Parking at the barbecue: City is going against wild campers!

Parking at the barbecue: City is going against wild campers!

Hernals, Österreich - The parking lot in front of the popular barbecue area Rohrerbadwiese in Hernals is the focus of urban measures. In view of the high temperatures, those seeking relaxation flock to the natural areas such as the Danube and the Wienerwald. In order to defuse the situation at the parking lot, a night parking ban was introduced, which applies daily from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. This happened after the MA 49 reported on problems with parked camping buses and residential trailers who blocked the square overnight. There is also an additional parking ban on Tuesdays between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. to enable maintenance and cleaning work.

Ilona Hadasch from the MA 46 informed that the measure goes back to the initiative of the municipal forest administration and the district. These steps are intended to ensure that the parking lot is again available to day trippers, athletes and walkers. The background to the measures is the disregard for the previous parking regulations, which allowed unlimited and free use of the parking lot. This procedure in turn resulted in negative effects on the fauna and flora in the Wienerwald, as district manager Peter Jagsch emphasized.

Problems and solutions

"The situation has calmed down", expresses MA 49, which is responsible for monitoring the new parking ban together with the state police department and parking space monitoring. Nevertheless, there were massive impurities around the Neuwaldegger Grillplatz that can no longer be accepted. The district head emphasizes that there is currently no sufficient infrastructure for campsites, for example in terms of toilets or water. This leads to additional challenges because many wild campers choose this place, regardless of nature.

In terms of wildcamping, it should be noted that in Austria it is as problematic to stay away from campsites far as in Germany, where wild camps are generally prohibited. Even if the bivouackation can be tolerated under certain conditions, the legal situation remains uncertain. So far, the storage has not been under the bans in most cases, which, however, leads to flowing transitions between these practices and complicates the legal assessment. Information on this can be found, for example, on Agrarheute .

an outlook

The urban measures are a step in the right direction to preserve the recreation room for residents and all nature lovers. District head Jagsch hopes that the new regulations will encounter only positive feedback from the population and that the parks will soon be able to offer more space for relaxation again without unwanted conditions such as flashed places or blocked parking spaces to be visited. The new night parking ban could turn out to be a decisive factor in order to better control the wild campers and make the parking lot accessible to the general public.

More about the background of these measures can also be found on Kurier Read.