District - Again and again the district looks enviously in the direction of Weilheim.
Wohnbau Weilheim has been planning, building and managing communal apartments there since 1949.
The communities of Murnau and Uffing also participate as shareholders in this construct.
In the Garmisch-Partenkirchen region, calls for a similar concept are getting louder.
The question that the district politicians are currently grappling with is: How do you best start? The district committee has now agreed on a way. The Zugspitz Region GmbH is to develop an entry concept on behalf of the district. Before the official start, only the district council has to approve.
However, it is difficult to say whether the project will successfully achieve its goal or will go under on the way there. In an initial survey, 19 of the 21 municipalities in the district basically signaled an interest in a housing company that manages and, in the future, also builds (we reported). However, the project depends largely on the larger towns of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Murnau and Oberammergau, which have a significant part of the municipal buildings. At least it would be easier to implement with their support, says Sebastian Kramer. If someone drops out, the company can “hardly work efficiently”, emphasizes the manager of the Zugspitz region. 400 apartments, as also confirmed by Markus Kleinen from Wohnbau Weilheim in the district committee in Spatzenhausen, would be needed for a proper start.If all 19 interested municipalities participate, 339 apartments are currently available, and in the medium term even 471 apartments. Municipal companies such as the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic, which has around 200 apartments, are considering whether it is worth joining.
Larger municipalities want more than property management
Murnau's mayor, Rolf Beuting (ÖDP), expressed an interest if the company were to take care of new buildings in the future.
As in the other places, the municipal council decides whether to join.
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Greens and the SPD are especially campaigning for the model, while the CSU around Mayor Elisabeth Koch - she was absent from the meeting - is more critical.
A community that only manages apartments does not really help the larger municipalities because they have enough resources to take on this part - more cheaply.
“We won't get any further with a property management company”, Beuting emphasizes, as it were.
Without new apartments, “the interest of the bigger ones will cool down relatively quickly,” says the Murnau mayor.
For the small villages, a merger that only takes care of administration and renovation would be a tremendous help, as it relieves the local town halls with few staff.
Thomas Schwarzenberger (CSU) reported from Krün, for example, that the stock of apartments will soon grow from 5 to 15.
In the small administrations “we don't have the know-how,” says the Isartaler.
He suggested a three-step plan: firstly, helping the little ones with management, secondly, tackling renovations and renovations, thirdly, thinking about new buildings.
“Maybe it will go faster than expected.” Mayor colleague Christian Scheuerer (non-party) from Ohlstadt confirmed: “We have exactly the same problems.
Our capacities are finite. "
Free State promotes municipal projects
The subject of building will have to be talked about often enough in a circle anyway. At the moment it is not worthwhile for the municipalities to outsource a new building. Because the state government lures with a 30 percent grant and cheap loans. The district, which, like the municipalities, could become a partner in a residential building in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, does not even have land. After 2025, that is how long the funding initiative is currently running, the situation could look different, says Schwarzenberger. Perhaps then everyone would be happy to have their own company that is also building. Until then, the little ones and the big ones have to agree on a common path.
