There has been talk about a bypass road in Altenmarkt an der Alz for decades. The planning for the second phase is now complete, but many critics have long been asking themselves whether something like this can still be contemporary.
The painting in the meeting room of the town hall dates from 1947 and shows Altenmarkt with the former Baumburg monastery seen from the small hamlet of Nock. The ideas that are once again discussed in the room are hardly younger than the picture. The first newspaper articles are said to have appeared in the 1950s, and planning has been going on since the 1970s. The Traunstein State Building Authority only submitted the documents for the plan approval process two years ago. And if what the planners have drawn is actually built, the landscape in the painting will no longer be recognizable. Instead of the green meadows and fields, a wide, gray band of asphalt and concrete will stretch more than six kilometers across the hilly land between the Alz and the Traun. But outside the door it would finally be a little quieter.