Preservation of nature: District of Miesbach secures landscape protection areas

Created: 2022-12-21 06:03

By: Fridolin Thanner

The Schliersee and its surroundings are one of six landscape protection areas in the district.

You are now secured.

© Fridolin Thanner

District – The landscape protection areas in the district of Miesbach have hardly existed in their previous form.

Therefore, the district council dealt with the topic again.

It's about nothing less than preserving the beauty of local nature.

But the six landscape protection areas in the district have hardly survived in their current form.

Therefore, in its most recent meeting, the district council decided to lift it and then to temporarily secure it.

A judgment by the administrative court on the Saurüssellm in Bad Wiessee has shown - although it is not yet legally binding - that the landscape protection area ordinances are "both formally and materially ineffective", as Matthias Fuchs, deputy department head at the district office, explained.

In order to maintain the status quo, the existing ordinances should be repealed and new ones issued to secure the planned protected areas.

The aim is to re-designate the six landscape protection areas "Schliersee and surroundings", Tegernsee and surroundings", "Egartenlandschaft around Miesbach", "Spitzingsee and surroundings", "Oberstes Leitzachtal and its surroundings near Bayrischzell" and "Weißachtal".

"We're not doing anything new, the protected areas are already there," emphasized District Administrator Olaf von Löwis.

He considers the security to be an “important signal”.

Gerhard Waas (Greens) also sees it that way and also emphasized: "This creates a great responsibility." The process must "be brought to a good end" in the next two years, he said.

By then, new protected area ordinances must be drawn up.

"Securing is the right way," agrees Klaus Thurnhuber.

"Now we have a little time for the new edition," he explained.

The municipal company Regionalentwicklung Oberland (REO) must also use the next few months to work on a trail offer for mountain bikers.

Because, as far as possible, mountain bikers should only be allowed to ride on alpine and forest paths and designated routes in the protected areas.

The order to the REO was part of the district council decision, which only the three members of the Bavarian party rejected.

"For me, this is a massive encroachment on property rights," said spokesman Martin Beilhack.

He considers the landscape protection areas to be superfluous in view of various regulations such as building law and nature conservation laws.