District heating Miesbach: heating center should be in the city forest - planning process started

Created: 08/08/2022, 08:00

By: Dieter Dorby

This is where it should go: On the edge of the city forest south of the Auf der Grün settlement, the city of Miesbach would like to achieve a central heating system.

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The local heating project in Miesbach has cleared the next hurdle.

The city council has decided to build the heating center on the outskirts of the city forest.

But that's tricky.

Miesbach

– The construction of a local heating network, for which the Miesbach city council gave the go-ahead in April, is picking up speed.

The company MW Biomasse from Irschenberg was considered as the operator.

In the meantime, the initially most difficult question has been clarified: Where should the heating center required for this be installed?

The choice now fell on the outskirts of the city forest south-west of the settlement Auf der Grün.

According to the head of the building authority, Lutz Breitwieser, the search for a location is generally difficult.

Ownership, emission protection (air quality, smell and noise), connection (access, heating connection) and feasibility (building law, town/landscape, nature conservation, conflicts of use) would have to be taken into account.

Especially since the area must have a size of at least 600 square meters.

According to Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller (CSU), a total of 20 locations had to be examined.

The Oberland energy transition was also involved.

In the end, the area in the city forest near the green turned out to be the most favorable.

District Office promises exemption

There have already been two on-site visits with the district office, in which the lower nature conservation authority was initially reluctant.

The problem: The area is in a landscape protection area.

In order for the project to be implemented, the district council or the district office need an exemption, for which a public interest would have to be proven.

There should be no alternative space for this.

According to Breitwieser, the conditions for an exemption, which is the simpler instrument, are in place.

The Lower Nature Conservation Authority promised approval.

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In concrete terms, the area in the forest is well suited, the head of the building authority stated.

It is conveniently located and the existing road system is good.

The fuss about the abolition of the landscape protection ordinance does not affect the project either, as Breitwieser emphasized: “We are acting as if the landscape protection still exists in its previous form.

We are dealing with the situation responsibly in consultation with the district office.

Project-related development plan is coming

For Markus Seemüller (FWG), what has already been achieved is a good step, but not enough.

He therefore submitted a more extensive resolution proposal for the public meeting, according to which specific negotiations should be held with the investor about the property and the line rights, but this was rejected against the votes of the FWG.

The topic was then discussed privately.

On the other hand, the decision to draw up a project-related development plan and to change the land use plan accordingly was accepted unanimously.

Michael Lechner (FWG) also dismissed concerns about the supply of biomass: "We have enough wood in the region." In general, there are many customers "who are all waiting because they have old heating systems".

Erhard Pohl (CSU) stated that one should not make a rush job.

"We all bear responsibility for this far-reaching decision." It will be a complex issue for generations.

"Here, thoroughness comes before speed."

ddy