Appreciating what is available, allowing new things: The market town takes part in the Leader project Baukulturregion Alpenvorland.
It shows that Holzkirchen is facing a difficult challenge.
Holzkirchen
- market builder Florens Hintler puts it in a nutshell: The particular challenge in Holzkirchen is "the rapid change from village to urban structure".
It is a matter of adapting the infrastructure and the range of uses and at the same time maintaining the identity of the location and redefining it if necessary.
Another important issue is to create space for social interactions.
“There is a lot of catching up to do in Holzkirchen,” says Hintler.
These topics are now to be considered within the framework of the Leader project Baukulturregion Alpenvorland - in which the market town is participating.
This has now been discussed in more detail in the local council.
The “Baukulturregion Alpenvorland” is a two-year leader project that aims to anchor and strengthen Baukultur in the Bad Tölz Wolfratshausen, Rosenheim and Miesbach districts.
The aim is to sensitize politics, administration and civil society to the topic.
For example, it is a matter of saving space despite increasing demand, redensifying it without destroying the townscape, appreciating what is already there and allowing new things, avoiding vacancies and paying attention to sustainable materials when building.
The eight pilot communities include Bad Aibling, Bad Feilnbach, Dietramszell, Kiefersfelden, Neubeu and Samerberg as well as Gmund and Holzkirchen.
The participants are accompanied by the LandLuft association from Austria, the office for urban projects from Leipzig and the Alanus University based in Alfter.
The three partners have formed a working group (Arge).
The project is funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
Elisabeth Leitner from Graz from the consortium, who is also site supervisor for wooden churches, was connected to the council meeting via video conference.
“We develop individual strategies for each location,” she said.
Those responsible will accompany the communities until the end of 2022.
Due to the corona, most of the events on building culture have so far taken place in digital space, she reported.
Online walks, for example, are part of the program.
But also a building culture workshop in October 2020, which among other things gave an insight into the activities of all eight participating municipalities.
A second of this kind is scheduled for July this year.
The lecture series including discussions has already started, the team is touring - mostly virtually - through all communities.
Gmund, for example, will be on April 29th with the topic: "Unusually inhabited - communal forms of living in rural areas".
It is Holzkirchen's turn in September under the motto: “Everything is possible, Mr.
How the built environment shapes our society ”.
A “Long Night of Films on Public Space” is also planned.
There will also be the photography workshop “Jewels in Holzkirchen”, and the associated exhibition opening will take place this autumn.
To this end, Leitner gave the local councils a homework assignment: Each councilor should take two photos.
First of all, there are structural changes over the past few years, which he finds particularly successful.
The other picture should show the respective favorite place in the place.
"We hope that we will be able to visit the projects more often very soon," announced Leitner, and: "The more you get involved, the more you get out of the project." Mayor Christoph Schmid (CSU) likes it the project: "I'm looking forward to the next steps," he said.
More information about the project is available on the project website.
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