Modern search for hostels: Educator leaves Lenggries because he cannot find a larger apartment
Created: 12/28/2022, 1:00 p.m
By: Nick Scheder
Sascha Heckmann was looking for a larger apartment in the Isarwinkel for more than half a year.
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Because he couldn't find a bigger apartment, educator Sascha Heckmann moved away from Lenggries.
The mayor is aware of the housing shortage, but no solution is in sight.
Lenggries – Sascha Heckmann was looking for a larger apartment in the Isarwinkel for more than half a year.
Because he couldn't find any, the educator in the Lenggrieser kindergarten is now returning to his homeland.
Mayor Stefan Klaffenbacher is aware of the problem, but he has no solution for the housing shortage.
Educator in Lenggries gives up looking for an apartment after nine months
It's always been his dream.
mountains as far as the eye can see.
Live and work where others vacation.
Sascha Heckmann (27) had made it: In September 2020 he took a job as a teacher in the St. Josef Lenggries kindergarten.
"I really liked that." He found a place to stay relatively quickly, a one-room apartment in Schlegldorf.
But now, two years later, he wanted to find a larger apartment in Lenggries or the surrounding area - and gave up the search after nine months.
“My girlfriend and I have given ourselves a deadline of the end of September.
When we still couldn't find anything, we decided to go back."
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Community regrets educator leaving
It didn't take long for the two to find an apartment in their home country, in Feuchtwangen.
Heckmann has already had various job offers – educators are desperately wanted everywhere.
Also in Lenggries, which is why the facility now has to close a gap by March.
Heckmann was considered a popular and dedicated educator.
That's why his employer - the municipality of Lenggries as the body responsible for the facility - also regrets the decision.
"It's a pity that he's going away," says Mayor Stefan Klaffenbacher (free voters' community) on request.
Sascha Heckmann © private
The mayor is aware of the problem
He is aware of the problem.
"We have a lot of pressure in Lenggries from the Munich metropolitan area." That's why living space is a scarce commodity - not only in Lenggries, but in the entire district.
Doing something about the housing shortage is very difficult.
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Heckmann made enough of this experience.
Because he liked it in the market town and his girlfriend had finished her studies in biomedical engineering, the two decided to move in together in the Isarwinkel.
The apartment in Schlegldorf was sufficient for Heckmann, but it would definitely be too small for both of them.
Apartments either gone quickly or unaffordable
A modern search for hostels began.
And ended in frustration.
"If the apartments - hardly online - weren't gone right away anyway, they turned out to be priceless, or the landlords didn't want our little dog." It was brutally difficult to find anything at all.
And impossible to get the nod.
Also when Heckmann extended the search radius.
To Warngau.
"The mountains are the main thing." Additionally frustrating: Numerous properties in Lenggries are almost entirely unused or only occupied during vacation periods: holiday apartments and second homes.
Mayor: “As a municipality, we have hardly any power”
Housing for locals and the free real estate market: "It's difficult that we can influence that," says community leader Klaffenbacher.
The situation with rising property and rental prices is due to the whole development, says the FWG politician.
"As a community, we don't really have a say in that.
Unfortunately, we can't create endless new living space that easily, but we're trying to organize something for people who urgently need it." Models for locals are also being considered for new construction projects.
Educator had to give up his dream
But that doesn't help the teacher from the Lenggrieser kindergarten.
His decision has been made, he is returning home.
On the one hand, with a heavy heart, "because it was good for me here".
On the other hand, he is looking forward to a new chapter.
He gives up his dream.
Because of a failed search for a hostel.
"But then I have to tackle a new dream."
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