ASV gets Halle for 36 million euros

Created: 09/30/2022, 13:50

By: Stefanie Zipfer

A gray functional building from the 1970s is the Georg Scherer Hall at the ASV.

The building is now dilapidated and the club needs a new building.

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The Georg Scherer Hall on the ASV site in Dachau is dilapidated and no longer up to date.

The city has now taken a step forward in planning a new replacement building.

Where the artificial ice rink is today, a modern multifunctional hall is to be built for over 36 million euros.

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– The current Georg-Scherer-Halle, according to City Councilor Jürgen Seidl (FDP), is “actually unreasonable”.

The damage to the decades-old building is obvious, in the event of any accidents the board would be liable.

"If something happens there," said Seidl recently in the main and finance committee, "you can't even imagine it."

In fact, the clock is ticking for the old hall.

For example, the committee had to approve 27,500 euros on Tuesday in order to bring the dividing curtain technology into shape.

But further measures are pending.

Basically, as the city administration put it, "the hall is in a condition that only allows continued operation for a finite period of time".

The operation is already “only possible under certain conditions”.

There is no question that the association, which has around 4,000 members, but also the city itself - the ASV hall houses the school sports of the elementary and middle school south as well as a childcare facility - need a modern new building.

The problem with the new hall is just an old city council decision from 2017, which says: The Schererhalle should be reached on the site of the current artificial ice rink;

However, the new construction may only take place when it is certain that a new ice skating rink to be built will be operational for the next season.

But because the city has no money, the construction of the ice rink was postponed last year - at least until 2026. And even if the costs for both projects have not yet been determined down to the last cent, Treasurer Thomas Ernst already knows: The savings of the city for both buildings "won't be enough".

Whether the two projects are "decoupled", as the city council jargon calls them, or whether they only build a covered multifunctional hall instead of an ice rink - as provided for in a joint application by the CSU and SPD, was not an issue in the main and finance committee on Tuesday.

Rather, it was a matter of deciding now what the new Georg Scherer Hall should look like if it can be built at some point.

Because apart from the finances, according to Lord Mayor Florian Hartmann, the building law procedure takes time.

Hartmann: "We will certainly need another one to two years before we have an approved plan." This is followed by a Europe-wide tendering process.

According to the mayor, the unclear question of how to link the two construction projects "is not slowing us down at all at this point in time".

In this respect, the city councilors were able to listen in a relatively relaxed manner when architect Nicolas Neumann from the Munich office "Studio Corso" suggested seven possible scenarios.

Scenario 1 was the simplest and the cheapest at around 10 million euros: A simple school sports hall would be built.

Scenario 7, on the other hand, would be the luxury version of a triple gymnasium: It would meet the requirements of the 1st Bundesliga volleyball league, offer space for 2500 visitors for a wide variety of events, have childcare and several spacious additional sports rooms;

an 11,000 square meter multi-storey car park would also be built.

Cost of this variant: 44.9 million euros.

In the end, the city councilors in the committee decided on the middle ground: Scenario 4, which costs an estimated 36.4 million euros.

This sum already includes construction price increases of 10 percent each for the years 2023 and 2024.

Sports officer Günter Dietz (CSU) admitted: "That's definitely a lot of money.

But we should do something that will also be good for the citizens and the club in the future.” SPD city councilor Anke Drexler also warned against “thinking too small”.

The ASV needs space to be able to continue its “successful concept of childcare”.

FDP man Seidl emphasized that "the city will continue to grow and we must therefore position ourselves for the future".

In concrete terms, the selected variant now provides the following on a floor area of ​​4600 square meters: a multi-storey car park with 241 parking spaces, a three-field hall, a grandstand for 1500 people, space for childcare and the office as well as several equipment, multi-purpose and fitness rooms.

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The demands of the Volleyball-Bundesliga GmbH for a first division game operation, which were last communicated by letter, are not fulfilled.

In order to be able to play volleyball in the first division, the new hall at ASV would need a clear height of 12.5 meters.

Lord Mayor Hartmann reported to the city council that he had "taken the liberty of asking the Volleyball-Bundesliga GmbH" "to what extent they would support us if we built something suitable for the first league".

The answer, according to Hartmann, was a long time coming and then turned out to be as expected: "They don't support us at all."

After all: According to the statutes, the hall variant now selected by the committee with a clear height of ten meters is suitable for playing in the second volleyball league.

You can find more current news from the district of Dachau at Merkur.de/Dachau.