Burials are becoming more expensive in Amperstadt.
As of January 1st next year, the fees are expected to be increased significantly.
In the future, 1670 euros will be paid for a single earth grave - previously it was 933 euros.
Family earth graves rise by 534 euros to 2400 euros.
Olching
- An urn niche for two urns will cost 1,440 euros in the future, previously 852 euros had to be leafed out for it.
An earth urn grave for four urns is even said to be 1757 euros more expensive and will cost 2610 euros in the future.
The main committee decided on these prices, which should apply up to and including 2024, with a majority against the votes from the CSU.
The city council still has the last word on Tuesday.
The debate
Tomas Bauer (CSU) wanted the state of the cemeteries to be improved before the fees were increased.
A situation that he criticized as "unfortunate" and his parliamentary colleague Maximilian Gigl as "catastrophic".
Gigl also called for “a proper cemetery” where weeds do not sprout everywhere and spoke out in favor of equipping the building yard with staff for this.
Andreas Hörl (CSU) demanded that the cost of an art object and the monument to the honorary citizen of Olching, Ernst Raadt, should not be included in the fee calculation.
Raadts was active as a district administrator from 1947 with interruption until 1964 and converted the Geiselbullach estate, as it is called in Wikipedia, into a model estate.
He also campaigned for the Graßlfinger Moos to be protected.
Tomas Bauer also complains that 253,000 euros for the redesign of old cemeteries, in particular to turn the old Olching cemetery into a park cemetery, and a further 55,000 euros for the work of art were included in the calculation.
“Neither of these belong in the grave fees,” he made clear.
Reactions
Criticism that could be partially successful.
Mayor Andreas Magg (SPD) promised to think about deducting the costs for the Raadt monument from the calculation.
The majority rejected the CSU's proposal not to include the maintenance of the vacant grave areas in the old cemetery, which are now used as a park, in the calculation.
Marina Freudenstein (Greens) accused the CSU: “You evade your responsibility”.
She stressed that increasing the cemetery fees was no fun.
It could lead to "making yourself unpopular with the population".
However, the city is obliged to raise the fees according to the costs incurred.
Ingrid Jaschke (Greens) reminded that the fees were last increased in 2013.
Andreas Teichmann (FDP) also criticized the CSU.
If the city did more in the cemeteries, the costs and with them the fees would continue to increase.
And Ewald Zachmann (FWO) was convinced that it was not the fees but something else, such as an expensive coffin, that made a funeral expensive.
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