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The decision has been made: Aschheim's town hall will be rebuilt

2021-11-19T07:57:34.338Z


The decision has been made: The Aschheim town hall will be demolished and rebuilt. A renovation is off the table. A mediator was needed in the municipal council for this decision.


The decision has been made: The Aschheim town hall will be demolished and rebuilt.

A renovation is off the table.

A mediator was needed in the municipal council for this decision.

Aschheim

- Well then.

The municipality of Aschheim will replace the old town hall building with a new building.

After a year and a half in a near standstill, the local council made this decision in a four-hour special meeting.

For years, the committee has been grappling with the question of whether the town hall, which has been vacant due to serious fire protection deficiencies, should be demolished and rebuilt or renovated.

In 2019, people believed they had reached their destination when the decision to demolish the old building had already been made.

With the local elections in 2020 and the associated changes in the majority structure in the local council, the discussion was restarted.

In the end it became very quiet about the decision.

Refurbishment more expensive than new construction

In the special session, Mayor Thomas Glashauser (CSU) presented the mediator Brigitte Gans, who led eloquently through the evening and repeatedly took the sharp tone out of the discussion. Under her moderation, the administration once again presented familiar things from the room allocation plan to cost calculations. The main result of the hours of lectures was a financial stalemate. The demolition of the old building with a replacement building including the extension was estimated at 14.50 million euros. The renovation of the old building including the extension on the neighboring property (Sauter House) would cost 14.72 million euros. So a good 200,000 euros more - plus any structural imponderables during the renovation.

What was new this time was a vague sketch of what a replacement building with an extension could look like.

The administration received praise from all sides for this visualization.

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That happens with the existing buildings on the site.

Town hall, carport and Sauter house will be demolished and replaced by new buildings.

© visualization: community

After almost four hours of discussion, the CSU parliamentary group pleaded for demolition and new construction, as had already been decided in the last legislative period. “The idea has confirmed in my opinion that we need a new building,” said Rolf Dettweiler (CSU), “the decision is ripe and overdue.” Group colleague Florian Meier added that a refurbishment entails significantly higher additional cost risks financially. The Free Voters, on the other hand, wanted to use a procedure for the selection of architects in which demolition and renovation remain possible. "We are the only ones here who are really open-ended in discussions," said Eugen Stubenvoll (FW). From his parliamentary group, the 2nd Mayor Robert Ertl added “that we don't know what we're getting into”. The greens indicatedthat there is a tendency towards the variant “demolition with replacement new building”. In the end, three of the four parliamentary group members voted for the old building to be demolished.

"Do you have any hope that the renovation will be even cheaper?"

Mediator Brigitte Gans spoke to the local councils with the tongue of an angel in order to find a consensus shortly before a majority decision.

Your question to Eugen Stubenvoll: "Do you have any hope that the renovation will be even cheaper?" The FW made it clear that they did not want to commit between demolition and renovation of the old building.

Mayor Glashauser had held back for a long time and now wanted a decision with which one could show the citizens how to proceed.

He indicated that the town council could embarrass itself with the never-ending history of the town hall.

Shortly before midnight, a resolution was passed with a roll-call vote.

With 13: 7 votes, it was decided once again to demolish the old building.

The six present representatives of the Free Voters and Sabine Maier (Greens) voted against.

With all 20 votes, it was decided to demolish the Sauter house in order to be able to build an extension here.

How does it go from here? 

At the special meeting, the “Kellerer & Kellerer” office accompanying the tender presented a new schedule.

Moving into the new town hall complex is therefore possible in the second half of 2025.

In the special meeting, the space allocation plan for the administration was once again confirmed by resolution.

2022 will be a planning year, whereby the architect should be selected in the first half of the year and a first binding cost estimate could be on the table in the middle of the year.

The trades should be put out to tender at the beginning of 2023 so that the construction of the shell can take place in the second half of the year.

The interior work will then need the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. Then Aschheim's version of the neverending story could come to an end.

More news from Aschheim and the Munich district can be found here.

Source: merkur

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