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Matthias Köpf, Bad Wiessee
Fords have gone a bit out of fashion for crossing bodies of water. There should actually be a bridge nowadays, because of dry feet. And the foundations for the bridge would have been there long ago, at least a year and a half. But now this heavily fortified ford instead. It has been there since summer 2021 at the latest. It was just never approved, in contrast to the bridge, whose approval had been extended a few times.
But how it is in the hinterland of Bad Wiessee, where the building materials contractor and large landowner Franz Josef Haslberger had the former Söllbachaualm opened up to the so-called Saurüsselalm: The municipal council should open the new ford through the Söllbach for automobile access at the end of 2021 and very Tegernsee Excursion destination subsequently approved. Only this time he preferred to talk about the ownership of the bridge foundations.
But not because the reason for the two abutments would belong to the municipality itself. After all, practically everything up there belongs either to Haslberger or to the state forests. And it seems to be exactly the same with the abutments. Haslberger seems to have built at least one of them on his own land. The other is in any case cause for murmurs in the municipal council. The two large landowners have in any case become entangled over the years like two 12-pointers during the rut. For example, for a long time no one has seen the heavy timber trucks of the state forest drive the short way out of the state forest via Haslberger’s forest roads, but rather on fairly long and steep detours via Kreuth.
Whether the Wiesseer councils will officially find out much is open. But they put off the subsequent decision about the ford for so long and proceeded differently than they did recently with the guest terrace that was too large and the giant awning on the Saurüssellm, which was also not approved. They didn’t approve of it, but initially “tolerated” it until the Administrative Court decided on two appeals by Haslberger and the Association for the Protection of the Mountain World. If the VGH allows the appeal, the ongoing dispute over the entire Saurüssselalm will end up in the next instance anyway.