It remains with the demolition of the former slaughterhouse building on Karlstrasse.
The Penzberg building committee unanimously renewed an old city council resolution on Tuesday evening.
He had previously visited the building, which was erected in 1899, with Penzberg conservationists.
The preservationists campaigned in vain to reconsider the demolition.
Penzberg - Usually the doors of the former slaughterhouse are locked.
The municipal building has been empty since the laundry moved out of the front part of the house a few years ago.
The slaughterhouse itself has not existed for 50 years.
According to the town hall, the two apartments on the upper floor have not been rented for about ten years for fire protection reasons.
A corresponding sight was presented to the around 20 visitors on Tuesday during a tour.
The entrance of the former laundry led to a tiled hall of just over 200 square meters, next to a technical room, then up to the winding, narrow apartments and the uninsulated roof structure, and finally down to the basement.
What became clear: the building is dilapidated.
But that did not change the opposing view of representatives of the city and the monument association.
While some defended the planned demolition, others continued to see potential in the 122-year-old building.
The city and the monument association do not have a common denominator
Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) mentioned in the group that in the building complex - it is not a listed building - there is no insulation, the floors ("classic false floors") consist of wooden beams with plastered reed mats, that there is asbestos in the tiles and roof Material is located, the windows and pipes would have to be torn out and new walls and floors would have to be put in.
“From my point of view it is not worth preserving,” he said.
A renovation would mean "extremely high costs" for the fact that in the end you have rooms for two shops and two apartments.
Last week he spoke to the local newspaper about millions of euros.
In a renovation, he said, just like the old metropolitan cinema, only the outer walls would remain.
Ludwig Schmuck (CSU) added that there was moisture in the entire masonry and the substance was bad.
“We don't have the money that we would spend here in housing,” warned Armin Jabs (BfP).
Hardi Lenk (SPD) made a similar statement.
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In the former slaughterhouse there was an on-site meeting with the building committee and representatives of the monument association, on the right the board of the history path.
© Wolfgang Schörner
The representatives of the Association for Monument Preservation and Penzberg City History saw it differently.
After the tour, chairman Max Kapfer said that the city was “facing an important threshold”.
The aim is to preserve one of the last old houses.
He asked for the demolition to be reconsidered (“please do not rush”) and suggested that “an expert report” be used to examine how the building can be preserved.
He also referred to the veterinarian and author Renate Ross-Rathe, who had worked and lived there.
A memorial site could be created in the great hall.
Günther Pfannkuch said that a workshop or a meeting point for young people could be created in the shed behind the building (“an absolutely brilliant ensemble”) and the forecourt could be designed with trees and benches.
"The Penzbergers will love it." Basically, he can understand the arguments of the city, so Pfannkuch.
“But this is one of the last old public buildings next to the train station and town hall.” Young people could be shown how life was 100 years ago.
Whereupon city architect Justus Klement objected that the city was "already taking care of its buildings and history".
The Weilheim architect Heiko Folkerts proposed an architectural competition to determine the potential.
And Waltraud Kraehe even thought the house was easy to renovate, which the city politely but definitely questioned.
Construction committee renews old city council resolution - the demolition is coming
The decision in the building committee was then no surprise.
Martin Janner (PM) wavered and suggested drawing up a list of old buildings with which the city “will have similar problems in the next few years”.
In the end, however, the committee unanimously renewed the city council resolution of August 2020. The demolition is planned for this spring.
Thereafter, a temporary parking lot is to be created on the area until a new building is built, probably residential development.
At the on-site meeting there was talk of 30 apartments.