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Notzinger Weiher: The long search for a kiosk tenant

2022-08-18T10:13:26.299Z


The search for a new tenant for the kiosk at Notzinger Weiher is a difficult undertaking for the district. Nobody has been found for months. Until then, the widow of kiosk legend Heini Link will continue. But she is also hoping for a speedy solution.


The search for a new tenant for the kiosk at Notzinger Weiher is a difficult undertaking for the district.

Nobody has been found for months.

Until then, the widow of kiosk legend Heini Link will continue.

But she is also hoping for a speedy solution.

Notzing – This news came as a shock to many bathing enthusiasts: Heini Link, the legendary landlord of the kiosk at Notzinger Weiher, died unexpectedly in the early morning hours of New Year's Day at the age of 72.

He only celebrated his 50th anniversary as a kiosk tenant in the summer of 2021.

For his widow Gertrud, it quickly became clear for the upcoming bathing season that she would not simply leave the kiosk closed until the district that owns the area by the pond found a new tenant.

However, the Erding native had not thought that she would remain as landlady for the entire season.

But the district's search for a new landlord is still going on - it is anything but a simple matter and has so far come to nothing.

The first application deadline was four months ago, on April 8th.

A suitable candidate was not found, and interest was not particularly great anyway, as Karin Fuchs-Weber, office manager and spokeswoman for District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer, confirms.

But at least: "We are currently in negotiations with someone," she reports.

Promising negotiations?

Fuchs-Weber does not want to say anything about this at the moment.

According to her, it will certainly be until September/October before a new tenant has signed a contract, especially since it is currently the summer holidays.

According to Fuchs-Weber, it will probably be spring 2023 by the time the innkeeper can be found on site at the pond.

The tender from the district states that the new tenant should take over the cleaning of the toilet facility, which has not been the case so far.

"That's nothing unusual," says Fuchs-Weber about this tender modality.

She cannot imagine that this might deter applicants.

Rather, she points to the skyrocketing energy prices, which are unlikely to make things any easier for future tenants.

In any case, the district also demands a general renovation of the kiosk building.

Heini Link, who could be sure of the support of his two daughters and his Gertrud over the past decades, built the kiosk himself in 1971, he was the only innkeeper at the Notzinger Weiher for the entire 50 years.

Yet:.

"Mr. Link didn't want his kiosk to change much," says Fuchs-Weber.

But now things such as pipes would have to be replaced.

As is well known, Heini Link's relationship with the district office was a bit tense after he had set up a youth campsite at the pond and Link saw this as a threat to the natural idyll.

With these concerns he had also gone public.

His widow Gertrud reports that this summer she actually expected a successor to come from month to month.

A few interested parties also stopped by her, but apparently everything fell through.

With the support of her daughter, she continued, reduced the offer – the currywurst, which is so popular with guests, “is of course still available” – and reduced the opening hours to 7 p.m.

Nevertheless: "Whether in the kiosk or at home - my husband just goes crazy.

He filled the whole room with his personality, while I was always more in the background.

We complemented each other very well,” says Gertrud Link, who eventually finds the work too much.

Her guests had expressed concerns about whether everything would be different in the kiosk in the future and had already asked her whether she didn't want to continue.

"But I'm 66 now, I've worked enough in my life.

We always did the kiosk on the side.

I don't want to continue without my husband," explains Gertrud Link, who recently became happy about her second grandchild, for whom she wants to have more time.

It will not be an easy task for the successor of the links either way.

"If I was doing everything here just for money, I would have stopped 30 years ago," said Heini Link to our newspaper on the occasion of his 50th anniversary.

Will his wife Gertrud miss the pond soon?

"I hate to admit it, but I probably do."

Tender calls for refurbishment

"My husband just goes crazy"

Source: merkur

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