As of: February 26, 2024, 8:52 a.m
By: Dieter Roettig
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The mountain cemetery in the St. Georgen district of Dießen does not have barrier-free access, but it does have disabled parking spaces.
In order to change that, the market town of Dießen wants to provide a lot of money.
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For years, older citizens, people with walking disabilities with walkers or wheelchairs and parents with strollers from the St. Georgen district have been complaining about the difficult access situation to the local cemetery.
The walled hilltop cemetery on a tuff rock, which is actually the oldest burial site in Dießen, can only be reached via two non-barrier-free entrances.
Dießen/St.
Georgen - One of these entrances is on the eastern side and leads over a long wooden staircase.
On the west side, visitors can only access the cemetery grounds via several stone steps.
This means that grave visits or regular grave maintenance are not possible for many people.
The partially dilapidated outer wall contradicts a simple solution, but is nevertheless completely under monument protection, according to Mayor Sandra Perzul.
Following suggestions from the Dießen market town council, the building administration worked intensively on testing barrier-free access.
In coordination with the State Office for Monument Preservation, a solution has now been presented by architect Andrea Schmeller.
A barrier-free path of around 30 meters in length and a maximum gradient of six percent is possible on the western side around the mortuary.
This variant was supported at an on-site visit with Pastor Josef Kirchensteiner, church caretaker Wolfgang Linke and senior representative Antoinette Bagusat.
The monument protection department also agreed to open the cemetery wall at one point.
With a vote of 23:2, the market town council approved the static test and the further steps regarding approval planning.
Budget funds of 50,000 euros have been made available for this alone.
For implementation, around 250,000 euros would have to be raised, as local councilor Florian Zarbo (Free Voters) roughly calculated.
This is clearly too much for colleague Gabriele Übler (Greens), who would prefer to leave the implementation to the municipal building yard.
Colleague Johann Rieß (Free Voters) asked, despite the monument protection veto, to have an elevator variant on the western stone staircase examined again.