Athletes in the Weilheim-Schongau district are allowed to be "warm showers" again

Created: 12/28/2022, 10:00 am

By: Andreas Jäger

A warm shower after training is now allowed again for all athletes in the district.

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The Weilheim-Schongau district office and the city of Weilheim are withdrawing the regulation to turn off the hot water

District

– "Bravery is required: From now on, the hot water will not only be turned off in the gyms for which the city of Weilheim is responsible, but also in those of the district and the clubhouse of TSV Weilheim": This unpleasant news for the athletes in the region our newspaper reported in mid-October.

Now, two months later, the measure to save energy has been withdrawn.

“In the autumn, this regulation appeared to be sensible, effective and unproblematic in its implementation.

However, the district of Weilheim-Schongau, the city of Weilheim and TSV Weilheim were alone in making this decision," admits Klaus Mergel, spokesman for the district office.

Neither other municipalities in the district nor other districts in the region have taken this step.

They were the exceptions

"At the beginning of December we received the letter from the district office to withdraw the regulation.

Shortly thereafter, the city of Weilheim joined,” says Dieter Pausch, chairman of TSV Weilheim.

In conversation with other sports directors from Peißenberg, Schongau or Peiting, he also noticed that warm showers are everywhere, just not in Weilheim and the sports facilities sponsored by the district.

However, permission to take a warm shower does not mean that energy-saving measures no longer apply.

For example, TSV Peiting emphasized that athletes were encouraged to take shorter showers than usual.

At TSV Peißenberg, the athletes should be made aware of energy-saving behavior with signs such as "Take a quick shower!" or "Lights off!".

Furthermore, in autumn it was decided to lower the sports hall lighting and temperature.

Only 17 degrees in the halls

It is also colder when doing sports in the gyms of the city of Penzberg.

"First we lowered the room temperature to 19 degrees, now it's even gotten to 17 degrees," says Thomas Kapfer, deputy head of the volunteer and club promotion department in Penzberg.

However, Kapfer emphasizes that turning off the hot water was never an issue: "After extensive testing, the city administration came to the conclusion that the energy saving issue had only been shifted to the private sector, where more people would have showered instead.

So you wouldn’t have saved anything with it.”

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