Appraisal for Dießen Huber houses
Created: 03/02/2022, 12:15 p.m
By: Dieter Roettig
How things will continue with the "Huber houses" in Dießen also depends on the report on possible contamination that is now available.
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Dießen – News from the “Huber houses” in Dießen's Johannisstraße, which the market town has inherited.
Before one can think about future use here, an expert opinion must provide information on the extent to which the building and soil are contaminated with pollutants due to the more than one hundred year history as a printing works.
This comprehensive report is now available, as confirmed by Klaus Hirschvogel from the technical building authority when asked at the last municipal council meeting.
Together with experts, the building authority, the property officers in the municipal council and Mayor Sandra Perzul, they will deal with it intensively in the coming week.
The mayor has already “leaked” something positive to the KREISBOTEN: The water on the ground floor is not contaminated.
The conspicuous ensemble on 2,450 square meters on Johannisstraße consists of a listed pink city villa from the Wilhelminian period with plenty of decor, a red company building and a yellow residential building in between.
Behind it, in the second row, are the mighty printing works buildings around an inner courtyard.
Joseph Carl Huber (1870 – 1948) opened a book printing shop in December 1890, which he continued to expand and ran under changing names such as “Printing Shop JC Huber & Sohn” or “Graphische Kunst- und Verlagsanstalt Jos.
C. Huber KG”.
Well-known publishers and companies are among the customers.
In the heyday, Huber was the largest employer in the municipality of Dießen with up to 250 employees.
Marktgemeinde currently has three options for the inherited Huber houses: Creation of its own renovation and usage concept, sale to an investor or leasing to the Freie Kunstanstalt association, which is already impatiently pawing its hooves.
True to the motto "Culture for All", they want to breathe new life into the industrial wasteland with a public space for art, culture, music, education, social affairs and youth work.
And they want to renovate the dilapidated buildings and premises piece by piece with local craftsmen on their own.
Financed by donations and grants.
