As of: February 6, 2024, 6:30 a.m
By: Gerti Reichl
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This is what the new Rottach town hall should look like in the future.
© Architects' office Knerer and Lang
The outcome of the referendum, in which the majority of 54.48 percent voted for the demolition and construction of the Rottach town hall, is a clear mandate for Mayor Christian Köck and the community to implement the plans as quickly as possible.
But mixed in with the joy of the result is also “a downer”: the way we interact with each other.
Rottach-Egern - On Monday (February 5th) at 4 p.m., the voting committee met again in the town hall to officially determine and announce the result - a formal act. Accordingly, the council's request and thus the new building planning desired by the local council received 54.48 percent (1471 yes votes), 45.52 percent (1229 votes) were against.
49.28 percent (1,299 yes votes) were in favor of the citizens' initiative (preservation of the clock tower and renovation), while 50.72 percent (1,337 votes) voted against it.
The voter turnout was 57.2 percent.
“We are happy that the citizens have made this decision,” says town hall boss Christian Köck (CSU), summarizing the outcome.
“Now we know what our turn is.”
After the referendum: Administration should move in April
What's next?
The local council will meet for its next meeting on Tuesday, February 20th.
Köck and the administration will use the time until then to prepare everything that was put on hold because of the referendum: further planning and the move of the Tourist Information (TI) to the Seeforum and the town hall administration to the rooms of the District Savings Bank.
As is well known, the TI should have packed the boxes in October; the municipal administration's move was originally scheduled for January.
“Now we have to make sure we can do this in April,” says Köck, emphasizing that the Kreissparkasse, as the landlord, has so far been very accommodating to the community and has waived rent.
As far as further planning is concerned, according to Köck, the design planning by the architectural firm Knerer and Lang has been completed.
Now it's time to start the tender for the demolition work and find a company.
Then you have to advertise the individual trades.
According to the final cost calculation, the municipality has to spend ten million euros for demolition, new construction and inventory.
Although the vote on Sunday, February 4th went as the local councilors had hoped, the announcement of the result was quite sober.
No trace of cheering.
“The situation was new for me because we had never had a referendum before,” says Köck.
Out of respect for the initiators, a factual presentation was necessary, explains the mayor, who also acted as returning officer.
This also meant that this time he did not refuse congratulations and a handshake from initiator Gunther Mair.
When Mair handed over the signature lists for the citizens' initiative to the town hall at the end of October, things went differently.
Looking back, Köck regrets that things became polarized.
“We don’t need that in the local community.
The decision to build a new building is the right one for the future of the town and our children.”
Thomas Tomaschek (Greens) reacts with relief.
“I am glad that it happened this way.” He also welcomes the referendum as a democratic means of voting.
“However, around 40 percent of citizens did not vote, that could have been more.
Maybe we can also get this proportion interested in local politics.”
After the referendum: Concern about coexistence in the community
Third Mayor Gabriele Schultes-Jaskolla (FWG) also reacts happily, “although I would have liked a clearer result”.
What she is most pleased about is that the citizens of the community have expressed their trust.
“That's been pretty good for us after the last few weeks.” For Schultes-Jaskolla, however, there remains a downer: “False and anonymous allegations were made in advance, and you can't just put that aside.” The fact that Stefan Berghammer from the funding and The Schutzgemeinschaft (FSG) had previously considered the possibility that those responsible in the community could manipulate the voting results made her blush with anger: “Anyone who accuses the community of something like that without justification is deliberately poisoning the civil society discourse,” says Schultes-Jaskolla.
She asks all citizens to take a very close look at who they are dealing with.
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