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"Does not fit our mission statement": Bavarian community outlaws fireworks

2022-08-09T03:55:57.127Z


"Does not fit our mission statement": Bavarian community outlaws fireworks Created: 2022-08-09 05:49 By: Christine Merk Undesirable with immediate effect: The municipality of Weyarn no longer wants fireworks like the one here in 2019 at the lake festival in Tegernsee, but it cannot ban them either. © tp Commercial fireworks will be banned in Weyarn in the future. This has no legal consequences


"Does not fit our mission statement": Bavarian community outlaws fireworks

Created: 2022-08-09 05:49

By: Christine Merk

Undesirable with immediate effect: The municipality of Weyarn no longer wants fireworks like the one here in 2019 at the lake festival in Tegernsee, but it cannot ban them either.

© tp

Commercial fireworks will be banned in Weyarn in the future.

This has no legal consequences.

The ban is intended to express a basic attitude of the municipality.

Weyarn

– If fireworks are set off in or around Weyarn on a weekend, Mayor Leonhard Wöhr can wait on Monday for complaints to be received by telephone.

Even on vacation, someone called him at home about fireworks.

That's what the mayor said at the city council's recent meeting.

He therefore wanted to explore the political will of the committee and put up for discussion whether the community wanted to ban commercial fireworks in the future.

Weyarn outlaws fireworks: Opinions in the municipal council differ

The municipality cannot ban them.

Commercial fireworks do not have to be approved, Wöhr explained.

Only registered, and not in the town hall, but with the government of Upper Bavaria.

A ban therefore has no legal consequence, but the administration could at least reject support for commercial fireworks with such a statement from the municipal council.

Opinions within the panel differed.

Albert Zinsbacher (CSU), Angelika Viellechner (FW) and Martin Fertl (UWG) found the number of fireworks in Weyarn manageable and therefore did not consider a ban to be necessary.

Second Mayor Franz Demmelmeier (SPD) said the community should announce that they didn't want fireworks.

His parliamentary colleague Betty Mehrer saw the community - also with a view to environmental protection - as having a duty to set an example and say "that it is important to us not to blow up fine dust and not to scare animals".

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Finally, Philipp Eikerling (Greens) emphasized what the mayor had already mentioned: the political will.

"It's not just about fireworks, but about the political attitude of the municipal council," he said.

Eikerling found that fireworks were not up to date and would not fit in with the community's mission statement.

Anton Zwickl (CSU) was torn.

"I don't like fireworks, but I'm also against banning everything at once," he explained.

"If society needs it, then so be it." Anian Rutz (UWG) disagreed.

"Sometimes a society needs rules." With private fireworks, the question also arises: "How many benefit from them?" That is something different than, for example, the rockets on New Year's Eve or fireworks at a folk festival.

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Anschie Hacklinger (Greens) pleaded for a ban, because a municipal council is also there to "announce an opinion".

And Florian Holzmann-Penzenstadler (CSU) thought that fireworks didn't have to be in a community in the great outdoors and with a lot of wildlife.

After the discussion, it was not clear in which direction a decision would be made.

Wöhr therefore proposed three alternatives: that the municipality remain neutral or not support commercial fireworks or be against all fireworks.

Demmelmeier pleaded for a quick decision and presented alternative two as an application.

It was finally approved by the municipal council with nine to five votes.

You can find more current news from the district of Miesbach, Holzkirchen and the Tegernsee region at Merkur.de/Holzkirchen.

Source: merkur

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