Ottenhofen Castle is looking for a new owner again

Everything at the beginning at Ottenhofen Castle?

Ottenhofen - After the insolvency of the owner, the Vivono cooperative in Miesbach, the insolvency administrator Birgitt Breiter tries to win a prospect for the property, but is struggling with it.

In 2017 the cooperative bought the property from the municipality for just over a million euros. According to media reports, the cooperative's insolvency had already emerged in February, and the crash came in April. The reasons for this are dark, but the Vivono cooperative gives the municipality of Ottenhofen a complicity in the debacle, which mayor Nicole Schley (SPD) firmly rejects.

On request, insolvency administrator Breiter said: "The municipality has made a development plan completely surprisingly." She is in close contact with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, which also finds the development "a shame". You now have the task of realizing the property in order to be able to reasonably satisfy the creditors. However, investors who are interested in the historic building should have planning security, the lawyer points out: "The way it looks, it is difficult." Vivono's plans had been coordinated with the municipality and the state office from the outset, insolvency administrator Breiter claims.

Mayor Schley sees it a little differently. In September 2018, the municipal council passed the change decision and thus entered the process. The reason was massive deviations from the development plan, which were included in a building application by the owners. "We only got into the process for them, and now should we be to blame for the bankruptcy?" Schley asks, shaking his head. She adds that the insolvency administrator also takes a more moderate stance here, which confirms this. "I don't want to cut the tablecloth with the community," insolvency administrator Breiter emphasizes. Only, of course, it had interests to represent, and those were those of the creditors. In order to satisfy them, she would have to have the desired certainty of action quickly, but this is precisely what the mayor cannot promise.

According to her report, the construction management process turns out to be “extremely difficult”. Schley rejects any attempts to share the proceedings, especially by the Monument Office, for fundamental reasons. She wanted the castle grounds to be considered as one unit. She insists on the planning sovereignty of the community, which she does not let out of her hands.

The mayor is completely incomprehensible that the state monument office wanted to grant the castle owners a border distance of only 1.5 meters. Both the mayor and the insolvency administrator unanimously report that the monument authorities had waved through Vivono's plans. The mayor does not want to think that everyone must keep a legal distance of three meters, but not Vivono. The construction committee had already lowered its thumb during a site visit in July 2018. The situation seems to be going wrong.

Klaus Kuhn