After expansion at Kapellenfeld in Warngau: A day care center is growing up

Created: 09/21/2022, 06:42

By: Katrin Hager

Walk in: Eva Vaupel and Martin Wolf present the new rooms in the day care center at Kapellenfeld.

However, the children may only move in once the authorities have given their approval.

© Thomas Plettenberg

The craftsmen have left: the extension to the daycare center at Kapellenfeld in Warngau is awaiting approval from the authorities.

The reference is not the last big step: the facility should be independent.

Warngau

– Right on time for the start of the new childcare year, most of the craftsmen at the daycare center at Kapellenfeld in Warngau have left.

Moving into the new rooms, which is still pending, is not the only big step planned for the daycare center: it is to become independent in the future.

The demands on childcare have grown steadily, as has the need.

The municipality of Warngau has recently built a lot to do justice to this.

In 2015, a new daycare center was opened on Kapellenfeld for kindergarten and after-school care children, which was organizationally assigned to the existing St. Johann children's home with kindergarten and crèche places.

It only kept up with demand for a few years.

The extension began in March this year: a mirrored extension with a group room, a movement room and function rooms.

The expansion was largely completed by the end of the holidays, says Eva Vaupel, deputy head of the kindergarten.

A few small things still have to be done, especially on the outside area, the last deliveries of furniture and game utensils are still pending.

The space cannot be used at the moment, acceptance and approval of the new rooms by the youth welfare office are still pending.

The release should be a formality.

It is planned for next week, adds her colleague in the Kapellenfeld daycare center, deputy after-school care manager Martin Wolf.

The Kapellenfeld day care center is to become independent

At the latest with the extension, however, the daycare center at Kapellenfeld has outgrown the status of a "branch".

The management team of the St. Johann children's home has therefore been striving for a split for some time, as Regina Eberl explains.

She is currently the general manager of the house for children with the two day-care centers in Bergfeld and in Kapellenfeld, which are sponsored by the Catholic Church.

The kindergarten children are to be divided equally in the future.

Thus, 65 places would be available in both facilities in Oberwarngau.

As before, the crèche with two 24 places for the very little ones would remain on Bergfeld under the direction of Eberl, and the after-school care center with 50 places for the “big ones” of primary school age on the Kapellenfeld under the direction of Vaupel, Eberl explains the plans.

The size of the organizational units would then be ideal again from a pedagogical point of view.

"The teams would be smaller, agreements more flexible," says Eberl, who herself works part-time as a mother.

"Everything has always grown, grown, grown - that no longer suits us." If all those involved and the authorities give their blessing, the daycare center at Kapellenfeld could be organizationally independent from 2023.

In a way, she's growing up.

Close cooperation is also planned.

Children's home at Bergfeld: Planning for renovation is underway

In the meantime, planning for the renovation of the Bergfeld children's home is underway, and the ordinariate recently gave the green light for this, as was announced in the municipal council.

The 40-year-old building is to be tailored to meet today's needs.

"We used to have children between the ages of five and six who only went to kindergarten in the mornings," Eberl recalls.

“Today, children between the ages of two and three quarters and three years old come to kindergarten.

Some only stay in the morning, others for lunch, others all day.

A child who is there for more than eight hours also needs a place to rest.

You can't do everything in one room with 25 children."

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In order to exploit the full potential, not only space is needed, but also staff.

Warngau is also struggling at the moment.

Three full-time positions are vacant, two of them at Kapellenfeld.

"We had to turn children away for the New Year," admits Eberl.

However, the team pulled out all the stops, colleagues stocked up, shifted, spoke to parents about where and when the need was most pressing.

Of the 27 children who were not accepted into the children's home in July, six remained at the start after the holidays.

Despite everything, the management team is starting the new care year with optimism, whatever the challenges.

"The team is fully involved," says Vaupel.

Extension almost eleven percent more expensive than estimated

Ernst Bauer from the technical building office in the town hall explained to the Warngau municipal council the further cost tracking for the expansion of the daycare center at Kapellenfeld.

There were still a few supplementary offers: an additional blackout for 4700 euros, the use of drying devices when installing the screed (1700 euros), fire protection cladding in dry construction (4500 euros), an addition to the electronic locking system (3600 euros), wind sensor, switch and mirror lamp (700 euros) and the extension of the lightning protection system (5900 euros).

The sum for the prescribed upgrade of the existing interior doors with a pinch protection against children's hands caused frowns - 5555 euros for a narrow cover.

Overall, Bauer calculated a cost increase of almost eleven percent to 1.378 million euros compared to the cost estimate for 2020.

In 2020 the costs were estimated at 1.242 million euros, in 2021 the updated calculation was 1.279 million euros.

"On the whole, we can be happy if you know what's going on with the building materials," commented Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (FWG).

“Every second increase says it comes from Ukraine.

It's almost hard to believe what's coming from there."