Penzberg - Finished later and even more expensive: The city of Penzberg has to reschedule the renovation of the Metropol cinema.
Now it was lifted.
One of the major urban development projects in Penzberg is located on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße: the municipality is converting the former Metropol-Kino into a music and cultural center.
The groundbreaking was in March 2020.
But the planned completion date of November 24, 2021 could not be kept.
The company responsible had incorrectly drilled the holes for the 80 micropiles that have to support the cube in the center of the building.
February 1, 2022 was named as the new date at the end of 2021, the last time at an on-site visit in May was that it would be used by the music school at the end of March of next year and final completion in summer 2022.
Those responsible increased the costs from initially 4.13 million euros to 4.958 million euros.
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Formerly movie theater: visit to the future concert hall of the music school.
© Andreas Baar
Operation from September 2022
Now there is the next time and financial plan. The building should be completed at the beginning of July, and the music school should be able to receive its students in the premises from the new school year in September. The total costs now amount to around 5.6 million euros. Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) said this at Hebauf. In view of the first approach in 2007, "the price increase is not that far away," said the town hall chief. After all, a lot of grants are flowing: According to Korpan, the renovation is being funded with 3.128 million euros - 2.016 million euros alone come from urban development funding. The “Investment Pact Social Integration in the Quartier 2019” will add 1.06 million euros, and 50,000 euros will come from the EU leader's pot. No wonder that the mayor expressly thanked the donors."We have made a lot of funding," said Prof. Christian Schiebel, head of the urban development department at the government of Upper Bavaria. Penzberg is a good example of projects that are worthy of funding: "For us it is important that the quality is very high," said Schiebel, praising previous projects such as Bahnhofstrasse and Stadthalle. "The city is a very important customer for us in this area," smiled the government representative.the government representative smiled.the government representative smiled.
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The music school teachers Holger Jung (left) and Thomas Bouterwek took care of the musical entertainment at the Hebauf.
© Andreas Baar
The last film ran in 2001
Meanwhile, the mayor reminded not only of the long political journey, but also of the social importance of the movie theater.
The building was built in the 1950s.
Karl Bosch, who showed films in Engelbert Rott's restaurant on Ludwig-März-Strasse, opened the Metropol on Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse.
The first film was shown on September 18, 1952: "Die Försterchristl". On January 17, 2001, film history ended with "The Bride, Her Father and I".
Berta Wilhelm, daughter of the builder, sat in the ticket booth in the foyer until she was 87.
After moving out, the building was used for exhibitions by caricaturist Egbert Greven (died 2018) from 2015 to 2017.