Oggi landlady is planning a pavilion café on the lower market

Created: 03/23/2022, 09:00

By: Timo Aichele

Farewell: Sonja Jarosch (centre) with daughter Larissa (right) and employee Cintia Paul on the last day in the café that they had grown in eleven years.

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After leaving the popular Café Oggi, landlady Sonja Jarosch has new plans for Dorfen's city center: a pavilion café.

Dorfen

– Café Oggi is history, and landlady Sonja Jarosch has new plans for Dorfen town centre.

She wants to build a café pavilion on the lower market square.

The town of Dorfen already has 51-year-old Schwindeggerin on its side, and the building committee approved the application with only one dissenting vote.

The project is now in the hands of the District Attorney's Office.

Above all, the approval of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments could still become a problem in the historic old town.

“The authority is notorious.

It's quite possible that we still have considerable resistance there," indicated the head of the building authority, Franz Wandinger, without naming the authority specifically.

According to the planning application, a nine by almost seven meter pavilion is to be built in the very east of the Unterer Markt, right by the fountain at Altöttinger Tor and next to Kosta's day café.

The preliminary plan shows a cube with wood, steel and glass elements and a few tables in front of it.

"The location further west was rated negatively by the city planner," reported Wandinger.

The pavilion would have been too close to the church and the planned water feature.

Jarosch had made the Oggi a popular address over the past eleven years, but now the lease has not been extended.

In the café in the Wailtl estate, the next innkeeper is already getting them ready.

Tobi Maier is in the middle of renovating his Bar Amore (report to follow).

Saying goodbye to Oggi has meanwhile been bitter for Jarosch.

"For my daughter too, she put so much energy into Oggi."

Departure: The café pavilion on the Unterer Markt could look something like this.

Inside there would be room for a few tables, outside the seating would be by the fountain and close to trees.

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"First you have existential fears because of Corona, then that," says the restaurateur, who, as a state-certified ice cream maker, had already made everything herself in Café Venezia on Rathausplatz.

At the same time, she temporarily ran the swimming pool kiosk with her mother.

Jarosch is a passionate restaurateur and is now hoping for the green light for her pavilion café.

The name would probably become something with Oggi again.

Her almost 20-year-old daughter Larissa, who completed an apprenticeship as a confectioner in Munich, will join the company.

After nothing else was free in Dorfen, Jarosch is now fully committed to the lower market: "I don't have a plan B."

A possible obstacle has already been discussed in the building committee.

"As is so often the case, we have a parking space problem," said the head of the building authority, Wandinger.

Five to seven parking spaces would be lost due to the café pavilion.

In addition, three parking spaces must be proven for a gastronomy of this size - which of course is impossible in the middle of the city.

So the debate on transfer or even exemptions ensued in the committee.

The city manager commissioned by the city, Professor Joachim Vossen, was enthusiastic, reported the head of the building authority.

"The café does more for retail than the parking lot," Wandinger quoted the professor as saying.

The replacement of a parking space costs 6100 euros.

The city can calculate all three, or find a compromise solution, the city hall employee said.

Michaela Meister (SPD) and Gerry Forstmaier (GAL) emphasized the revitalization of the city center with another café.

Likewise Vice Mayor Ludwig Rudolf (CSU).

"We all rave about the places in Spain or Italy," he said.

His parliamentary colleague Sabine Berger disagreed.

As a "representative of the outdoor area" she sees the deletion of further parking spaces critically.

She has now been on the city council for two years, during which time around 20 parking spaces have been abolished.

Before things can go on like this, order must be put in place at the folk festival car park, long-term parkers must disappear from the area at the local history museum and the maximum parking time in the city must be reduced.

"The position is perfect, the concept is conclusive, and it takes courage to do it," said Martin Bachmaier (CSU) for the café.

Michael Oberhofer (CSU) requested the replacement of two parking spaces.

The committee finally accepted this with 7:4 votes, while the motion by Martin Heilmeier (LDW) to demand a fee for all three places fell through 3:8.