Pähl - Can the “Pearl of the Pfaffenwinkel” afford a neat town hall?
If “pretty” means “expensive”, then according to some local councilors no.
Once again, the current meeting was about the cost increase of the new town hall that had long been decided upon.
It is to be built on communal land at the end of Eichbergstrasse between the “small school” and the fire station.
As reported several times, the current administration wing at the primary school has become too small after the boardroom has already become a classroom and the school needs more space.
Since then, the parish council meetings have not only taken place in the parish and parish center because of Corona.
In the opinion of some local councils, it should stay that way and that means you can save yourself the meeting room in the new building.
Points of contention in the discussion were the planned size and the associated high construction costs of the new town hall. After the original budget estimate of 2.7 to three million euros, there are now around 5.6 million euros as a cost estimate. Definitely too expensive for Thomas Baierl (Free Voters), Gerhard Müller (Politics for Pähl) or Daniel Bittscheidt (Non-party voters Fischen). They spoke out in favor of a significant reduction in the “immeasurably oversized and opulent” building volume. Foyer, stairwell or mayor's anteroom, for example, are planned too large and the conference room is superfluous anyway. The planned basement for the community archive, building services and garbage room was also called into question.
Vice-Mayor Ursula Herz (village movement) defended the additional costs, which are partly due to the general increase in material and construction costs.
In addition, the new town hall will be built for the next fifty years, during which the staff will be increased due to increasing administrative tasks and thus need more space.
One must finally stop “thinking small-mindedly”. She did not accept the “digital town hall” interjection.
It only makes life easier for citizens with various applications, but the processing in the town hall remains the same.
"No palace"
Mayor Werner Grünbauer, who held back in the sometimes lively discussion, emphasized that he was certainly not aiming for “a palace” with the new town hall, but decidedly rejected the proposal of a sober administrative block. After all, a town hall must also be representative and exemplary in terms of energy efficiency. The costs of 5.6 million euros put into the room are not set in stone, but only a preliminary rough estimate based on the planning by architect Claudia Schreiber. He will now entrust them with an exact calculation before the subject comes back on the agenda. Until then, the possible state subsidies would also be clarified. Grünbauer did not take up the idea of a public petition raised by Thomas Baierl on the subject of a new town hall.
According to the plans of the architect Schreiber, the rectangular town hall with a gable roof in east-west ridge direction is to be built on an area of around 600 square meters.
The usable area on three levels including the basement, meeting room and wedding room is outlined as 1,460 square meters.
The core of the house with staircase, elevator, sanitary facilities and building services is made of reinforced concrete, the parts of the building are made of wood.
The roof gets a photovoltaic system.
If possible, the small school, the fire station, the building yard and the rifle shelter should also be integrated into the CO²-neutral energy concept.
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