In their current meeting place, the children and young people have no light, no heating and no toilets. After several moves, the “Marco Polo” scouts are now looking for another room – preferably in Pasing-Obermenzing.
In the trailer at Lucia-Popp-Bogen 57 it is dark at 5 p.m. There is no light, no heating, no water, no toilet. The construction trailer and the associated lawn near the Langwied S-Bahn station have been the meeting point of the Pasing boy scouts “Marco Polo” for several months, and the railway made it available to them. “In the summer it was okay, too,” says Beatrix Hebler, the club’s chairwoman, known as “tribal leader” in Boy Scout jargon. But now, in winter, it is “no longer bearable” to hold group lessons there. Which is why the members are now urgently looking for a room.
Every Friday between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., three groups of children and young people between the ages of seven and 16 meet. They romp, play, chat or plan “trail trips” such as camps. All of this used to happen in the parish center of the Ascension Church in Pasing. Hebler, now 27, still likes to remember it. Four years ago, however, the scouts had to move out and found new shelter in St. Bartimaeus in Lochhausen.
This location is now also history; the dilapidated building was demolished in the spring to make way for rental apartments and an event hall that had been in demand for years. “Lochhausen was also too far for many, we lost a number of members during this time,” says Hebler. The scouts are now hoping to share a room in Pasing-Obermenzing, which is large enough for 10 to 15 children and ideally also has a kitchen, with another youth organization. As a fixed tribal seat. Complemented by a garage or basement compartment where groups can store their tents, poles and game materials.
Being a boy scout, says Hebler, provides education for life – “because you learn early on to take responsibility and to get involved with other people”. In Bavaria alone there are more than 50 local groups of the worldwide, interdenominational youth movement, 14 of them with a good 900 members in Munich.