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This woman has lived in 30 square meters for half a century

2021-06-17T22:42:27.495Z


Living in a few square meters. For many, this is a modern dream - keyword Tiny House. Irmtraud Nechi from Grafing can describe how it actually feels. She has lived in a one-room apartment on 30 square meters for 50 years.


Living in a few square meters.

For many, this is a modern dream - keyword Tiny House.

Irmtraud Nechi from Grafing can describe how it actually feels.

She has lived in a one-room apartment on 30 square meters for 50 years.

Grafing - It's really dark in your four walls at the moment. The windows are covered with thick plastic sheeting. In the middle of the room are cacti, a garden table and chairs. The 81-year-old sleeps on her couch. “It's not good for my back.” She cannot fold out the bed due to lack of space. The apartment blocks on Schloßstraße in Grafing have been renovated for a long time, including the balconies. This is a burden for the pensioner. When someone has so little space, a few square meters of balcony are like relaxation in the open air.

But the woman cannot use her patio at the moment because the renovation work is dragging on.

The pensioner had the balcony renewed at her own expense, "to make it habitable," as she herself says.

“With non-slip Italian tiles.” When they were then knocked away again in the course of the current renovation work, she was sad.

"I went shopping".

She didn't want to have to watch the destruction.

Where their little realm of plants used to be, there is now bare concrete.

“I'm pretty down.” The work is progressing very slowly, reports the 81-year-old.

Irmtraud Nechi came to Grafing because of love

Irmtraud Nechi is not a native Grafinger, but actually comes from Berlin.

She came to Grafing in August 1970 because of love.

She met someone from Munich while on vacation on the Adriatic.

“He got me the apartment.

It should be a stepping stone for me. ”But as it goes sometimes in life: The relationship didn't deliver what it promised as a weekend relationship.

The young woman found a job in a large industrial company in Munich and never married.

What was left was the apartment, in which Irmtraut Nechi has been comfortable for 50 long years.

“I would never have dreamed that I would live here for the rest of my life.

I am one of the first tenants on Schloßstraße, ”she says.

Self-made picture carpets on the wall

In their little realm everything is usually in its place.

You can see self-made picture carpets on the wall.

“Nobody does that anymore,” says Nechi.

A lamp from the 1970s hangs from the ceiling in the living room.

“I bought it in a lamp shop at the Isartor.

The shop no longer exists. ”At the moment, the pensioner can only use the beige-colored sofa bed when it is not folded out.

Because there is no more space due to the garden table and furniture that would otherwise be on the balcony.

In Nechi's Tiny Home you can hardly turn around, it has become so cramped.

A mobile air conditioner is to be added soon.

“I had to drag in the table and chairs myself.

Only the flower box was too heavy for me. ”A construction worker would have carried it into her apartment.

The 81-year-old has to drag her shopping to the third floor

“I can't complain,” says Nechi. Because she has lived here for 50 years, she pays “very little rent,” she reports. In return, the woman accepts that she has to drag her purchases up to the third floor herself. "If it's a big purchase, I have to go up twice." Thank God she can still climb stairs well. “My knees are healthy.” She had already been offered an apartment below in the house. But she declined with thanks. "I would have had to pay double the rent."

When her apartment was recently visited by two realtors who are in charge of the marketing, the pensioner asked her if she could continue to live here. The answer, according to Nechi, was: "You have the right to live here for life." As long as possible, the woman wants to stay in her home. Above all, when you can finally use your beloved balcony again and fold out your sofa bed again.

“Maybe”, says the 81-year-old from Grafinger, “I will need help with the house at some point.” In the past, Nechi thinks, she used to like to spend money on parties.

If she had saved all of that, she might have been able to pay for a condominium as well.

“But no matter how you do it, you do it the wrong way,” smiles the woman at the balcony table.

All news from the Ebersberg district at the Ebersberger Zeitung.

By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our new, regular Ebersberg newsletter.

Source: merkur

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