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2021-06-02T23:15:44.155Z


The planned demolition and subsequent new construction of three apartment blocks in Dachau-Ost is met with resistance from residents: The demolition is unnecessary and anti-social!


The planned demolition and subsequent new construction of three apartment blocks in Dachau-Ost is met with resistance from residents: The demolition is unnecessary and anti-social!

Dachau

- Thomas Heckenstaller has worked for the well-being of Dachau tenants for decades.

As the founder and chairman of the tenants' association as well as the SPD city council, he was known for not avoiding any dispute, but also for seeking a fair balance between interests.

The fact that he now, at 85, has to go again and strive to find a balance between the interests of the landlord and the tenant, is because he is affected this time. Heckenstaller has lived at Fünfkirchner Strasse 11 since 1994, but if Stadtbau GmbH has its way, his home - together with the neighboring apartment blocks at house numbers 9 and 13 - will soon be "razed to the ground". And that, says Heckenstaller, neither he nor his neighbors want to accept without a fight.

As reported, the three three-storey residential buildings from the 1960s are to be demolished and replaced with new four-storey ones; The garage courtyards are also to disappear in the course of the construction work and additional living space is to be created in the form of two-story point houses. In total, as the owner, Stadtbau GmbH calculated for the city council in March, 66 would end up being 120 apartments today.

Stadtbau boss Hendrik Röttgermann explained to the local newspaper that the residents would have to be relocated during the construction phase; in addition, the costs would be similar to those of the demolition-new building solution. The latter also has the advantage that the residents can stay on site. The building plan, which is extremely demanding from an organizational point of view, provides for the following four steps: In section 1, the garage courtyards will be demolished and replaced by a two-storey garage building - i.e. an underground car park and a parking area on the ground floor - and three so-called point houses on top of it. The residents from the first apartment block will move in there, then their old block will be replaced by a four-story new building; this is construction phase 2.

When the first new apartment block is built, the residents of the second old block will move in there;

then this block will be torn down;

construction phase 3 ends here. At the end, the residents of the third apartment block move into this new building, and construction of the last block can begin.

In theory, the plan may sound good, especially since, according to Röttgermann, the tenants will end up with modern, barrier-free and age-appropriate apartments that are state-of-the-art and fire protection.

In addition, none of the tenants would have to fear losing their apartment, "every tenant gets an offer," said Röttgermann at the time to the Dachauer Nachrichten.

But Heckenstaller emphasizes that the brave new world on Fünfkirchner Strasse will in truth not be so nice and new. Because: All tenants would have to submit a new application for social housing with Stadtbau. The current situation of the tenants would be taken into account - although the income or the number of people living in the apartment may have changed over the years. The result: the "offer" that Stadtbau makes for the new apartments can be significantly higher than the current rent.

But that's not the only reason why he and his neighbors are “excited”, as Heckenstaller explains.

Basically, it is simply a matter of “not being able to convert old ones so easily”!

Many moved into the residential complex believing "that they could stay there all their lives".

Now they would have to take care of a move, new fitted kitchens and probably new furniture.

“Who pays for it?” Asks Heckenstaller angrily.

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Lydia Möller has lived here for almost 50 years.

The 80-year-old “doesn't want to leave here”.

© Norbert H Farewell

Especially since in his opinion the demolition would not be necessary: ​​in the past few years all apartments have been equipped with new electrical and water pipes, fireproof doors have been installed and apartment doors and windows have been renewed. Demolishing 66 older ones because of around 60 new apartments is therefore “totally incomprehensible and uneconomical” for Heckenstaller!

Lydia Möller is one who sees it exactly like Thomas Heckenstaller and who therefore signed his letter to Mayor and Stadtbau without hesitation. The 80-year-old was one of the first residents of the facility in August 1963: "I lived in the camp until then, these houses were built for people like us!" In the 68 square meter apartment she and her husband lived in at the time one and where she raised her four children, she now lives alone. “I'll never get something like this apartment again,” she fears. For her, her sister who lives on the same floor, and her friend, one thing is certain: "We don't want to leave here!"

Source: merkur

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