An empty shop in the center is to become a cultural meeting point for a year or two.
And the “Drei-Mohren-Stadel” can be made fit for temporary use.
These are two of the projects in which Weilheim intends to invest the money from the special fund “Revitalize Inner Cities”.
Weilheim
- The city of Weilheim will receive 240,000 euros from the 100 million fund that the Free State set up to revitalize and strengthen the Bavarian inner cities after the Corona lockdowns.
Because the funding rate is 80 percent, the city itself has to add 60,000 euros.
This means that a total of 300,000 euros are available.
And these, as the main committee of the city council decided unanimously on Wednesday, will be issued as follows:
The individual items at a glance
- 135,000 euros will go to a
project fund
, which
will be used to
finance
various measures in the city center within three years - for example, to “furnish it”, as Jutta Liebmann explained, the head of the Office for Location Promotion, Culture and Tourism in the town hall. A preliminary steering group composed of city council and city center representatives has developed the criteria for this.
- There is 50,000 euros for a
temporary use concept
with which an empty shop in a central location is to become a place for a maximum of two years "where cultural offers can be developed and new offers can be tried out". According to Liebmann, the city museum could "offer a changing display depot and museum education" there. The light art association and the art forum are to have their own areas for exhibitions, courses or cultural meetings. There should also be space for a pop-up store, "so that, for example, businesses willing to expand, start-ups or creative craftsmen who are willing to set up a company have the opportunity to temporarily test their products / offers on the market or to test the Weilheim location".
- 15,000 euros are available for a “joint
workshop for
the various inner-city actors”. According to Liebmann, "all social groups and all ages" should be represented. An online survey would also be conceivable. The representatives of the Greens advertised in the main committee that the workshop participants should be randomly drawn in the manner of a “panel”.
- Finally, there is 100,000 euros for a “
structural investment
for temporary use”
measure
.
The aim is to prepare the so-called Drei-Mohren-Stadel on Eisenkramergasse, for which there is already a “Kulturstadel” concept, that cultural workers can use it temporarily - before it is completely rebuilt and a final use is determined.
Plans include an external steel staircase on the south side, which could be used permanently as a second escape route from the upper floor, and the installation of an escape door on the ground floor.
For this purpose, expert opinions on monument protection, fire protection and statics must first be obtained.
Funds for this are already planned in the city budget.
"A unique opportunity"
Overall, the donations from the special fund were “a unique opportunity”, summarized Jutta Liebmann - and that is how the members of the main committee saw it.
Klaus Gast (CSU) emphasized that the new projects had to be “really an additional benefit” for Weilheim “and not just things that one always wanted to do”.
For Tillman Wahlefeld (BfW), the temporary use of an empty shop is “the most interesting thing in the entire history of funding”: Not only can “a current vacancy be filled”, but “start-ups of all kinds” can try their hand at “without going straight into Full risk of having to go as a businessman ".
Citizens can submit applications
Green representative Brigitte Gronau appeared to be “a bit economically heavy”. Location promotion and city building authority.
Gronau lacks active members of the Weilheim Agenda 21, especially the “Nature” working group.
Liebmann replied that the steering group was already "a very large body".
However, other contributors can always be consulted on a topic-related basis.
In addition, it is open to the agenda as well as other groups and every citizen to submit applications for measures.
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