Foundation stone for Berger town hall: enough space to write history
Created: 11/27/2022, 08:00
By: Tobias Gmach
On Friday (from left) architect Sebastian Dellinger, third mayor Elke Link, mayor Rupert Steigenberger, building official Sabine Öchsel, deputy mayor Andreas Hlavty, CSU member of the state parliament Dr.
Ute Eiling-Hütig and District Administrator Stefan Frey.
© Dagmar Rutt
With the laying of the foundation stone for the town hall at Huberfeld, the Berger municipal administration heralds a new era.
Subsidies still form a buffer: but the costs of 15.9 million euros will certainly not remain.
Berg – The path to the new Berger municipal archive still leads over a red temporary wooden bridge and then down a steel construction stairway.
Around 60 people came together in the basement of the new town hall on Friday morning - and that in sunshine.
How is that possible?
The basement is still under the open sky.
On the concrete slab, between the already standing cellar walls, the Bachhaus brass band played.
Representatives of the community and construction companies, local politicians and elementary school students celebrated the symbolic laying of the foundation stone for the new administration building on Huberfeld.
In fact, those involved in the major project lowered a time capsule into a brick base.
Deposited in it: current issues of the local newspapers and community leaflets, a set of euro coins, three painted certificates from the Oskar Maria Graf elementary school students and one from the community itself. The latter emphasizes, among other things, why the building is necessary.
After all, the old town hall from 1963 has already been rebuilt four times and extended four times.
Before Mayor Rupert Steigenberger closed the time capsule, he recalled the groundbreaking at the end of May.
At that time, he himself considered that the total costs of 15.9 million euros calculated for 2020 could remain.
Now when asked, he said: "It's as certain as Amen in church that it will be more expensive." In the past six months alone, construction costs have risen by nine percent.
Where could the project end up?
“I don't get involved in extrapolations.
That would be a grab bag,” says Steigenberger.
After all, the municipality has not yet calculated the 1.4 million euros in subsidies from the federal and state governments.
"We still have that as a buffer," explained Steigenberger.
District Administrator Stefan Frey also addressed the finances in his speech: "It is something very special
Steel and wood construction on 3200 square meters
More citizens, more tasks, more employees: In order for the municipality to meet the requirements, it is building a modern steel and wood construction on the approximately 3200 square meters.
It is supplied with renewable energy using photovoltaic and heat pump technology.
A total of 40 workplaces, a meeting and wedding hall and an archive with 1890 running meters of roller storage space are planned in the building with a star-shaped floor plan.
Berg, first mentioned exactly 1200 years ago, can still write a lot of history.
Because the archive is expandable.
So that this also applies to the entire town hall, two family-friendly apartments with 110 and 130 square meters are planned.
They should definitely have this function for 20 years, after which they could be scope for expansion.
The construction of the town hall already has a long history: in 2012 it became apparent that the building on Ratsgasse would be too narrow.
Between 2014 and 2018, the then mayor Rupert Monn successfully negotiated the purchase of the land with the Archbishop's Ordinariate and the Berg Filialkirchenstiftung.
The municipal council then decided in the meeting on June 12, 2018 with 15:5 votes for the location at Huberfeld.
At the end of 2024, the employees are to move into the new town hall.
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