A never-ending story will come to an end after all.
It's about the dispute over the former post office building on Lechnerstrasse in Ebenhausen.
Ebenhausen
- The former post office building is a house that was built in the mid-1930s on behalf of the Post Building School by the architects Franz Holzhammer and Hans Schnetzer in the "new objectivity" style, but is not a listed building.
In the last meeting of the building, planning and local development committee, the councils approved the wooden cladding with one vote against.
Changes to the house meet with displeasure
The administration and the local council rated the old post office building as having great architectural importance.
The new owner - and an architect herself - was completely different.
The height and width are not proportionate, and the windows are of different sizes and not consistently arranged.
She began with the renovation, had the roof covered with gray tiles and provided the outer wall with wooden cladding.
According to the administration, these two changes did not comply with the local building regulations, and the owner had "promised to preserve the house" - whereupon the municipality agreed with the building rights in the rear part of the site.
"I received it after all," argued the architect, "but I never said that I would leave it unchanged like a monument."
Eight years of discussions
Over eight years have now passed.
Years in which requests for architecture were repeatedly on the agenda of the municipal council.
"I've got used to the wooden facade by now," said Mayor Christian Fürst (CSU) in April of this year for the owner.
He doesn't believe that removing the wood and putting a light-colored plastered facade can reverse the change.
With a difference of one vote, the local council refused to approve.
Local councils draw a line
Now the application for exemption for facade design for Lechnerstrasse 2 and the adjacent garage (Lechnerstrasse 4) was on the agenda again.
“In July 2021, we agreed to an isolated exemption for the two planned semi-detached houses.
A wooden cladding made of natural larch can now be attached here. ”A reference case was thus created.
“At some point you have to draw a line,” said Fabian Blomeyer (Greens).
With one vote against, the councils accepted the motion.
Prince: "It should be a lesson for us not to make any more concessions in the future."