Get out of the apartment - into the Tiny House: "Let fate decide"
Created: 03/12/2022, 19:40
By: Josef Ametsbichler
A look inside: The large patio door, the fireplace and the spacious sleeping area under the roof are comfort factors that distinguish the tiny house (which has not yet been fully furnished) from the caravan.
© Stefan Rossmann
Sandra Bergovec (41) from Ebersberg wants to get out of her apartment with her five-year-old daughter and into the tiny house on wheels.
She already has one – it's just not certain where she'll go with it.
By someone who can make friends with modern nomadism.
Ebersberg
– Sandra Bergovec is standing on a moss-covered gravel lot behind the noise barrier on the B 304, beaming with the powerful March sun.
The 41-year-old, who is already estimated to be around 30, has plaited her dreadlocks under the bandana headscarf, and she wears a knit sweater and harem pants.
She looks at the three and a half meter high wooden box on four wheels that she parked in the south-east of Ebersberg and says: "Now I'm the owner of the furniture!"
Buy instead of rent: Ebersbergerin invests in mobile Tiny House
furniture, not real estate.
Bergovec has invested around 37,000 euros in the used, five-year-old tiny house, which, because it is firmly mounted on its frame, is technically a mobile home.
"My savings and my pension."
Mobile, but obviously not a caravan: The Tiny House is currently parked on the outskirts of Ebersberg.
The owner has not yet found a parking space to live on.
© Stefan Rossmann
The vehicle differs from the caravan in that it is equipped similarly to a house in terms of insulation, heating, hot water and interior design, just “tiny”.
The showpieces are a spa shower, a wood-heated fireplace and two spacious sleeping alcoves under the roof, which can be reached by ladder.
The luxury is rounded off by a kitchenette with a gas stove and a dry-separating toilet with a bidet hose.
And the floor-to-ceiling glass window door, secured with a metal plate for transport, out onto the "lanai", as the owner calls it - Hawaiian for terrace.
The connections for a photovoltaic system are prepared on the roof.
With water tanks, the car would also be capable of self-sufficient living.
The interior is still missing - but above all a parking space
Sandra Bergovec has stepped inside via the fenced platform at the rear through the front door and is coughing into her sleeve at the cold air.
"Not like in the catalog yet," she says, tracing an arc over cardboard, foam and bare walls with her hand.
"It's crazy how small it looks when the stuff is all outside," she comments on the lack of interior design.
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Sandra Bergovec.
© Stefan Rossmann
At the moment things are still a bit scheps on the real wood parquet floor.
There is still no water flowing from the tap and no electricity from the sockets.
Sandra Bergovec and her five-year-old daughter are still sleeping together in the same room in an Ebersberg apartment.
In order for that to change, the 41-year-old has to find a piece of land where she can deflate the tires of her tiny house, where it can do its job leveled on six heavy-duty supports.
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The signs that this can happen in their current home country are not ideal for Bergovec.
Plots of land are hard to come by, even for tiny buildings like yours, and if they are, then at mostly deterrent prices.
She seeks but is not overly entrenched by nature.
Bergovec grew up in Oberpframmern, once studied in Salzburg, temporarily lived in Hawaii and lived for a while in Berlin in an Opel Kadett before moving back to Ebersberg eight years ago, she says.
"It wasn't that expensive here back then."
Patchwork work and wanderlust: Better free than rich
She never wanted to be rich, rather free.
She used to earn her living as an event technician, now as a temporary kindergarten teacher.
She is also an illustrator, knows how to mow ecologically compatible areas with a scythe and how to beautify a website.
Almost like patchwork.
Such a person finds something to do everywhere.
Now she is flirting with the Bavarian Forest.
There she opened up a meadow property for which she did not have to pay any rent for the time being.
With its own water source and without Munich's suburban bureaucrats, who often struggle with alternative forms of living.
"Outskirts without building specifications - my favorite words at the moment," says the native of Ebersberg.
"Besides, some people here just complain all the time."
A dry toilet in the bathroom, which separates solids and liquids, and a wellness shower (not shown) ensure hygiene.
© Stefan Rossmann
"I can't understand people who plan 25 years in advance."
Sandra Bergovec
The fact that there are question marks behind her plans for the future, for example that the manufacturer's guarantee on her tiny house will expire in ten years, doesn't bother her.
She made life in the tiny house palatable to her daughter – she takes care of the child together with her father – by pointing to her own bedroom, which she has not been able to offer her in expensive Ebersberg up to now.
“Others here inherit.
I have nothing to inherit,” says Sandra Bergovec – without bitterness.
"I can't understand people who plan 25 years in advance."
Now she's back outside in the sun.
"I'm doing so well," she says.
The child still attends the forest kindergarten, but also spends a lot of time with mom instead of in an all-day facility, which is more important to her than a 40-hour job.
The Tiny House is not yet fully furnished - but the stove is permanently installed.
© Stefan Rossmann
Tiny House could serve as refugee accommodation - but at some point the owner wants to get started
If your plans can't be put into action immediately because of the current world course - that's not a bad thing either.
The woman from Ebersberg first registered the trailer as emergency accommodation for Ukraine refugees at the district office and hopes that a suitable meadow will then be found as a temporary installation site.
But at some point in the near future she will probably be drawn out into a kind of modern nomadic life in her tiny house.
"I'll let fate decide." Sandra Bergovec can't imagine settling down in the long run.
"I like traveling far too much for that," she says.
"But I also like to have my own shower with me!"
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