When you walk through Schäftlarn, you get the feeling that many houses are empty.
“I would like to live here,” many people think to themselves.
However, a tour with Mayor Christian Fürst (CSU) shows: It's not that simple.
Schäftlarn
- The Hubertus Hotel on the B11, for example, is still in operation, the town hall chief knows. In 1899, the "local property" was built.
At the moment, the main tenants in the hotel wing are long-term tenants, and in the medium term, says Fürst, the building is also to be converted for residential purposes.
The space in front of the Gasthof zur Post is being renovated
The Gasthof zur Post is located further in the direction of Schäftlarn.
Fürst says the owners, the Widmann family, would like to set up the complex themselves, a big hurdle: the costs, which can certainly be in the tens of millions.
At least the area in front of the inn, where the Easter dance and May Day celebrations took place a few years ago, is now being renovated.
Great concept never implemented
The next property that keeps you puzzled: the Honeywell property on Benediktstrasse.
About ten years ago it was sold to a GmbH, nothing has happened since then.
“I don't understand it at all,” says Christian Fürst. Some time ago the owners presented the municipal council with a “great concept” for a mixed use of residential and commercial use. At that time, the plan was to add an additional floor to the building.
The plan was approved but unfortunately never implemented.
"The owners are probably interested in maximizing profits," says the town hall chief.
Some time ago the owners were also written to by the administration.
"There wasn't even an answer."
Create living space - but preserve local character
That would bring you to an important aspect of the whole housing misery: It is not forbidden in Bavaria to leave living space empty.
Accordingly, the municipality has no means whatsoever to persuade private individuals that they absolutely rent out the properties that they own.
A long time ago, however, the municipality began to counter the rising rental and property prices - and consistently created affordable living space.
There are currently 45 municipally subsidized apartments in the municipality, but there are still another 50 people on the list of potential buyers.
The last project was eight apartments that the community built itself on Stehbründlweg, the first building area to be re-designated since 2003.
They were moved into in December.
In addition, seven new community apartments are currently being built on Auenstrasse.
He sees another possibility of creating affordable apartments, says Fürst, on the property at Georgstrasse 8. There is now a parish hall with four apartments, if one were to build differently and more skilfully, there would be twice as much space.
Lots of ideas, but difficult to implement
Otherwise, old stock, if it has been inherited and none of the heirs can pay off the others, is sold and replaced by the new owners with a single-family house, a semi-detached house or a three-in-hand.
One of these little houses in the Tränkweg has just been demolished;
At the same time, the second building window that may exist in more and more gardens is being used.
Fürst says that the municipal council now wants to prevent the place from fraying any further - the plans for another series, for example on the other, still completely free side of the drinking path, which a few years ago still considered possible, have now been abandoned.
Fürst emphasizes that the committee attaches great importance to maintaining the character of the community.
One cannot replace a single-family house with an apartment building everywhere.
On the other hand, he also wants to prevent the community from degenerating into "Schachtelhausen" due to too many buildings that are too small.
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“If you are not lucky enough to have inherited, you will not get property in Schäftlarn”: Mayor Christian Fürst in front of the house on Stehbründlweg, in which the community has created eight apartments.
© Andrea Kästle
During the election campaign, Fürst had suggested that he could also imagine redensification in such a way that older owners of larger houses are encouraged to sublet part of their own homes that have become too large - perhaps as part of the “Housing for Help” project.
At the same time he had said that he was not opposed to a cooperative housing project.
Now he explains: “In the election campaign, the idea of encouraging people to rent out their properties was of course easy to say.
I don't know how I could implement that, one would have to create incentives for owners.
But that is definitely not a way of solving the big problems. ”In principle, he would approve of a cooperative project, the problem is the suitable property.
Land prices out of control
Houses that were thought to be empty - but which, as Fürst knows, are still inhabited, are the four-story villa in Zechstrasse, built by the entrepreneur Zech from Leipzig and the Köllner villa near the Ebenhausen S-Bahn.
In contrast, the listed farmhouse on Gerhart-Hauptmann-Weg, which was recently auctioned off by the original heirs, is uninhabited.
Christian Fürst, who, as he reports, lives in a 50-square-meter apartment, says he is "also disaffected".
The land prices, long out of control, are mostly over 1000 euros per square meter, the standard land value is currently 950 to 1000 euros.
“Most recently, a plot of land on Max-Rüttgers-Strasse was sold for 1,400 euros per square meter.” Fürst says: “I admit that a development process still has to take place here.
But I don't have a panacea either. "
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