The Fischbachau fire station has not been renovated since the 1960s and is accordingly ailing.
A working group should now clarify how things will go on with him.
Fischbachau - Marinus Gasteiger, commander of the Fischbachau fire brigade, joined the committee at the latest meeting of the Fischbachau local council to call on the local councils to act quickly.
“We are in dire straits,” he says from the audience.
"Please, please, let's all come to a solution."
The reason for Gasteiger's appeal: The Fischbachau fire station is in urgent need of renovation. The first proposals for redevelopment were made in 2018; in March 2020, the district office approved a plan that provided for the redevelopment, extension and installation of two apartments. Then came the questions of whether apartments in a fire station lead to conflicts and whether demolition and new construction would not make more sense. They have not yet been resolved, also because Corona made meetings more difficult.
The municipal councils now took the first step to clarify these questions and to redeem the fire brigade: They decided against the vote of Lothar Prack (NL) to found a working group to plan and accompany the redesign of the fire station.
The committee will include the members of the infrastructure committee, the architect and Gasteiger as commander of the Fischbachau fire brigade and district fire chief Anton Riblinger.
The working group should first clarify the questions that have delayed the project.
New construction or demolition?
Apartments or not?
Basement or not?
For the project it is a fresh start, for the community it is a far-reaching decision.
To classify: Architect Florian Erhard estimated a renovation with an extension to include a vehicle hall with a basement at around 1.8 million euros.
According to Erhard, a new building without a basement would cost around 2.2 million euros, a new building with a basement around 2.4 million euros.
These amounts will shift due to the planning of the working group.
But they already show that considerable sums of money are involved for the community that is concerned with debt relief.
Fischbachau has set aside funds: this year it is 200,000 euros in the budget, in 2022 180,000 euros.
This means that the community is "of course miles away" from the total costs, said managing director Johann Neundlinger.
"But we need a new fire station."
Josef Obermaier (CSU) the process went too slowly.
“I thought we were finally getting on.
We are now at the same point as two years ago. ”Nothing has happened since the approval in March 2020, he criticized.
"And now there are 1.8 and 2.2 million here."
Neundlinger replied that there were unanswered questions, that the original planning was done without concrete figures and for a plan that did not appeal to everyone.
So the project has made good progress.
Now it is time to take the next step.
Michael Gartmaier (CSU) pleaded for the working group to be convened for the first meeting quickly, possibly in November - “don't lose any more time”.
That was supported by Bernhard Kafl (FWG).
He said the community and the fire brigade had been "lost for almost two years" and "they now have to start again almost from scratch, as sad as it is".
Now the local council should tackle the issue as quickly as possible in order to create a dignified home for the fire brigade.