a shuttle service from Spitzing."

Schnitzenbaumer disagreed.

"Possibly from the press" Waas found out about this "false report".

"We said quite clearly: 'Spitzing is closed.'

There is no accommodation from us at all.” Jörg Meyer, head of the Schliersee forestry company, which owns the road from Spitzing to the forester's house, also assured him that no new traffic would be allowed.

That includes a shuttle.

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However, the shuttle service from Spitzing is not an invention of the media.

For example, the office of constituency representative Ilse Aigner (CSU) wrote in a press release on the day of the state parliament decision: "To ensure winter operations in the forester's lodge, the state forests are providing up to ten parking spaces in the Spitzingsee area (Wurzhütte area).

During this period, the leaseholder can transport the house guests by means of a shuttle service.” The Schliersee town hall apparently considered this information quoted by the media to be incorrect.

But she is not.

State forest manager Jörg Meyer confirms when asked: A forest house shuttle for staff and guests is planned for winter.

Since this passage is apparently anchored in the long-term lease agreement, it undermines the “no new traffic” promise, as understood by the market community in the discussions.

Meyer emphasizes that traffic will remain minimal.

The road would remain closed to private traffic.

By the time the forester's house opens, the forest will work with the communities to develop a transport concept that is acceptable to everyone.

It is conceivable, for example, to limit shuttle traffic to a minibus that only drives once a day in each direction.

The Forsthaus operators would also have to make a “significant” contribution to the clearing costs of the road to Spitzingsee, which was also cleared in previous winters.

If there is a risk of avalanches, the shuttle stands still.

Measures to reduce the risk of avalanches, such as blasting, are unthinkable in the sensitive area.

Meyer: "Nature is close to our hearts."

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Not enough, says Waas.

Because the limitations are not in the long-term lease, the operators could enforce more frequent connections in the future with reference to economic hardship, the Greens local council fears.

"I don't want to imply that it has to be like this.

But we won't be able to prevent it either.

The operator now holds all the trump cards.”

Waas says he is disappointed in the leasehold negotiators and the operators.

"If this is already the case, I'm excited to see what's to come.

My confidence has not grown.”

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