The Hohenleitner house gives way to a new building.
The committee for science and culture in the Bavarian state parliament has rejected the petition for preservation.
The property on Fürstenstrasse in the Garmisch district is now being demolished.
"Carefully," says owner Marco Schöffel, in order to preserve as much as possible.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
– It's off the table.
To Marco Schöffel's relief, the Bavarian State Parliament's Committee for Science and Art rejected the petition to preserve the former Hohenleitner department store.
Now nothing stands in the way of the demolition.
"It was already foreseeable," says the shareholder and co-founder of Black Swan Properties GmbH based in Seefeld (Starnberg district), who owns the property on Fürstenstrasse in the Garmisch district.
He is alluding to the on-site appointment with the two state parliamentarians Robert Brannekämper (CSU) and Volkmar Halbleib (SPD), who dealt with the petition "to save one of the most important monuments that characterize the townscape at the entrance to the town".
In said committee, this was now "declared settled", says Brannekamper.
The Christian Socialist calls what he and his colleague saw during the tour "a real state of neglect, not much is left of the original".
In the house, which was built in 1735/36 and repeatedly expanded and redesigned over the years, the state parliament representatives and the experts from the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments did not see anything worth protecting.
Petitioner Heiko Folkerts speaks of "ridiculous staging"
Heiko Folkerts, who submitted the petition, sees things completely differently.
The Weilheim architect calls the decision of the state parliament committee "a catastrophe".
He still doubts that the building is irretrievably destroyed.
However, he was never able to take a look inside.
Schöffel had excluded him from the on-site appointment after various “defamatory and disparaging statements”.
For Folkerts this meeting was "a ridiculous staging".
He tried to underpin the community's handling of monuments with pictures that he had hung up on the neighboring bus stop to the annoyance of Mayor Elisabeth Koch (CSU) without being asked.
After this date, however, he expected his petition to be rejected.
“The group pressure was obviously so great,” he says.
Now that the Hohenleitner house can be demolished, planning for subsequent use has started again.
“I would like to be available as a technical advisor for this,” Folkerts offers.
After all, the building culture in Garmisch-Partenkirchen is important to him.
That's why he doesn't want a run-of-the-mill new building to be erected in place of the "local building".
This is what Brannekämper is also about.
He cannot at all agree with the proposal that he saw in the preliminary inquiry from Black Swan Properties GmbH.
"In my opinion, that's too much yodelling style with the quarry stone wall glued on and balconies like on a steamer," says the deputy.
"Less would be more." That's why he recommends that the owners reconsider the design.
The design of the new building should be adapted to the neighborhood
No problem for Schöffel.
"Currently it's all about the cubature, which is specified by the development plan," he says.
"There is no draft for the design yet." It is clear to him and his father, with whom he is managing this project, that they want to orientate themselves on the neighborhood.
"Our goal is to create something beautiful." Two residential buildings with a small commercial unit and underground car park are to be built on the approximately 1800 square meter site.
They will probably do without Folkert's offer.
"A limit was crossed," emphasizes Schöffel.
"What happened there was below the belt."
The owner is currently concerned with "gentle demolition".
In order to save as many materials as possible, a wrecking ball is not used.
"Also to separate the rubbish cleanly." To his delight, a guesthouse in Oberau uses floorboards and fittings.
A Garmisch-Partenkirchner has secured boards for his barn and one of the neighbors gets roof tiles.
It is Schöffel's concern to "give away" as much as possible to the environment.
He also promised the previous owners that he would keep the old window panes from the bay window from the 1925/26 renovation.
