The withdrawal of the Sparkasse from Gaißach continues to make waves.
The local council insists on a minimal solution and has now invited the Sparkasse board to a special meeting.
The Sparkasse defends its approach.
Gaißach
- The branches of Sparkasse and Raiffeisenbank are only a stone's throw away from each other in Gaißach-Mühl.
The Sparkasse, which now wants to completely dissolve its Gaißach branch - including the ATM located in a porch - apparently initially wanted to lure the community and its Gaißach customers by allowing them to withdraw their cash free of charge from the machines of the neighboring Raiffeisenbank in the future.
In a conversation on July 20, mayor Stefan Fadinger assured him in the latest municipal council meeting on Tuesday evening that he was given verbal approval by the Sparkasse board of directors.
However, this promise was "revised again by telephone a few days later".
Gaißach community insists on a minimal solution in the village
At the meeting, the local council reaffirmed the resolution it had taken in August: The committee shows absolute understanding for the closure of the branch, but insists on a "minimal solution that is not utopian": namely, a self-service terminal with an ATM and bank statement printer in the small front building of the The main building - which the Sparkasse would like to convert into profitable living space - will be retained.
“The citizens expect this from us,” emphasized the mayor.
“We cannot accept that without a fight,” added Renate Schlosser.
Criticism: "Communities are treated from above"
Christopher Hummel criticized the "conduct of the Sparkasse to treat its customers and the community from above in such a way".
Barbara Schmid pointed out that there are such self-service terminals everywhere, for example at the valley station of the Brauneckbahn.
“So they can't be that expensive.” Fadinger added that the Sparkasse would allow such terminals and also cooperations with other financial institutions in comparable and even smaller communities to exist.
A confidential discussion is to become a special public meeting
Fadinger recently invited the Sparkasse board to a meeting at a local council meeting.
He canceled this offer “for scheduling reasons”, but in return invited him to a confidential meeting at the Sparkasse on October 26th.
However, the local council was now of the opinion that this topic was of public interest and should therefore be part of a local council meeting.
Therefore, Stefan Fadinger has now proposed a special meeting to the Sparkasse on this very date.
The municipality does not want to deviate from its minimum requirements.
Sparkasse defends procedure and names figures
The spokesman for the Sparkasse, Willi Streicher, emphasized in a conversation with our newspaper that there were "several good reasons" for dismantling the ATM in Gaißach-Mühl. Because the market share of the Sparkasse in Gaißach is only a below-average 34 percent. Only 37 percent of all Gaißacher Sparkasse customers use this machine. In terms of the number of debits, the machine is only 25th among all 27 locations in the district. The reason for this is that customers “don't have so many alternatives at any other location”: “Obergriesers tend to Lenggries, Untergriesern there are vending machines in nearby supermarkets, where you can use the vending machine free of charge when shopping, and it is from the village to the savings bank center at the train station or on the Flinthöhe hardly further than to Mühl.“The annual maintenance costs for a machine would be 20,000 euros. He also recommends all Sparkasse customers to use the Sparkasse Service Center (0 80 41/8 00 70): "You can even order money there by telephone, which is sent free of charge by registered mail." (Rbe)
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