Organ builder's house in new splendor: café, offices and farm shop planned

Created: 06/30/2022, 13:04

By: Laura Forster

Striking and well-known: the so-called organ builder's house in Erling on Herrschinger Straße is to be converted into offices, a café and a farm shop.

The building committee has no objection.

© Andrea Jaksch

Between 1820 and 1830 the building known today as the Orgelbauerhaus was built in Erling.

The listed property is now empty, but the Scheitz family who own it have big plans: flexible office space, a café and a farm shop.

Erling – The house with the distinctive green window shutters on Herrschinger Straße in Erling should soon be back to life.

In the building committee meeting on Tuesday, the members approved the new plans of the owners of the listed building.

In addition to six offices, a café and a nature and farm shop are to be built on a total site area of ​​1249 square meters.

“It really is a very special house in town,” says Georg Scheitz when asked by Starnberger Merkur.

At the meeting, the mayor was not allowed to chair or vote on the agenda item - because of personal participation.

His family has owned the building for a number of years.

But the history of the imposing building goes back much further.

The house in Erling is named after the well-known organ builder Johann Georg Beer

The house was built between 1820 and 1830.

In 1850 Johann Georg Beer, who made a name for himself as an organ builder in the region in the 19th century, married the daughter of Maria Anna Wachter, the owner of the building with a farm, and converted the house into a workshop.

The aisle is so large and high that a finished organ can be completely set up there.

“The roof truss is very nice for the way it was built at the time.

That's sophisticated carpentry," says Scheitz.

Beer was responsible for building several organs in the Fünfseenland, including in Pähl, Diemendorf, Gilching, Tutzing and Steinebach.

He passed his talent and enthusiasm on to his sons.

Johann Georg II and Roman Heinrich followed in their father's footsteps and took over the business and the house on Herrschinger Strasse, previously known as the Moosscheider Estate in the village.

During the First World War, the Beersche company went badly and agriculture came to the fore.

However, business flourished again in the 1940s when the Munich company Eisenschmid moved part of the organ production to Erling.

Around ten years later, the company, which is still based in the municipality of Andechs today, moved into the new building a few meters away.

The Scheitz family, the owners, are planning offices, a café and a nature and farm shop

The house has been empty for the past few years.

The Scheitz family had a number of ideas for using it.

"There were considerations for a hotel or boarding house, or an organ museum.

A personal connection to both the location and the dairy is important.” Since the owners also want to use the house commercially, the plan for a shop with several offices came up.

Specifically, the Scheitz family wants to build six flexible work rooms, a breakfast and meeting room, a sanitary room, a technical room and a nature and farm shop with a café and guest toilets.

The outbuilding is to be demolished to make room for a cold room, an anteroom and an elevator.

The entire planning was created in close cooperation with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.

"It is important that the original character of the house is preserved," says Georg Scheitz.

Flexible office space in Andechs urgently needed

The building committee, headed by Robert Klier (Erling citizens' group), unanimously decided to change the use and repair the organ builder's house.

The project is now going to the Starnberg District Office for examination.

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According to Scheitz, it is not yet certain when the construction work will start.

However, as mayor of the municipality he can say this much: “The new, flexible office space on Herrschinger Straße is important for the town.

We have many inquiries from citizens who are looking for something like this.” lf