Dolce Vita at Nöscherplatz: Italian lifestyle in the middle of Olching
Created: 08/08/2022, 12:01 p.m
By: Kathrin Böhmer
Has also gone through a lot of hardships: Sepp Schwalber, head of the new café on Nöscherplatz, which should have opened over a year earlier.
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The Nöscherplatz in Olching is now also a place to go for those with a sweet tooth: the café on the ground floor is finished after a delay of more than a year and is already well frequented.
The seven apartments in the city above are now also waiting for tenants.
The four million euro project has been completed.
Now it's time to enjoy Dolce Vita.
Olching
– One might have thought that the red scooter was part of the scenery.
It is parked decoratively a little way from the new building on Nöscherplatz.
As if he wanted to emphasize the character of the Italian piazza.
"It conveys Italian flair," said Mayor Andreas Magg (SPD) at the official inauguration of the residential and commercial building on Friday.
City council members, among others, were invited to celebrate the completion of the construction project at bar tables in the sweltering heat.
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Official inauguration: Mayor Andreas Magg (l.), City Council members and invited guests at the celebration at Nöscherplatz.
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Finally a barrier-free, public toilet
According to treasurer Robert Schuhbauer, it ended up costing around four million euros.
Upstairs are seven municipal and subsidized apartments (between one and three rooms).
The award is already in progress.
There is also a barrier-free, public toilet, which has long been requested by the Disability Advisory Board.
On the ground floor is the gastronomy with 50 indoor and 80 outdoor places.
From September 1st, this will now officially be handed over to the tenant Sepp Schwalber.
However, it has been open for some time.
Inspiration: Olching's first department store, the Kahn department store around 1902, was the model for the building.
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“The actual opening date has been delayed by a year plus about three months.
I couldn't afford to allow it," explains the restaurateur.
So it started, construction site or not.
For example, the partition walls between the toilets were still missing in the women's toilet.
But there was always only one person in the room.
That's all in the past now.
It's not quite finished though.
This week the place is to be sanded, for this all chairs and tables from the outdoor area have to be removed again.
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Mayor Magg also emphasized in his speech that none of this would have been possible without the restaurateur's courageous commitment.
The head of the town hall explained the history of the “historic square”.
The tree in front symbolizes the location of the old church tower, which used to be the cemetery.
This made the conversion work a bit difficult: archaeologists found what they were looking for.
"Significant Bones" have been recovered.
The mysterious red scooter: Apparently it stands there very often and exudes a piazza atmosphere.
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Complicated location next to church
The property has belonged to the city since Mayor Siegfried Waibel's time, there used to be a parking lot here.
When it came to the new building next to the church, there were some suggestions from architects.
Nobody was really convincing.
The big challenge was that the new house fit into the environment, i.e. between the neo-Romanesque church of St. Peter and Paul and the modern houses on the other side.
Then came the impulse from the head of the building authority, Markus Brunnhuber: a kind of reminiscence of a house from the past, the first department store in Olching (Kahn).
"Today your jeans house is there," said Magg to Sandra Pfend-Strobel, who represented the city's marketing department at the event.
From the 2018 draft, some time passed before construction could finally start.
The approval was not easy because of the proximity to the church and the monument protection.
The corona pandemic and the building materials crisis also played a role: For example, there were delivery problems with the roof tiles, as became known at the topping-out ceremony.
Why is this wrong?
Incidentally, the building is rotated by three degrees.
"A mystery.
Why is that crooked?” the mayor asked the group.
The explanation turned out to be rather sober.
It was probably a bureaucratic coup.
And it has no effect whatsoever on the taste of ice cream and coffee.