The ordinariate wants the pavilion on Holzhauser Strasse in Münsing to be torn down.
Münsing's pastor reacts with incomprehension.
Münsing - Pastor Martin Kirchbichler does not speak well of the Archbishop's Ordinariate in Munich.
It would like to have the pavilion, which previously housed the pastor's apartment and another apartment, demolished against the will of the church administration.
Kirchbichler had to be content with a one and a half room apartment of 40 square meters in the one-story apartment building south of the rectory for 15 years until an apartment on the upper floor was created for him in the new rectory.
The apartment house is now to be demolished so that more parking spaces can be created for the parish hall and house.
For Kirchbichler this is absurd in times of blatant housing shortages.
That is why he has been exchanging letters with the ordinariate for years.
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Pastor Martin Kirchbichler: “For me, the Archbishop's Ordinariate has lost touch with the grassroots in the parishes over the past ten years.
That makes the last of the volunteers feel bad. "
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The church foundation insists on maintaining the pavilion
The Church Foundation of Assumption of Mary, represented by the church administration with chairman Martin Kirchbichler, was against the demolition of the bungalow from the start. In 2008 it was decided to build a new rectory instead of the old one from the 1960s - “without any requirement that the apartment house must give way”, emphasizes Kirchbichler. Even when, after years of stagnation in 2014, the result of an architectural competition was finally realized and the new rectory was to be built according to the plans of the architects Claus and Forster, the church foundation insisted on keeping the pavilion. The two apartments in it would also be needed in the future for employees of the parish association, the kindergarten or for pastoral workers, it said. This requirement was repeated several times.
At the end of June, Head of the Ordinary Office, Dr. Stephanie Herrmann and Vicar General Christoph Klingan informed the church that the pavilion would remain dismantled - a decision that met with a great deal of incomprehension among the pastor and many citizens. Kirchbichler says: “You have to ask yourself how seriously you are taken by the ordinariate as a parish association leader”. The church administration tried to find a compromise with the ordinariate, he says. Because it is a concern of the entire parish to preserve the apartment house. For example, a new parking lot in front of the parish hall would have been dispensed with in order to save costs.
The pastor regrets that so far no one from the ordinariate has been ready to talk to the Münsing church administration.
He says: “For me, the Archbishop's Ordinariate has lost touch with the grassroots in the parishes over the past ten years.
That makes the last of the volunteers feel bad. ”At the beginning of the week he filed an objection to the dismantling plans.
Costs for the new rectory rise by 660,000 euros
Mayor Michael Grasl also cannot understand why one wants to remove living space without emergency these days. The 27-year-old pavilion is in good condition, says Grasl. The small apartments are ideal for younger people living alone, such as a kindergarten teacher or a parish worker. The community does not insist on the additional parking spaces planned by the ordinariate. “The parking situation is not at all problematic in this area. According to the municipal parking regulations, the spaces are sufficient, ”emphasizes the Münsingen town hall chief.
Martin Kirchbichler is still annoyed about one more thing: The costs for the new rectory, on the ground floor of which the rectory has already moved, rose from 3.33 million to 3.99 million euros over the course of the seven-year construction period. Some church taxpayers blamed the church foundation as the builder for this, he reports. One of them - the man wants to remain anonymous - therefore asked the Archbishop's Ordinariate where the increase came from. As can be seen from the answer that our newspaper has received, the additional 660,000 euros arose primarily from the current increase in construction costs. Almost all the offers submitted were above the cost calculation, reports the construction department. There were also demands from the district office as a building permit authority.Among other things, it required a roof overhang and a trench system for drainage. “So the reason lies elsewhere than with the wishes of the local church administration. We are always accused by the ordinariate of driving up the costs, ”said Kirchbichler. The ordinariate rejects criticism.
Tanja Lühr