Laura Dahlmeier: Park names home community after her

The Kurpark in Garmisch-Partenkirchen is renamed in honor of Laura Dahlmeier. The local council of Dahlmeier’s hometown of Garmisch-Partenkirchen said that the tragically crashed biathlete wanted to devote a permanent memory, the municipal council of Dahlmeier’s hometown of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The 31-year-old Dahlmeier died in mountaineering in Pakistan at the end of July. The two-time biathlon Olympic champion and seven-time world champion was on the road with her rope partner at Laila Peak when she was hit by rockfall at an altitude of 5,700 meters.

According to her management, Dahlmeier had ordered that in the event of her death, her body should not be recovered if helper would be in mortal danger when rescue.

“The fact that we are now permanently named the park, in which Laura was often celebrated and which she has closely connected to her homeland, is a clear commitment to our community. The” Laura-Dahlmeier-Park “will be a place of commemoration, gratitude and inspiration-for today’s and upcoming generations,” said the first mayor Elisabeth Koch. Dahlmeier’s family also expressly wished that the park bears its name. A solemn inauguration is planned for the next few weeks.

People can mourn at a temporary memorial in the Kurpark in Partenkirchen. The memorial with a picture on a wooden stele, lantern and a stone from the domestic mountains including a badge was spontaneously built a few weeks ago.