Gemeinde Grainau
Municipality Grainau
(General information on all sectors of competence and degree of administrative capacity).
Mr. Andreas Hildebrandt
1. Mayor
Decision-maker, responsible for all tasks in general
(National language and English translation).
Trade Unit
(Information on specific competences, policies and services).
see above
Good practise examples
Support to Grainau
WP 5-7
(The WP must have internal rules? Which ones? How do you see the role of the WP responsible? How do you think exchange of experiences within the WP should be promoted? What could be the ways to structure the WP: distinct meetings, news by email? Others?).
General information flow
Not made up work and financial reports, which have to be passed to the partners on time
Keep the survey of the whole project
(What are the administrative levels within the region for different policy, planning, and project purposes? What are the different competences within these areas? What is the relationship between these levels and the small towns? The mountains?).
(Examples: what part is covered by mountains, what are the types of mountain (high, medium, low), which is the quota of the population living in mountain areas, what is the role of the mountain areas in the regional economy, etc.).
Very high mountains - the Zugspitze - highest peak of Germany.
An extremely important role for the tourism.
(Examples: size, hierarchy, demographic and economic changes, main social and economic problems).
size: 3704 inhabitants; small village in our region
100 years ago, Grainau was a pure agricultural area, which now has developed to an economically mono-structured region, with an exceptional dependency on tourism in the past 70-80 years. Due to the mentioned focus on the tourism sector and also because of the changed living habits of the population, various problems in the village have resulted. The retail sector partially disappeared, so that the basic provision of the inhabitants with goods by the local shops is not ensured anymore.
A research concerning the retail structure in Grainau from the year 2003 showed that 75% of the local inhabitants purchase power drains off to surrounding cities. If no counter measures will be taken, this trend will continue. The majority of the working population commutes daily. This situation even has been made worse by the fact that the trade sector had to register a considerable lack of work places in the last years. Several employees even commute to Munich daily. Also in this field, no trend reversal can be noticed.
Gemeinde Grainau - 3.704 inhabitants.
Replacement of the two centres of Grainau.
Setting up of specific cross conections.
(Examples: symbolic values attached to the mountains, level of attractiveness for residential and/or leisure time activities, level of repulsiveness, differences among community and social groups. Please comment your replies!)
The symbolic value of the mountains, specific the symbolic of the Zugspitze, is quite high - it is the symbolic for Grainau, as we call us "Das Zugspitzdorf" (the Zugspitz village).
(Is there a specific legislation concerning mountain areas? E.g. national, regional, other levels. What are the main points? Please indicate also the references and dates. Besides legal instruments, is there a specific partner's political approach vis-ŕ-vis the mountains? What are the objectives? What are differences with other areas/regions?).