Despite the energy crisis: EC Tegernsee aims to open the artificial ice arena
Created: 09/30/2022, 18:00
By: Gerti Reichl
At the beginning of December, when it is sufficiently cold, ice will be made again in the artificial ice arena in Tegernsee.
ECT chairman Andreas Gerold hopes so.
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The energy crisis also poses problems for operators of ice rinks.
Some have already announced that they will not be opening this year.
In Tegernsee, however, the aim is to open the artificial ice arena.
Tegernsee
– The energy crisis with its skyrocketing prices for gas and electricity also poses the question for operators of ice rinks: open this year or leave?
The Eissportclub Tegernsee (ETC) operates the artificial ice arena at the shooting range in Tegernsee, and he is also concerned with this question.
The board of directors will soon deal with the coming season in a committee meeting, Vice-Chairman Andreas Sossna reports when asked and adds: "Of course it would hurt us, especially for the children, if there was no ice cream this year." Finally children and young people would have suffered the most during the Corona crisis.
The pandemic forced the club to keep the arena closed in the 2019/2020 season. Operations continued in 2020/2021, but with restrictions such as wearing a mask and showing the Covid certificate.
Only electricity is required to make ice
Chairman Andreas Gerold is already making no secret of his opinion: "No ice cream, that's out of the question." So his tendency is clearly towards opening.
"We have a contract with the E-Werk Tegernsee, which fortunately runs beyond the winter," reports Gerold.
Which means that the E-Werk is bound to the agreed conditions.
“This means that the price of electricity cannot explode so much that we cannot open,” says Gerold.
As far as gas is concerned, it is only necessary for the club building, i.e. for heating and hot water.
Electricity is the only thing that plays a role in ice making, says Sossna.
Because electricity drives the cooling unit and the cooling coils on the pitch.
Whether the ice rink can go into operation depends primarily on the weather
But whether the ice rink will go into operation this year or not does not depend solely on the topic of energy.
"It depends on the weather," says Sossna and explains: "The surrounding trees are no longer allowed to bear leaves, because leaves on the ice surface would create a "heat bridge" and melt the ice.
Above all, the day and night temperatures must be correspondingly low, "around zero degrees," says Sossna.
Normally, the club aims to make ice cream for the beginning of December, "we will decide a week or two before that, depending on the weather."
EC Tegernsee will also advise on admission prices
Admission prices will also be decided at the meeting.
Until now, children and young people up to the age of 16 were allowed in for free, adults had to shell out two euros.
Whether and to what extent the entrance fee has to be adjusted is therefore still open.
If there is no regulation from the district office, ECT boss Andreas Gerold assumes that operations in the stadium will be up and running again this year.
Then the ice hockey hobby team could train again for the games in the "hobby league", curlers could aim for their "Daube" again, students and whole families could lace up their skates again.
Artificial ice arena: Advertising partners have not jumped off so far
While elsewhere the opening of ice rinks is on the brink, Andreas Gerold is now receiving inquiries from a number of ice hockey teams for training times in Tegernsee.
"They come from Rosenheim," reports Gerold, who is happy about more good news: business partners for the financially important perimeter advertising have not jumped off so far.
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