Night shift in the town hall: Treasurer submits an application to KfW
Created: 04/24/2022, 08:00
The middle school in Holzkirchen on Baumgartenstrasse is demolished.
A new building will be built in the same place.
This is affected by the cancellation of funding © Thomas Plettenberg
The Reconstruction Loan Corporation has resumed its support program for energy-efficient houses.
Because the “first come, first served” principle applies to the application, Holzkirchen’s chamberlain had to work a night shift.
Holzkirchen – At the beginning of the year, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) stopped funding energy-efficient houses – earlier than the previous government had already decided.
That also surprised the community of Holzkirchen (we reported).
The new building yard and the new middle school building were affected.
Both projects are planned as Efficiency House 40.
This means that the buildings consume 60 percent less energy than a house that complies with the minimum statutory requirements, for example due to the use of materials and insulation.
The new edition of the funding program started last Wednesday and applications could be submitted again.
The municipality of Holzkirchen also took advantage of this opportunity, as treasurer Dominik Wendlinger announced.
At 12:10 a.m. he sent the application, he reports.
Actually, there were four applications: one for the middle school, three more concerned the warehouse, the administration building and the residential units of the building yard on Amalie-Hohenester-Weg.
He deliberately submitted the application early, says Wendlinger.
He was aware that the funding would be distributed "according to the first-come-first-served principle" - the chronological order of submission decides who gets the money.
And he seems to have been right: At 10.45 a.m. KfW ended the funding program again, the funds had been exhausted.
It is not yet clear whether Wendlinger's night shift was worthwhile for the market community.
You have received a confirmation of receipt, but nothing more, said Wendlinger when asked by our newspaper.
You will now wait.
After the temporary end of the KfW subsidy, the municipality decided to stick to the efficiency standard 40.
In the absence of KfW funds, the municipality would lose around 3.5 million euros in funding.
By Andreas Wolkenstein
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