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One of the variants: In this sketch you can see the new sports hall in the south (top left) and the new school building extension in the north.
Whether this will happen is still an open question.
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A lot will change in the Bockhorn primary school: “In order to be able to create a school environment in the future that has nothing to do with the previous frontal teaching, a thorough overhaul of our existing buildings is necessary.” This is what Mayor Lorenz Angermaier outlined at the local council meeting on Thursday evening the mammoth construction project.
Bockhorn - According to the committee's unanimous decision, it not only requires the construction of a new school gymnasium on the site of the previous teacher's residence, but also an expansion of the school rooms in place of the current gymnasium and the partial conversion of the existing school buildings with a basic energy renovation.
What this renovation will look like is not yet clear, but the approximate cost is: around 17 million euros.
Since as many children in the community still attend primary school as 25 years ago and this number - on average 230 - is unlikely to decrease until 2039, Bockhorn needs rooms that not only meet this need structurally, but also meet the demands of one fulfill the learning landscape mentioned above.
This new method enables children and teachers to have a different form of teaching, divides the teaching of learning material into different, so-called clusters and, as an open all-day school, also fulfills the legal right to care, as will apply legally in Bavaria from 2026 (we reported).
“Today, more flexibility in teaching is necessary,” demands not only town hall boss Angermaier, but also school principal Friederike von Fraunberg briefly commented on the new format: “We can teach the children using a modern and open system and can support them more than before a completely different, better everyday school life than before, also for the teachers.”
In order to be able to implement the overall learning landscape concept, a so-called spatial function book was necessary.
All the necessary structural changes are noted there, which have now been implemented into concrete planning proposals by the project development office Meixner und Partner from Augsburg and presented to the local council.
“Based on this space requirement, which in the future will cover an area of 2,116 square meters and has been approved by the government of Upper Bavaria, we have developed a total of twelve variants for a thoroughly renovated school.
We examined their feasibility and assessed the costs; after all, not all structurally possible versions would be funded by the state,” explained managing director Max Meixner to the council.
The experts ultimately came up with an expansion of the school in the north of the site, which in turn could show two different possible construction measures.
In one of the proposed variants, a new sports hall with 792 square meters would be built in place of the previous teachers' residence and a new school building would be built next to existing buildings with 1,414 square meters; the school area here would be 4,278 square meters.
Another version would also provide for a new sports hall and a slightly smaller new school building with 1,095 square meters, which would lead to a total school area of 3,959 square meters.
The construction process for both variants could be such that after the teacher's house has been demolished this year, the school would be completely expanded by mid-2031, including a complete renovation of all existing parts of the building.
“If you build the gymnasium and school extension together, the construction time could be shortened to five years,” said Meixner, a qualified engineer.
But then it would be unavoidable to temporarily accommodate the students in containers.
When Hubert Strasser (Kirchasch Citizens' List) suggested that the dilapidated school building from 1950 should be demolished in any case, the planner replied that this building was "definitely capable of being renovated", but that state funding of at least eight million euros would then no longer be possible.
As the project progresses, further detailed planning is expected, including a Europe-wide architectural competition.