Mayor Christian Köck (left) had even scheduled an on-site visit at the Voitlhof to show the problematic situation. © Thomas Plettenberg
The way to the public toilet at the Rottach-Egerner Voitlhof resembles a "parcours": plant troughs and parked cars force visitors to take a detour via the terrace of the inn. The building committee has now met for an on-site visit.
Rottach-Egern – The accessibility of the public toilet facility in Feldstraße near the Voitlhof has already been criticized several times in the town hall and discussed in the municipal council. Now the members of the local planning committee have come to see for themselves. They found that not only the access road is obstructed, but that the signage has also disappeared. The population is no longer aware that there is a public toilet in the Voitlhof at all.
Access to the toilet facility just below the driveway
Mayor Christian Köck made this clear in the subsequent meeting – the public toilet was explicitly taken into account in the planning of the centre on Feldstraße. After all, visitors to the playground, the tennis courts and the miniature golf course, the museum and the traditional costume shop, as well as passing walkers and cyclists should have the opportunity to use a toilet at the site. From the very beginning, it was envisaged that the users would walk over the land of the inn, which had been leased to the landlord by the municipality. Access to the toilet facility is located in a passage just below the driveway to the threshing floor on the side of the restaurant. On the other side of the building, which belongs to the municipality and houses the tennis parlour, the shooters and, in the basement, the ripening cellar of the natural cheese dairy, there is access to the underground car park, which is also used by the host family.
"Course not to be expected"
In view of the plant troughs including garden decorations, which were set up around the passageway, Koeck found: "Accessibility to the toilet facility is really difficult". Due to the plant troughs and parked cars, it is almost impossible to get to the passage to the toilets. You are virtually forced to walk around the driveway and over the terraces of the inn. "In particular, people with disabilities or wheelchair users cannot be expected to take such a 'course'," explained Köck.
He was also annoyed by the Voitlhof landlord, whom he otherwise praised as a good and reliable partner for the Café Gäuwagerl opposite. He would apparently use even the only disabled parking space, right next to the driveway to the threshing floor and just in front of the said passage, more often and longer and not only for loading and unloading goods. During the meeting, Koeck appealed to put aside one's own interests in the interests of good cooperation and to enable better access to the toilet facility. It is up to the other side to clean up the imbalance and accommodate the community. "The toilets must be easy for the general public to use and take the shortest route," Köck clarified.
Accessibility is a must
All committee members felt the same way. Deputy Mayor Josef Lang (CSU) grumbled that the situation was clearly regulated, and speculated that the signs pointing to the public toilet had been dismantled. Anastasia Stadler (CSU) was also bothered by the "whole graffel" that blocked access to the toilet in the passageway: "Accessibility is a must." She suggested that this should be contractually regulated, while parliamentary group colleague Alexandra Wurmser urged that the disabled parking space be kept free: After all, the underground car park had been built so large at the time that the host family and their employees could also find space in it.
Gabriele Schultes-Jaskolla (FWG), however, justified the inaccessibility for wheelchair users in the passage with a toilet door installed the wrong way round. Here, on the advice of Klaus Fresenius (FWG), the disability commissioners of the municipality and district, Arnold Lindner and Gerhard Henrikus, were to be consulted once again.
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The committee members were unanimous in their favour of this. Likewise for new signage and "if necessary, a contract adjustment".