Very tightly, with eleven to nine votes, the Pullach municipal council decided to keep the Huther house after all.
Pullach
- The oldest property in the community, a listed building and in the center, had to be sold in between to the parents of the last tenant who lives there.
Michaela Keune has a costume tailoring shop, and her studio is also in the property.
She had come to the meeting with her parents, as well as Michael Graeter, the evening paper's people columnist.
Graeter and von Keune's mother also spoke up when the vote was through;
when they were not intercepted, they called into the meeting.
Graeter got up, introduced himself and said that it would be “dictatorship and arbitrariness” if something was first decided and then rejected.
Keune's mother, who had originally terminated the tenancy by the community, but who was then able to enforce in court that she was allowed to stay, wanted to know: Will the community council simply vote “until it fits”?
Purchased by the municipality in 2017
This is the end of a little thriller;
The 200-year-old property with the powder-blue shutters has long been fought over.
The community bought it in 2017, then wanted to sell it again after it turned out that it would hardly be usable for public purposes.
Agenda 21 and the local history forum were appalled that part of the “cultural heritage” of Pullach should be thrown into the market for food;
In the end, it was decided in a closed meeting to give the family of the costume tailor with prominent customers the contract.
Rethink about local council
In the meantime, however, a rethink had taken place in parts of the municipal council.
While Holger Ptacek, SPD, had always been of the opinion that the community had to keep the house, “a showcase into the past”, Renate Grasse now said for the Greens: “It is the community's task to keep the history of the Place. ”At first they had misjudged the whole thing.
The FDP, CSU and WiP, on the other hand, wanted to continue to sell the house to the Keunes.
"All the best comes from a private initiative," said Michael Reich from the FDP, "perfection" in the renovation was "not suitable" for the house anyway.
Alexandra Metz, WiP, added: "We would be pretty stupid if we tied this block to our legs", according to the opinion of her group, one could in any case secure the right of first refusal.
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The baroque details of the house are a special feature.
© Andrea Kästle
The tension over how the vote should end was palpable at the meeting.
A Green representative was missing, Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens) already feared a stalemate.
But then everything turned out differently - Sebastian Westenthanner from the CSU voted with the Greens, SPD and Pullach Plus to keep the house.
Pullach will now renovate the old property, the floors of which sag seriously and in which fire protection is no longer guaranteed.
And Keune?
Of course, it can stay there in the long term.
During the renovation, she will get a replacement apartment from the municipality.