The "steep tooth" of Egmating: Architectural fault at the school causes pain

Created: 2022-12-13, 3:55 p.m

By: Josef Ametsbichler

Outstanding: The stairwell attached to the Egmatingen school was actually supposed to open up seven roof apartments - a plan that never came to fruition.

What remains is the "steep tooth", its fate: uncertain.

© Stefan Rossmann

The municipality of Egmating is looking for a concept for childcare in the town centre.

The planning for the school is made more difficult by an architectural sin.

Egmating

– Probably the biggest advantage of Inge Heiler's new office is that she no longer has the steep tooth of Egmating in front of the window.

"The room is smaller, but the view is nicer," says the mayor (ABE) of the small southern community - meaning that she looks over to the maypole from the 2nd floor.

To put it more undiplomatically, which Heiler would not say for precisely this reason, it also means: what is probably the second worst building sin that she inherited no longer determines her daily panorama.

Mayor Inge Heiler has moved the municipal office to the second floor.

There is space for the after-school care center on the ground floor of the town hall.

© Josef Ametsbichler

Seven apartments above the school - nothing will come of it, but the stairwell is already there

The steep tooth of Egmating is the new stairwell, which docks onto the elementary school and towers over the building by one floor.

Unlike the fire station in Münster, which was also too high, the Egmatinger Ober-Pfuschbau, this was intentional.

The plan of Heiler's mayoral predecessor Ernst Eberherr (CSU) would have been seven apartments, each with almost 30 square meters under the raised roof of the building from the 1970s, which was in need of renovation.

"It was planned under the impression of the refugee crisis in 2015," says Heiler, keeping his diplomatic tone.

"But you have to look at the facts."

The architects consulted by the municipality are not enthusiastic about the idea because the school falls into a different building class with the addition.

This means, for example, more complex fire protection and stricter test specifications.

In addition, the potential tenants would have to share at least part of the stairwell with the school, for which it would serve as an escape route and transition to the sports hall - a crossing traffic that raises safety concerns.

From below, the staircase at the school also seems strange.

© Josef Ametsbichler

Then there is the narrow space between the cemetery wall and the school, where, for example, there would have to be space for garbage cans for the new residents – not to mention that their parking spaces would have to be taken away from the already heavily used municipal parking lot across the street, Heiler explains.

She calls the idea of ​​the apartments at the school a combination of different uses and says: "I'm glad we didn't do that."

What to do with Egmating's "steep tooth"?

The only question that remains is: Should Egmating have the painful, steep tooth pulled, that is, should the stairwell be removed?

Mayor Heiler calls that an option, but not as a total demolition.

According to her, around 300,000 euros of taxpayers' money are in the stopped extension, which is still locked and in the shell state.

"It shouldn't have been in vain." One possibility is to only remove the top floor.

A second, to add a floor to the school, but to use the space for something less complicated in terms of building law, such as a ventilation system.

"Or we leave it and put photovoltaics on it," says Heiler.

"It wouldn't be the prettiest version, but probably the cheapest."

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Up close and personal: the new town hall (left) with balcony and canopy, and the old town hall (right), which is being demolished.

© Josef Ametsbichler

School extension after the demolition of the old town hall was a topic for the municipal council

The municipal council will have to decide when it comes to developing a plan for the school in 2023, which the municipality shares with its neighbors in Oberpframmern.

Heiler lets it be known that their ideal solution consists of an extension instead of the old town hall, which is already in a state of dilapidation.

With space for two classrooms and an auditorium.

The mayor speaks of creating development potential for the coming decades, for example for expanding school operations from two to three parallel classes.

"Now is the right time," says Heiler.

She moved with the municipal office to the second floor of the new Egmating town hall building – actually also planned as living space – because the municipality can save two million euros for a new after-school care center building.

There are three offices and a large conference room.

The day-care children now play in the municipal council meeting room on the ground floor and in the other former chancellery rooms, while the community hall remains opposite the committee, as before.

Two school classes will soon be moving into the first floor so that the old town hall, in which they have been housed so far, can be demolished.

Oversized town hall benefits of child care

In this way, the municipality uses its limited momentum in the town center on the way to an overall concept.

The people of Egmating also benefit from the magnificent building of the new town hall, which is completely oversized for a member municipality in the Glonner administrative community as an office for a mayor plus an office worker.

Of course, Heiler doesn't say it out loud, but remains diplomatic: "The town hall is in Glonn."

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