Ceremony with lots of color and music: multi-generation house officially inaugurated

Created: 11/28/2022, 7:00 p.m

By: Volker Ufertinger

Great atmosphere: the inauguration of the multi-generational campus of the BRK came (from left) Edith Maruska (home management nursing home MGC), Jan Lang (district managing director BRK Starnberg), Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger (Mayor of Gauting), CSU Member of Parliament Dr.

Eiling-Hütig, Christa Stewens (Honorary Chairwoman of the BRK District Association Upper Bavaria), District Administrator Stefan Frey, Michael Kuffer (Chairman of the BRK Starnberg Board), Dr.

Martin Rieger (district chairman BRK district association Upper Bavaria), pastor Klaus Firnschild-steuer (Protestant pastor Christ Church Gauting) and pastor Georg Lindl (Catholic pastor Gauting).

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The multi-generational campus (MGC) of the BRK was an ambitious project from the beginning.

Now it has been inaugurated with some delay.

Gauting

- The foyer of the BRK Nursing Home is decorated in gold, blue and white.

Wasn't there something?

Exactly, those are the colors of Gauting.

The design is no coincidence.

"We feel totally rooted here," said Jan Lang, district manager of the BRK Starnberg.

At Starnberger Straße 36, a total of 86 senior citizens will later feel at home.

Currently there are 28.

It took a long time before the house – and with it the entire multi-generational campus – could be inaugurated.

"Unfortunately, a little thing called Corona got in the way," said Lang in his humorous speech.

Last Friday the time had come: An illustrious round with district administrator Stefan Frey, mayor Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger, Member of Parliament Dr.

Ute Eiling-Hütig, district councilor Martina Neubauer, Christa Stewens (former social affairs minister and honorary chairman of the BRK district association in Upper Bavaria), Andreas Bader from the investor BG Immobilien and many others found themselves in the foyer of the nursing home.

Children and seniors should benefit from each other

To start with, boys and girls from the neighboring children's home "Henry and Henriette" sang the children's song "There was a mother who had four children".

That too: no coincidence.

The retirement home is part of the "MGC" multi-generational campus. Old and young should live together there and benefit from each other, and the children's home offers space for around 100 children.

What that means was made clear by the evangelical pastor Klaus Firnschild-steuer in the ecumenical prayer with the catholic pastor Georg Lindl.

He told how a child's smile can change the world.

Musicians from the Bavarian Philharmonic also added glamor to the ceremony, for example with the Adagio theme from Beethoven's "Pathétique".

Perhaps the atmosphere was so good because the history of this most complex BRK project had been difficult.

Christa Stewens told of 13 tough executive committee meetings before the decision to invest in the campus could be made – an unusual step for the BRK.

It became a legend that Jan Lang sang for everyone after sessions that didn't bode well, to lift the spirits.

He dismissed it ("That was meant metaphorically"), but Stewens remembered it with pleasure.

It seems that helped.

120 Ukrainians were accommodated until the end of October

And then: Corona.

The construction was long overdue.

But it goes without saying that a pandemic is a bad time to open a nursing home.

It didn't happen.

When the Ukraine war finally broke out and the district had to accommodate 120 refugees on the fly, district administrator Stefan Frey asked Lang about the empty building next to the Lidl.

"I got to know the BRK as a strong partner even in this situation," he said, pointing out that gold, blue and white are also the colors of the district.

The last refugees moved out at the end of October, the A wing is currently being renovated.

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Brigitte Kössinger was happy and relieved.

For more than ten years now, the plan to provide care for the elderly in Gauting has been on the agenda, simply because there was none before.

"We had a need and we recognized it together," she said, referring to the municipal council and senior citizens' advisory board.

She attested to the district administration that she had "done an excellent job".

In particular, she mentioned the former Senior Advisory Board Chairman Wolfgang Schrader, who had made contact with the BRK but was unable to attend the celebration for health reasons.

Now a lounge bears his name.

At some point, a green market should also find its place on the site.

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That left the facility manager Edith Maruska, who - again no coincidence - had dressed in blue and white.

She is fully convinced of the concept of the house communities of 14 seniors.

"When the residents tell me that they had a good coffee in the day restaurant, that they went shopping or that they read to children, the vision has become concrete for me."

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