The village tavern in Ismaning could give way to a residential building.
The brewery has submitted a corresponding preliminary inquiry to the municipality.
A shock for the long-standing landlady and her guests.
Ismaning
– After two years of the pandemic, Kornelia Sawatzki (68) from Ismaning thought the worst was behind her.
But then guests asked the cult landlady of the village tavern when the rustic inn was closing.
Shut down?
Yes, because there are obviously other ideas for the property.
On Thursday in the municipal council (7 p.m.), a preliminary building application for the construction of a new apartment building is on the agenda – instead of the local.
The landlady knew nothing about it, nobody spoke to her, she says.
In any case, the “Schneider Weisse” brewery can imagine earning money in Ismaning in the future with apartments instead of beer.
Sawatzki took over the village tavern on November 1, 1997, and this year she is celebrating her 25th birthday as an innkeeper.
The restaurateur was proud of this, forming a team with her son in the kitchen and the waiter, who felt like part of the family for a long time.
This team from the village tavern, which many guests only call the "white" because of the brewery, never thought of giving up during the pandemic.
"We served with a mask and offered food for pick-up," says Sawatzki, "and I was always convinced that it would eventually get back to normal." With the easing these days, she had a good feeling: "I was happy that I made it through the pandemic.”
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"Our last Boazn in town": The rustic village tavern has many long-established regulars.
© Gerald Fortsch
And now the hammer blow out of nowhere.
The Ismaningerin, who lives above the inn at Dorfstrasse 11, says she has had no contact with the brewery since September, with which she had worked well and without any problems for a quarter of a century.
"Request for the construction of a new apartment building with underground parking, Dorfstr.
11" is now under agenda item 3 of the municipal council.
A house instead of the economy?
A view that made the people of Ismaning fall from all clouds.
"The question is whether it's still profitable."
At the brewery, meanwhile, it is important that this is a preliminary building request, with an emphasis on "preliminary request".
They are exploring how the aging building could continue, "which would be possible in principle," explains Udo Schlosser, the managing director responsible for real estate at "Schneider Weisse".
"The question is whether it's still profitable."
The big problem: Some necessary renovations have accumulated.
The brewery would probably have to invest a “six-figure” amount to modernize the canal, kitchen and Co., explains Schlosser, but also qualifies: “We can no longer churn in so much money.” Not during a pandemic, not during a war , which massively restricts the export business.
"Our last Boazen in town"
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There sit those who always sit there – but for how much longer?
© Gerald Fortsch
In Ismaning, hopes are resting on two trees.
On the chestnut trees, which provide shade for almost 60 seats in the beer garden and are characteristic of the restaurant.
If the municipality declared the preservation of the chestnuts as a condition in the preliminary building application, then the building site between Dorfstraße and the Gleißenbach would be very manageable.
According to well-informed circles, an apartment building with an underground car park would be almost impossible under these conditions.
You can feel that the people of Ismaning are attached to their village tavern, this rustic inn.
Especially the regulars and guests from the oldest families in the village, who have been coming here for decades.
The village tavern, they say, is "our last Boazn in town".
A knighthood.
But times have changed and landlady Sawatzki fears for her livelihood if she loses her business and her apartment.
According to Managing Director Schlosser, the brewery gave notice to her in December 2022.
But Sawatzki still hasn't lost her dry sense of humor: "I'll just find a rich Ismaninger and move in with him..."
More news from Ismaning and the district of Munich can be found here.