As of: February 12, 2024, 10:56 a.m
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Fits, wobbles and has air: The architects Marco Goetz (below) and Walter Waldrauch hung the poster advertising their citizens' project on the loggia of the historic train station building in Starnberg on Friday.
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Marco Goetz and Walter Waldrauch are going on the offensive: Since Friday, the two Starnberg architects have been advertising their project to redesign the loggia there with a six square meter poster at the historic train station building on the lake - and are hoping for as many donations as possible.
Starnberg - Anyone who has been coming to Starnberg's city center or to the See train station since Friday can no longer claim that they have never heard of this project: "It won't work without your donation," says an oversized poster that will remain open until further notice hangs directly on the loggia of the historic train station building and can therefore also be seen from Maximilianstrasse.
“It” – that is the planned redesign of the loggia, which the Starnberg architects Marco Goetz and Walter Waldrauch announced publicly for the first time in the summer of 2022.
The aim is to turn this dirty corner, which has gone almost unnoticed for years, into a business card for the city, a place to feel good with a wide range of possibilities.
But: The city currently does not have the required 60,000 euros - which is why Goetz and Waldrauch hope that as many Starnbergers as possible will open their wallets and contribute to the project with a donation, turning it into “their” project, so to speak.
“We are currently heading towards the first 10,000 euros,” says Marco Goetz in an interview with Starnberger Merkur.
Now the campaign is to get a boost - on the one hand through the poster measuring two by three meters, and on the other hand through 3,000 postcards, which the two colleagues started distributing around three weeks ago.
“It’s a bit like a pyramid scheme,” says Goetz.
The motif on the small postcard and on the large poster is identical.
It shows the loggia as the two architects imagine it: the walls painted in a warm white tone, the wooden ceiling with a white and red striped coat of paint, large ball lights for friendly lighting and a newly paved floor, as well as all the junk like that Boxes with the main electrical connection and the external gas meter were removed, as was the telephone set from “an English telecommunications company that has long since gone bankrupt,” as Goetz said last November in the Starnberg city council's building committee when he and Waldrauch presented the project.
However, Goetz admits: “We realize that it is not easy to make the project present in people's minds.” But if that succeeds, he is in good spirits: “The good thing is: the project is so simple that it “Everyone can imagine it.” He is therefore very confident that the required amount will be raised.
But why should citizens donate to not only spruce up a municipal building, but also to take it to a new level in a very important place?
“Since the city has very little financial ability to implement such projects, we are convinced that the direct commitment of the citizens to their city is needed,” Goetz and Waldrauch said in November.
And once the dirty corner has disappeared, you can imagine a lot of things there that would benefit the people of Starnberg: from a bright, covered waiting area to a small oasis for one or another cultural use.
If the donation account receives proper access in the next few weeks, Goetz is confident that he will be able to implement the redesign planned for this year.
“We are currently noticing that more doors open than close when we talk to people from Starnberg about the topic,” he says, using a metaphor: “There is still a long way to go before the moon, but we are very confident that we can get there and come back again.” The necessary discussions have already been held with the monument protection authority and the monument protection permit for the work should be available soon.
If you would like to support the campaign: The donation account has the IBAN DE37 7025 0150 0430 0520 84, intended use “Donation Loggia Bahnhof See”.
Donation receipts will be issued if necessary.
And if in the end too little is received, Goetz promises that every donor will get back the money they have transferred up to that point.
But he's not giving it any thought at the moment.