Banks turn off cash faucets for Egmatingern

As of next year, the Egmatians will no longer be able to get cash in their town.

ATMs are then no longer available.

A decision by the banks that met with great lack of understanding on site.

Egmating

- one bad news chases the other. "I feel as if all the good spirits leave the place," says Mayor Inge Heiler, the Egmating town hall chief is desperate. “First, the Kreissparkasse München Starnberg Ebersberg dismantled its ATM in the Sparkasse pavilion on Schlossstrasse. Then there were discussions as to whether the Raiffeisen-Volksbank Ebersberg would take over the machine, unfortunately without success. Then the Raiffeisenbank informed us that they would dismantle their own machine on Ehamostraße at the end of the year. From this moment on there is no longer any possibility of obtaining cash in Egmating. "

As a reason for the dismantling of their machine in Egmating, the Kreissparkasse says: “Our customers in local retail and gastronomy are increasingly taking advantage of alternative options to cash payments, for example by making contactless payments.

The need for cash supply for this purpose therefore decreases accordingly.

Alternative local offers in Egmating are not planned, no decision has yet been made about the future of the pavilion owned by the Kreissparkasse. "

Raiffeisen-Volksbank Ebersberg speaks of declining sales

Bernhard Failer, CEO of Raiffeisen-Volksbank Ebersberg, says: "The fact that both banks made this decision in 2021 is a coincidence, but can also be factually traced back to the development of cash use in the corona year 2020." As a reason for dismantling our own At the end of the year, Failer mentions declining sales of 25 percent at all ATM locations in 2020 and declining withdrawals. This trend intensified in the first six months of 2021, with a further decline of 19 percent compared to the previous year. "In addition, from January all of our machines will have to meet a different operating system performance standard, which has influenced our decision."

“This is a disaster for Egmating, our population is relatively old.

We want our village to stay alive, especially now - when there is the new weekly market, people need cash to shop there, ”says SPD councilor and Bundestag candidate Lena Wagner.

“We have to make people mobile, come up with concepts quickly,” she calls out.

Mayor Heiler also has an eye on the weekly market.

“Perhaps citizens can get cash at the market, possibly also from the pizzeria or from Mrs di Viesti's shop,” she suggests.

Weekly market is ruled out as a source of cash

"The weekly market is ruled out as a source of cash", market initiator Johann Christian Lang dismisses the idea.

“There is electricity, but no secure internet connection.” Lang, who sits on the local council for the CSU, is indignant about the decision of both banks to cut the Egmatingern's cash procurement: “This cannot be expected of the citizens, I'm curious whether there are protests.

That is negative for the banks, they have an obligation in terms of the service concept. "

Even Renate di Viesti cannot solve the Egmatinger's problem in her small grocery store on Jägerweg: “No, I can't pay out any more cash, that's over,” she says.

“In the past, people would collect their pensions from us, we had Postbank for twelve years, now not anymore,” she says.

"It is fatal that we will be let down by both banks in 2021, we are in the process of mobilizing the cooperative representatives here on-site," says Mayor Inge Heiler of EZ.

She has put the topic on the agenda of the next public council meeting, which is next Tuesday, July 13th at 7 p.m. in the community hall.

Susann Niedermaie

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Fire station in Münster: This topic has also occupied the Egmating company for a long time.