The criticism of the announced closure of numerous Sparkasse branches does not stop.
Signature lists are now being laid out in Bad Heilbrunnn.
In Gaißach, a couple turned to the VdK for help.
Bad Heilbrunn / Gaißach - On January 1, 2022, the Sparkasse branches in Icking, Bad Heilbrunn, Gaißach, Jachenau and Walchensee are to be closed completely.
Self-service points are set up in Dietramszell, Reichersbeuern, Egling, Königsdorf and Waldram.
Some affected communities have already spoken out critically (we reported).
Marianne März from Bad Heilbrunn, for example, who turned to the Tölzer Kurier, is astonished that there is so little resistance from customers.
The only way she can explain the reluctance is that most of them think that nothing can be done anyway.
For Heilbrunn, the savings banks are part of the basic supply
After a few talks with other Heilbrunnern, she does not want to be satisfied with that and will start a signature campaign from Monday, September 13th.
In the Heilbrunn pharmacy, at Garten Holzmann, in the town hall and in some other places, March puts out lists on which one can protest against the closure of the Heilbrunn branch (Corona note: Please bring your own pen.)
For Marianne März, a savings bank is part of the local basic supply.
After all, Heilbrunn is not a very small place.
The farmer from Mürnsee knows about business owners who now have to drive their daily income to Benediktbeuern.
"That is also completely unecological".
You yourself only rarely come to the Loisachtal community, which is 8.5 kilometers away.
Resistance continues to rise in Gaißach as well
Incidentally, Benediktbeuern (6.9 percent), together with the district (54), Bad Tölz (19.7), Kochel (6.9) and Lenggries (12.5), form the United Savings Banks Association in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, the The carrier of the "public credit institution" is.
Thomas and Maria Ostheimer from Gaißach, who also do not want to accept the closure of the local savings bank branch, refer to the statutory mandate to set up a municipal savings bank.
"At least one machine should stay," says 80-year-old Maria Ostheimer and speaks of "a piece of quality of life".
Married couple asks VdK President for support
The couple wrote a letter to VdK President Verena Bentele in Berlin asking for help. Thomas Ostheimer (85) has been paralyzed for 50 years. He is currently in the accident hospital in Murnau. His wife "stinks terribly" how the Sparkasse "deals with us oide Leit".
They have been customers of the Sparkasse for almost six decades.
And now one is told succinctly that one should go to Tölz to the Sparkasse Badstrasse.
Getting off there in a wheelchair is downright life-threatening, says Maria Ostheimer, who is still grateful to the former Gaißach Sparkasse boss Aschenbach for creating barrier-free access that deserves this name.
Unfortunately that was a long time ago.
She was told that there was also the possibility of a money messenger.
That is downright “antediluvian”, the elderly woman is annoyed and feels reminded of the time when she had to collect her husband's pension from the post office.
It is also not clear to her how a money transfer works in practice and what the service should cost.
At least one self-service point should remain in Gaißach
Against this background, you don't want to get into your head why the Sparkasse doesn't even get the self-service point in Gaißach.
“The Sparkasse owns the house.
And they bought that with our money. ”She appeals not only to be about the profits, but also“ about a little humanity ”.
Marianne März, who wants to have at least one Sparkasse self-service point in Heilbrunn, has similar thoughts.
When the Sparkasse pointed out that you could withdraw money at the Raiffeisen machine on Rewe, she replied that she felt uncomfortable at a free-standing machine.
"That should be a bit protected." (Cs)
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