The days of the Marienheim in the center of Peitingen are numbered with the new building on Bühlach.
But what will happen to the old building after the move?
This is a question that worries the Peitinger Heimatfreunde as well.
You are committed to preservation and hope for the help of the monument protection authority.
Peiting
- No other topic - apart perhaps from the plans for the new hardware store on Zeißlerweg - has been discussed more vehemently in Peiting in the past few months than the new building of the Marienheim am Bühlach. The Peitinger Heimatfreunde have also followed the debate closely, although the working group was less interested in the controversial plans to relocate the facility than in the question of what should happen to the old building on Bahnhofstrasse later.
If it were up to the homeland friends, the answer would be found quickly. "It is important to us that the historic building is preserved in any case," says Franz Bleichner. He and his colleagues have put together a whole showcase full of old photos and information about the eventful history of the house. It is in the Museum Im Klösterle together with an exact model of the building, which was once erected within nine months under the direction of the well-known architect Alois Kranebitter in 1911. At that time, the client was the Peiting Loan Association, the predecessor of today's Raiffeisenbank.
Planned as a residential home for old people living alone and in need, it subsequently served a variety of purposes. Among other things, it housed the public library and the miners' infirmary, and was even used as a police station from 1925 and later as the bank's paying office. The sold the building in 1974 to the Schröttle family, who continued the home as a psychiatric geriatric ward. The chairman of the Raiffeisenbank at that time was called - Franz Bleichner. Few people are likely to know the stately-looking house as well as the 83-year-old.
The fact that the property is facing an uncertain future after the decision to move out of the Marienheim is not only worried by Bleichner.
Gerhard Heiss, a former local councilor and long-time local home administrator, is also committed to ensuring that the historic building is preserved.
On behalf of the Heimatfreunde, he turned to the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
The authority should check whether the old Marienheim could be included in the list of historical monuments.
Two other objects are also to be on the list of historical monuments
He and the Heimatfreunde also recommended two other buildings to the State Office. On the one hand, there is the old girls' school, which dates back to 1900 and, according to the local home nurse, still characterizes the townscape with its facade, and on the other hand, the former dormitory of the mine in Glückaufstrasse. This has a special value as a "contemporary document from the early days of mining". While the old girls' school belongs to the community, the dormitory is privately owned.
The latter also applies to the Marienheim. The area is owned by a company in which the family of the former Peitinger councilor Adolf Kapfer also holds shares. Kapfer was therefore also there when representatives of the monument protection authority recently got their first picture of the historic building. When asked how he sees the advance of the Heimatfreunde, Kapfer reacts cautiously. He points out that there are still no plans for the future of the building. You have to wait for the results of the test anyway. Regardless of whether it is a listed building or not. "I think that the house should be preserved in any case." It remains to be seen whether the other shareholders share this view.
The State Office for Monument Preservation does not want to comment on the impressions gained.
The research and examination are still at the very beginning, informed the responsible senior curator Detlef Knipping when asked by the local newspaper.
The result should be available in two months at the earliest.
In the coming week, the on-site meeting for the old girls' school is due.
The town hall sees positively that there may soon be three more monuments in Peiting.
"For us, it is important to keep the building that characterizes the place," emphasizes Mayor Peter Ostenrieder.
From his point of view, this applies to all three houses.
From the point of view of the municipality, however, it should be considered that the monument protection does not endanger the plans for a possible parking deck in front of the girls' school.
"This must be considered."