Wild campers pollute the Tyrolean natural idyll and react indignantly to controls
Created: 08/28/2022, 04:45 am
By: Markus Christandl
At Plansee in Tyrol (Austria), authorities can hardly keep up with reports.
Wild campers line the shore area and pollute nature.
Reutte/Ettal – The Plansee in Tyrol, picturesquely situated west of the Graswang valley, enchants with its clear water and mountain panorama.
But all around the idyll in Austria, the fight for a few square meters of the Ausserfern is raging, because the areas on the campsites are "bang full" at the moment, says the head of the mountain rescue service for the Reutte district, Albert Kerber.
With the effect that he and his volunteer colleagues have to go out in the evening to create order in the tangle of smaller and larger mobile homes, bivouac bags and tents.
They're all wild campers here, and they're driving the mountain rescue team's conservationists to the brink of exhaustion.
Campers and motorhomes are lined up side by side at the roadside at Lake Plansee in Tyrol.
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Tyrol: wild camping is forbidden at the Plansee – there is a risk of a fine of 220 euros
As in Bavaria, wild camping is also prohibited in Tyrol.
At the Plansee, there is an ad for the sinners, which entails a fine of 220 euros - "per person," says Kerber.
However, the fine is preceded by an administrative process.
Soon, however, the people from the mountain rescue service, who are not to be confused with mountain rescuers, will also be able to collect 70 euros per person immediately.
Even trying costs money.
Not yet when visitors park in parking spaces, but then when, for example, the blinds are lowered or camping chairs are arranged.
Blue water and mountains: Wild camping is prohibited at Lake Plansee in Tyrol (Austria).
© Bildverlag Bahnmüller/Plansee
Conservationists and mountain rescue outraged: Situation at the Plansee "unacceptable"
Kerber reports rubbish and stench from the need to defecate.
The wild campers even drain the dishwater into the lake.
In addition, the day-trippers have upgraded, reports Kerber.
"In the meantime, they are already standing on the gravel banks of the Lech with all-terrain mobile homes."
