Austria
Role models Asia and Africa: Autobahn racing facilities are said to have more Hock toilet
Sitting instead of sitting: A toilet revolution runs on Austrian motorway service sites. Does she also come to Germany?
The Austrian motorway company ASFINAG is more and more equipping its rest stops with stool toilets. They are now part of the “standard planning for the rest areas”, the building manager Elfriede Mayr told Austrian radio (ORF).
So far, this form of the toilets is rather unused in Central Europe. Among other things, travelers could have met with her in the Arab region or Southeast Asia. Instead of sitting on a toilet glass, the use takes place crouching over a hole in the floor. Experts repeatedly emphasize that this form of intestinal emptying is healthier – it can also be less touching and thus more hygienic.
For ASFINAG, however, the variant has other advantages. It is more vandalis -proof than a seat toilet and also better kept clean. “With the cleaning lance, it is definitely easier to clean. We clean our rest areas on average five times a day,” said Mayr. There are “good feedback from the motorway master, from the cleaning staff, but also from the customers”.
Hock toilet also on motorways in Germany?
How many of the Austrian rest areas have now been equipped with HOCK toilets was not quantified, it is only clear that their number is increasing. Conventional seat toilets should continue to exist.
In Germany, the tank-& rest daughter Sanifair runs a large part of the paid toilets on the highways-here the customers do not have to get used to it. “Projects in this area are currently not planned,” says a spokesman for the tank & rest group starRequest with.
The federal Autobahn GmbH is responsible for the free toilets in the motorway parking spaces in this country. An answer to a corresponding request was still available on Thursday afternoon.
Read too: “‘Culture-sensitive toilet’: Why Cologne about a stool toilet”
Sources: Sanifair, Autobahn GmbH
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Source: Stern
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