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Search for alternative quarters: New Castle is an alternative

2022-05-23T07:34:57.121Z


Search for alternative quarters: New Castle is an alternative Created: 05/23/2022Updated: 05/23/2022 09:21 The New Castle is illuminated in the early morning. © Marijan Murat/dpa/archive image The House of Representatives in Stuttgart is to be renovated. But where should the parliamentarians go then? After the failure with a transitional quarter in the fall, the Ministry of Finance proposed thr


Search for alternative quarters: New Castle is an alternative

Created: 05/23/2022Updated: 05/23/2022 09:21

The New Castle is illuminated in the early morning.

© Marijan Murat/dpa/archive image

The House of Representatives in Stuttgart is to be renovated.

But where should the parliamentarians go then?

After the failure with a transitional quarter in the fall, the Ministry of Finance proposed three variants.

And calculated an explosive proposal.

Stuttgart - More than half a year after the quarrels about the alternative quarters for the parliamentarians in the renovation of the House of Representatives, the Ministry of Finance and the head of the state parliament now want to find a joint solution.

In just over a week, on May 31, the Bureau will deal with the question, a spokesman for the state parliament of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart confirmed.

The search for alternative accommodation during the renovation of the House of Representatives built in 1987 was recently associated with some dispute.

The Ministry of Finance's plan to demolish three older houses and build a new building to make room for MP offices near the city center was stopped in October by Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens).

The reason was criticism of the way the Ministry of Finance dealt with long-term tenants of the cheap apartments in the houses that were to be demolished.

Now the department of Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens) has worked out three scenarios as to how the renovation of the House of Representatives could be bridged.

In addition, at the request of the SPD and FDP parliamentary groups, it also calculated what it would cost if the MPs were to move permanently to the New Palace in Stuttgart.

Such a move would cost almost 200 million euros, as the dpa learned from faction circles.

This option for relocating the offices of the parliamentarians during the renovation of the House of Representatives would be by far the most expensive.

Accordingly, the two wings of the New Palace would have to be completely rebuilt for the new use.

Cost: 80 million euros alone.

In addition, the finance and economics ministries would need a new place to live.

Important to know: Only the offices of the Greens and the CDU are still in the House of Representatives.

The SPD and FDP are on Schlossplatz, the AfD is housed in the Justice District.

In addition to the lock option, the Department of Property and Construction in the Ministry has proposed three variants.

Variant one is a property owned by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on the Königstraße shopping street opposite the main train station.

To rent the approximately 200 offices over a period from 2026 to 2031 - i.e. in the next regular legislative period - 72 million euros would be due.

The renovation of the House of Representatives would add 45 million euros.

Bottom line: 117 million euros.

Option two would be to stay in Uhland Carré, not far from the House of Representatives in the Judiciary.

This would be the cheapest option with a total cost of 88 million euros.

However, the move here could not begin until 2028 and the return would not be an option until 2032.

The third possibility is the option favored in the fall of building a new building on Ulrichstrasse, behind the House of Representatives, and tearing down the three state-owned buildings.

Unlike half a year ago, Vermögens und Bau not only wants to use the new building for offices, but also allow a third of it to be used as apartments.

In addition - in the event of a bid - a good alternative should be found for each individual tenant.

This variant would cost a total of 142 million euros.

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FDP faction leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke sees no progress on the matter.

"Overall, the situation remains unclear for us, especially since the new electoral law passed by the Greens, CDU and SPD will probably increase the state parliament by a number of additional MPs in the next election," Rülke told dpa.

“These must also be accommodated.

We have already pointed this out to the state parliament administration.”

The New Castle, once the residence of Württemberg dukes and kings, was almost completely destroyed in World War II.

In 1957, the state parliament decided with a narrow majority to rebuild the castle, at least on the outside.

Since then, the Ministry of Finance has resided in a wing of the building.

The Ministry of Education was also housed there until 2012.

But because the then Deputy Prime Minister Nils Schmid (SPD) merged the finance and economic departments under his leadership, the Ministry of Education had to give way.

The Ministry of Economics, which has been independent again since 2016, has remained in the New Palace.

dpa

Source: merkur

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