As of: March 16, 2024, 6:00 a.m
By: Franziska Seliger
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The SGO swimmers wanted to swim laps in the sports pool - which they were almost denied.
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Because they do not want to pay the required fees for the use of the new Penzberg family pool “Piorama”, the SG Oberland recently went swimming privately with several children.
An approach that the municipal utilities do not want to tolerate.
Next Monday, March 18th, the situation could worsen further.
Penzberg – 100 euros per lane and hour: This is the fee that the municipal utility charges clubs for using the “Piorama” for training purposes.
For some clubs this is too expensive.
The Penzberg water rescue service and the SG Oberland swimming club (SGO), among others, continue to train in other indoor swimming pools in the region.
Club members wanted to swim in the pool “as a private group”.
A few days ago, SGO members tried to avoid the fees and still swim in the indoor pool.
As Jakob Schachtschneider from the association's board reports, he went to the bathroom early in the evening with a second colleague on the board, the mother of a member and eight children between the ages of 6 and 9 - "as private customers.
We had arranged to meet privately.”
The reason was that the Trimini in Kochel, where the SGO children have been training since the old Penzberg wave pool was closed, could not be used by the club in March.
That's why they planned to move to the "Piorama" "temporarily" and "with a manageable group" this month.
A week earlier, the SGO swam in the “Piorama” with 13 children.
But while everything went smoothly back then, this time the group was initially denied entry by “Piorama” operations manager Ludwig Schön;
among other things, on the grounds that the SGO swimmers would disrupt swimming operations.
“If we hadn't come as a group but had all gone in individually, they wouldn't have noticed,” said Schachtschneider.
After a discussion that lasted around five minutes, the operations manager let the group in.
However, with the note that this will no longer be possible next time.
Schachtschneider wants to accept that.
He has already canceled training for next Monday.
After the Easter holidays, training should take place again in Kochel anyway.
He didn’t want to “cheat his way in”.
And he said he wanted to avoid an open confrontation in front of the children.
SG chairman Wolfgang Kling sounds more controversial.
He was “horrified” by the manager’s behavior.
“That’s going a little too far for me.
We pay privately, we bathe privately.” This is also agreed with the parents.
This is not official training.
“My people instruct the children.
Private.” The 100 euros per train and hour, “we don’t pay that.”
SGO chairman is considering hiring a lawyer
Kling says he has already contacted Bayerischer Rundfunk to make the incident public.
He would like to go to the “Piorama” again next Monday, March 18th, with club members and representatives of the media.
If entry is denied, “I’ll go to a lawyer.”
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Those responsible for “Piorama” commented on the incident in a two-page letter.
It states that, from a structural and conceptual perspective, the pool was designed as a family pool and is not comparable to a pure school and club pool such as the Weilheim indoor pool.
In Penzberg, all user groups must be taken into account.
Municipal utilities are fighting back
The current bathing and usage regulations also stipulate that “any form of providing professional (even non-commercial) swimming lessons, training or other animation is only permitted with the prior approval of Stadtwerke Penzberg”.
In the event of a violation, the staff is entitled to prohibit swimming lessons or training.
The assessment of whether such user behavior exists is made by the pool staff.
This regulation serves, among other things, to create an occupancy plan that bathers can use to find out about the water areas they have booked.
The behavior of the SGO, which has been to the pool twice so far and “obviously” trained on a track, corresponds, in the opinion of the municipal utilities, to “a regular, recurring, organized and guided training operation”.
Schachtschneider's statement that it was a private group “cannot be shared by us (...)”.
Especially since Kling had already announced in an email to the municipal utilities in February that the swimming club would use the pool privately before competitions with up to 20 people.
The municipal utilities have already had several discussions with SG Oberland and the club has been accommodated with the training times.
However, Chairman Kling has so far rejected the offers.