The Saurüsselalm becomes an illegal building – Bavaria

Whether this is really needed now is a question that often only arises afterwards. That is, when the cheese has been bitten – or in this specific case, when the beef tartare has been enjoyed and the truffle pizza has been eaten. In 2023, a total of almost 60,000 tartares, truffle pizzas, but also sausage salads or Obazde were consumed in the Saurüsselalm on Lake Tegernsee, along with almost 100,000 drinks. The lawyers of the Freising building materials entrepreneur and Bad Wiesseer Alm builder Franz Haslberger presented these figures to the Bavarian Administrative Court to prove that the Gastro-Alm, which opened at the end of 2021 at a good 1,000 meters above sea level in the hinterland of Bad Wiessee, is really needed to supply all the day-trippers, tourists and mountain sports enthusiasts there.

But the judges have practically dismissed these arguments. Such an urgent need for supplies would have been absolutely necessary in order to make the conversion of the once lonely Söllachaualm, which was only frequented by livestock, into the rather eventful Saurüsselalm a so-called privileged project under building law. However, on Thursday the court announced that it would judge the building permit for the Saurüsselalm issued by the Miesbach district office to be unlawful, thus overturning a different first-instance ruling from 2022.

In view of this, Haslberger, who was sitting at the back of the room, had his lawyers issue an apparently prepared statement and thereby withdraw the entire planning application. Haslberger, a large landowner on the other side of the valley who needs peace and quiet, said that he himself did not need the Saurüsselalm anyway. Rather, he had only responded to requests from the municipality to satisfy their need for a tourist offer and the tourists’ need for catering.

The association for the protection of the mountains, which had filed a lawsuit against the permit, is of the opinion that the Saurüsselalm sets a precedent for the increasing eventization of the mountains and that without the new offer, all the guests would never have come to the previously much quieter Söllbachtal. In view of the expected verdict, the association rejected the offer to almost completely forego the particularly controversial evening events with shuttle bus service.

However, neither the noble caterer Martin Frühauf, the hut’s owner, nor the owner Haslberger seem to want to give up the entire Saurüsselalm. After the negotiations, the latter announced that they were now relying on “a constructive exchange between the district administrator, the municipality and the association”. One possibility is that the municipality could possibly save the project by means of a development plan – then with the formal involvement of environmental associations such as the Association for the Protection of the Mountain World from the outset. Frühauf will soon be cooking up a storm in the Söllbachklause anyway, a restaurant much closer to the village that Haslberger has also partly built based on taste rather than approval. This will probably be able to meet the needs of some day-trippers without a 45-minute hike up the mountain.

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