Whether anyone there on Sylt is afraid of the island becoming Tegernsee must remain open, because perhaps some islanders harbor such fears secretly. The other way around, however, has long been concerned about the so-called Syltisation at Tegernsee.
The mayor of Tegernsee, Johannes Hagn, has publicly warned against this Syltisation at least since his first CSU-internal candidacy in 2013, quite prominently about the increase in the local second home tax in 2018. Most recently, only a few weeks ago in an interview with the local newspaper, Hagn reiterated that Tegernsee is “not the Sylt of the south”. That’s good, because otherwise the new Tegernsee whiskey cutter could have stayed on Sylt right away.
The Lantenhammer distillery from nearby Hausham set off the ship up there in Germany’s far north. Lantenhammer has been brewing a whiskey for a long time, which is named after the local Schliersee with the heavily sloughing “Slyrs”. Now the former gentian distillers have acquired a stake in “Sylt Destillerie GmbH” and its island brand “Sild”. Part of this deal is also the transfer of a former shrimp cutter from the port in List on Sylt to the Tegernsee.
The Sylt whiskey matured in the cutter last, for which another ship is bobbing in the harbor. The soon-to-be-Tegernsee shrimp cutter is just being revamped before it is supposed to roll towards the mountains on a low-loader. At and in the Tegernsee it is supposed to moor as a “whiskey and event boat” in front of a Bad Wiesse hotel, which already has a supposedly “unique event location” in the form of a boat house.
Those involved think that fits, but of course it does not suit everyone. The protection association Tegernseer Tal, for example, has long been allergic to the word “event” alone and recognizes that the whole cutter is a “pure advertising campaign for a drink that is completely atypical for Bavaria”. In addition to the Syltisation, which the protection community has now promptly complained about, there is apparently a threat of the lake becoming Scottish. Perhaps, however, instead of Slyrs and Sild, a Degansea could be brought to maturity in the cutter, if not a real, smoky Loch Deaghan.