It's raining heavily in the Baierbrunn primary school.
A state of affairs so bad that there was now a brief silence in the parish council that made people shake their heads.
Baierbrunn - The school topic has really been on the minds of the Baierbrunn community for almost a decade.
On the one hand, it is of course a question of how the building on Hermann-Roth-Straße, which has become too small, can be expanded or replaced.
Second, it is also the case that it rains into a part of the building, the low-rise building, which has been glued to the old building.
For this, it was judicially determined, the architect must be liable.
But on the one hand, the community failed to have the damage repaired.
On the other hand, the building regulations have now tightened.
Now those involved run away from the costs.
Pretty much everything went wrong
The numbers that were mentioned in the last building committee made everyone sit up and take notice.
The matter was estimated at around 250,000 euros during the 2017 trial.
At the meeting, Markus Zimmermann, another architect commissioned by the municipality, presented possible solutions.
Costs: 1.8 million euros.
Whatever the outcome, the church will have to pay a lot of money.
“Pretty much everything went wrong,” said the building authority manager Patrik Kohlert, who admittedly was not in office when the botch happened.
New building standards and skyrocketing costs
It is clear that the huge difference between the estimate four years ago and that of today is not only due to the explosion in construction costs.
At the moment there are also different construction standards than back then, and including the 1.8 million, a completely new roof structure including insulation is now necessary, as well as the creation of new drainage shafts.
Enter mood
Somehow slightly embarrassed, the mood in the building committee already seemed then.
There was general consensus that we must finally act.
During the repair, the roof pitch should be left unchanged, the rain gutters would be replaced and fixed in such a way that they no longer cling directly to the building, as was previously the case.
That was exactly the problem with heavy rain: The rain gutter was overflowing and it was more or less emptied into the building.
Kohlert said: “You won't get wet at the entrance, everything runs like a torrent into the house.” When it rained really badly, the wing could no longer be used, otherwise one made do by setting up buckets.
Community hopes for half a million euros
"We should start negotiations with the other side," said Christian Kaldenbach (ÜWG) in the meeting.
The comments from the others were similar.
Everyone was in favor of trying to come to an out-of-court agreement “promptly and stress-free” with the responsible architects.
The community hopes to get at least around 500,000 euros.
If that is not possible, one would dare to sue again.
Lots of imponderables
The story is marked by "an unbelievable number of imponderables," as lawyer Michael Nusser said of the exclusion. And it is also a legacy that Patrick Ott (ÜWG) and his predecessors Wolfgang Jirschik (ÜWG) and Barbara Angermaier (BIG) had taken over from Eugen Kramer (CSU) and more or less passed on. In May 2017, Nusser explained, the redeeming judgment came, which stipulated that the architect was liable for the construction defects. He had resisted with his hands and feet against taking responsibility. It was difficult that he had entrusted the work to a subcontractor. Ultimately, nobody felt responsible. The architect's insurance companies appealed the judgment, but then withdrew the appeal. From then on the congregation could actually have taken action.
But at that time she was already thinking about how the school should be expanded, whether one should not dare to build a new one.
At the same time, the proposed comparison was already below the renovation costs.
So the whole thing got out of sight.
Kohlert now: "We can't leave this roof like this."
