The plans are linked with great hopes: a modern museum in the municipal building at Untermarkt 10 should attract locals and tourists to Wolfratshausen in the future.
Wolfratshausen
- The latter can then find out more about other offers in Wolfratshausen at the tourist information desk and stroll in a pretty shop.
This is still gray theory: In the building at Untermarkt 10, where all these facilities are to be built, nothing of the modern rooms can be seen.
The heavily polluted monument at Reiser-Eck is currently being renovated.
During a tour of the construction site, StäWo managing director Robert Alischer explains to our newspaper the progress of the 4.5 million euro project.
"Everything is going according to plan" on the construction site
The municipal housing company (StäWo) has been commissioned with its service GmbH to upgrade the property, which belongs to the municipality.
So far, according to Alischer, "everything is going according to plan".
In the historic building, however, planners and craftsmen repeatedly encounter smaller hurdles.
A point that had been discussed for a long time in advance was an elevator that should be attached to the outside of the building.
On the one hand, it should ensure barrier-free access to the local history museum and, on the other hand, facilitate transport.
The monument office ultimately gave this plan its blessing.
The StäWo is also planning to redesign the parking spaces on the open space of the property on which this elevator is to be built.
"Two parking spaces will be eliminated," says Alischer, and replaced with seating and trees to make the space appear more inviting.
At the moment the picture from the outside is not very pretty: high scaffolding surrounds the house, work is being carried out on the roof of the two building wings.
“We have to renew the insulation.
We want to insulate as much as possible on the house in order to also take into account the city's climate protection goals, ”says Alischer.
The monument office had forbidden to insulate the outer facade.
“But we can do something from above.” To do this, workers removed the bricks, applied insulation and covered the roof with new bricks after everything had been sealed.
Insulating floor slabs on the ground floor should insulate the house from below.
Specifications of the monument protection authorities were observed
During the tour, Alischer trudges over a floor made of pebbles, and most of the plaster on the walls has been removed.
Only the wall sections directly under the ceiling - pretty arches and domes - have been preserved.
“It was a stipulation of the monument office that we don't change that,” says Alischer, while standing in the large room that will later house the tourist information.
Pollutants that had to be removed from the walls were "mainly found in the plinth area".
The PAH values (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in the masonry had exceeded the limit value by 50,000 times.
Samples from the wall sections higher up and the upper floor, however, did not result in any pollution, according to the managing director.
"The monument office, the building administration, the museum officers - we have to keep in touch with many of those involved and coordinate with one another."
Robert Alischer, civil engineer and managing director of the municipal housing association
This is one of the reasons why work on the first floor is more economical.
The rooms in which until a few weeks ago the historical exhibits of the local history museum were still standing are almost completely empty.
A poster of King Ludwig II is still leaning against one wall, otherwise nothing reminds of the later use.
Although: That is not entirely true, because the building itself is worth an architectural history digression: At Untermarkt 10, for example, “17 different types of windows from different eras are installed”, explains Robert Alischer.
The historic pieces should all remain, demands the monument office.
Nevertheless, according to the civil engineer, the StäWo has to "bring it up to date".
There are "many small details that you have to pay attention to on this construction site - the windows are one of them".
On the upper floor, the workers are mainly improving the fire protection and electrics.
The latter is necessary in order to be able to furnish the local museum with interactive stations and multimedia forms of presentation in a more modern way.
That was the will of the city council.
“We still have to wait and see what the plan will look like in the end,” says Alischer, “then we can decide together with the city how the electronics will be equipped.” For the civil engineer, it is clear: “We have to completely redo it We cannot use old electrical engineering again. "
Many cooks do not spoil the broth in this case
When Alischer talks about the construction site, it becomes clear that his StäWo does not make the decisions there alone: “The monument office, the building administration, the museum officers - we have to stay in touch with many of those involved and coordinate things with one another.” So far, the many cooks have had enough but not spoiled - on the contrary: “It’s a good togetherness, and we’re on time and financially.” StäWo would like to hand over the building at the end of 2021.
The local history museum could then open in the summer of 2022, according to the culture committee.
Alischer is confident: "Even if there are always small surprises, it looks good that everything will work out."
So an odyssey would end well.
Because the prominent corner house has been waiting for a new use for a long time.
In 2014, a group of volunteers wanted to open a community shop in the former residence of the royal district court.
A referendum on St. Nicholas' Day brought this plan to an abrupt end.
Although the vote was positive for the initiators, the bottom line was that too few Wolfratshausers took part in the vote.
The city council then re-planned and ultimately decided to accommodate tourist information, a local museum, a multifunctional room for exhibitions and events, the city management department and a shop in the corner house with the characteristic turret.
All under one roof.
(dst)
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