Rottach-Egern: Hotel Max Bachmair fails with plans for a photovoltaic park

Created: 04/12/2022 15:14

The plan for the Hotel Bachmair am See envisaged building a PV system, wood chip heating, groundwater heat pump as well as an information barn and a petting zoo.

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Rottach-Egern – The majority of the municipal council in Rottach-Egern spoke out against an application by the Hotel Max Bachmair am See oHG.

In the most recent Rottach municipal council meeting, an application by the Hotel Max Bachmair am See oHG for the construction of a photovoltaic park in combination with a wood chip heating system and a petting zoo was up for decision.

The meeting was unusually well attended.

The reason for this was an application that employed many residents in the area between Fürstenstraße and Kißlinger Weg as well as on Pfarrer-Kronast-Weg.

The Hotel Max Bachmair am See oHG wanted to set up a photovoltaic system with wood chip heating and a groundwater heat pump as well as a petting zoo on the unused field between the Evangelical Church of the Resurrection and the Eiblwieser bicycle shop.

The system should produce around one megawatt of electricity per year and supply, for example, the surrounding households, the Protestant church and neighboring hotels.

In the case of the latter, for example, the Hotel Adolphine and the Bachmair am See would be in the immediate vicinity.

According to Rottach Mayor Christian Köck, the decision was not easy for the entire municipal council.

In a non-public meeting, the building contractor held an extensive presentation.

"The project was discussed very constructively, but also very controversially," reported Köck.

The whole thing was deepened in a retreat.

In addition, an agreement was reached with the district office and other authorities, who, however, would all be critical of the project.

Emission, nature and monument protection were cited as reasons for this.

“The project has a forward-looking character.

But it's also about sensible local planning and in our opinion we don't have to resort to activism, but you have to let the time work for you," said Köck.

"At the moment, based on the statements made by the authorities involved, we see the implementation as hopeless," the mayor continued.

Thomas Tomaschek (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) contradicted this assessment, after all the 17 municipalities in the district signed the declaration to be climate-neutral by 2035.

“We have the nuclear phase-out and the coal phase-out.

We don't want wind power and power lines.

We have to move and just get going.

And in this individual case, I would like to follow and approve the project by drawing up a development plan for a special energy area and then checking all the concerns of the monument protection or the neighbors," emphasized Tomaschek.

Mayor Köck replied that the course had already been set for certain relaxations in the future use of renewable energies.

"In one of the next meetings we will talk about changes to the statutes in Rottach." The mayor addressed the suggestion to the applicant himself that one should first examine an implementation on one's own properties.

"And in that case you don't have to sacrifice meadows and areas."

Mayor Köck: "Equal treatment is then left out."

In this context, Köck also received support from within its own ranks.

Anton Maier (CSU) explained that nature should not be spoiled with violence.

"We have so many roof areas on which photovoltaics has space and you should use them first." In this case, Stefan Niedermaier (BLITZ) is also concerned with equal treatment.

“In principle, I am enthusiastic about the idea.

What bothers me is when an external operator implements such a project in a local area where no one else is allowed to do anything.

Equal treatment is then left out.

In addition, the applicant advertised with many points that simply do not correspond to the truth.”

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In the final decision on the application, only Thomas Tomaschek, Michael Mayr (both Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) and Margit Lehnerer (SPD) voted for the project.

The application was rejected by a majority.