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Collected ideas for the future of the areas of the Christ Church community (from left): Pastor Klaus Firnschild-steuer, church caretaker Prof. Reinhard Koether, Pastor Andrea Borger, BRK managing director Jan Lang and student Dominic Häußler, who moderated the meeting.
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The Evangelical Community wants to have a new building built on the current kindergarten site - by an investor who should also be allowed to build something else there.
Gauting
- What's next for the area of the Evangelical Community with the listed Christ Church, especially the two kindergarten wings that are in need of renovation?
Around 70 interested people looked for brilliant ideas at a workshop on Sunday with architecture student Dominik Häußler in the Walter Hildmann House.
The 2,500 square meter kindergarten property between Krapfberg and Ammerseestrasse is to be redeveloped.
“For me it is very important to preserve the beautiful linden avenue,” emphasized senior advisor Ute Brack.
And a resident raved about the “dream” when he walked from the Lindenallee towards the church square.
For her children, the “Tjub” cellar room of the Evangelical Youth under the kindergarten is “always a feel-good place,” explained one mother.
Film priest Eckart Bruchner wanted the large meadow for the kindergarten children not to be built on in the future either.
In his lecture, Häußler presented a drone image of the area with the Christ Church, planned in 1927 by Munich star architect Theodor Fischer.
The Walter Hildmann House with its open glass facade, two halls that external dance groups also use, and lively community life was only opened in 1991.
Real estate assets do not bring returns
The focus of the information event was the future of the low-rise buildings in need of renovation at the legendary Aunt Thea's Protestant kindergarten, which is now run by the BRK.
Only thanks to the commitment of volunteer building committee members like Helmut von Kracht are the two low-rise buildings from 1955 and 1996 still usable for two kindergarten groups today, explained BRK district manager Jan Lang, who is also a member of the church council.
The community has no money for a new daycare center, he reported from a conversation with Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger.
But due to immigration, the need for childcare places in crèches and daycare centers is increasing.
Therefore, further planning for a new daycare center should be carried out “with the best possible state funding” in cooperation with the community – “and not ignore the needs”.
The plans also have a different background: the number of people baptized as Protestants is currently declining in Gauting, at around 2,900, emphasized Pastor Andrea Borger.
In its real estate security concept, the regional church requires that the individual congregations “cut their ties” and pay for necessary investments in buildings themselves.
According to the pastor, the church board therefore recommends a lease agreement with a socially oriented investor for the new daycare center.
The parish's real estate assets, estimated at ten million, are currently producing "zero returns," added the volunteer church curator, Prof. Dr.
Reinhard Koether.
The kindergarten property alone is worth five million euros.
“We don’t have the four to six million euros that were calculated for a new daycare center three years ago,” the church caretaker continued.
So that the parish can remain the owner, the property should be given a long-term lease with building rights - “half each for social use and half for income use”.
The participants made suggestions on a pin board that the church council wants to evaluate: For example, the preservation of youth rooms in the new daycare building and a church-related foundation as an investor were very important.
A creative center like in Starnberg, but also affordable rental apartments came as further ideas.
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