Old Dairy Denklingen: No to 7 apartments

Created: 08/09/2022, 19:30

By: Johannes Jais

Distinctive building: the former dairy on Buchweg, i.e. on the road from the town hall to the community and club center, may not be converted in the form requested.

© Jais

Denklingen – A clear no comes from the Denklingen council members to the plan to convert the former dairy building on Buchweg (known for its distinctive red facade) into a residential building.

This is initially justified with the insufficient number of parking spaces - only ten instead of the required 14 for the seven apartments.

And the referendum in May should also provide another explanation for the negative attitude. 

The property with the red house has a good 1,200 square meters.

The construction project exceeds the requirement of 225 square meters per residential unit, according to the municipality for the application for seven apartments.

This criterion for the development in the town center was welcomed by the majority of voters in the referendum in May.

Of course, the old dairy was not the reason for the citizens' initiative in advance.

Rather, it specifically concerned the urban development plan procedure for the quarter between Bahnhofstrasse, Bischof-Müller-Strasse, Buchweg and Industriestrasse.

The two apartment buildings with 24 apartments that investor Stefan Friebe wants to build on a vacant lot west of the 60 newly built apartments can no longer be prevented according to the decision of the district office.

After all, the initiators see the outcome of the referendum as a clear signal to the municipality to initiate the necessary steps in land use planning "so that something like this doesn't happen again".

However, Manfred Gayer finds it more than funny that the former dairy building on Buchweg now refers to one of the criteria required in the referendum as justification.

Gayer (70), together with Anita Gropp, was the driving force behind the citizens' initiative.

He was also for 16 years - from 1984 to 2000 - succeeding his father manager of the former dairy, which was run as a cooperative.

Gayer emphasizes to the KREISBOTEN that the criteria of the citizens' petition are primarily aimed at new buildings in the town centre.

However, the former dairy on Buchweg is a building that has been around for a long time.

The year can also be read on the north facade: 1907.

Analog application

In addition to the proof of parking space, the reason given for refusing the municipal agreement is also the argument that the construction project is "not in the interest of the citizens with the analogous application of the referendum".

That's what it said in the proposed resolution, which the council finally approved.

The initiators of desire find this strange.

After many decades of milk delivery and processing, the dairy cooperative dissolved 22 years ago.

The building on Buchweg was sold.

At that time, the farmers mainly used the proceeds from the sale of the property, where production continued until 2007, to buy shares in another, large dairy in Kimratshofen (Oberallgäu).

This is how farmer Ludwig Preisinger describes it when asked.

Mayor Andreas Braunegger reminded the municipal council that an extension to the building on Buchweg had already been applied for in 2016.

That would not have been approved at the time.

But residential use in the attic is already taking place.

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The parking statute for the Denklingen provides for two parking spaces per apartment.

Unlike in many other cities and communities, it doesn't matter how big the apartment is.

For an apartment with almost 50 square meters, two parking spaces must be proven as well as for an apartment with 100 or more square meters.

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Okay: If, despite earlier rejection, flats under the roof have been expanded without permission, that's not okay;

the fault is clearly the responsibility of the builder.

The fact that the municipality insists on compliance with the parking space statute when expanding the stately and distinctive dairy building and demands 14 parking spaces for seven apartments may be logical.

However, it must be questioned whether an ordinance that requires two places for every apartment, no matter how small, is up-to-date.

However, the fact that the result of the referendum in May, which deals with criteria for land use planning in the town center, is now being used as an argument for rejecting the conversion of the dairy is flimsy.

The municipality and district office have approved more than 80 new apartments in the ghetto on Bahnhofstrasse.

24 of them are still being built.

Specifications for the development in the town center have not been put in place or wanted to.

But now the community is still trying to get the people's will, which is documented in the result of the referendum in May.

But mind you, not with a demolition and new construction, but with a historical substance, where nothing is changed or enlarged on the outside.

And thus puts obstacles in the way of sensible residential use in the existing building.