As of: March 7, 2024, 7:30 a.m
By: Stefanie Zipfer
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For centuries, the Zieglerbräu in the old town has stood for hospitality and conviviality.
But that's over for now, the future of the listed property is uncertain.
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Until recently, the city was confident that it would be able to quickly renovate the Zieglerbräu and rent out the ground floor as a restaurant.
But now it is clear: the renovation will be expensive and complex.
Dachau – The purchase of Zieglerbräu in spring 2019 has brought the city little luck so far.
The plan to redesign the listed Zieglerbräu as an administration building with a smaller restaurant and no event rooms fails due to money.
In view of the current budget situation, the city council's decision to use part of the old Zieglerbräu event rooms for cultural events, such as a municipal cabaret, also seems illusory.
The financing problem is a “side effect of the corona pandemic,” according to the town hall.
Finding a new tenant for Zieglerbräu is proving difficult
Last summer, landlady Andrea Schneider announced that she would end her lease with the city and give up the restaurant on the ground floor - which meant that the city had to look for a new tenant.
That would also prove complicated.
According to the city, there was an interested party for the restaurant, but there were deficiencies in the fire protection of the building, which in the eyes of the city's building inspectorate turned out to be so serious that a lot of money and time had to be invested in order to do so to make the Zieglerbräu open to the public again.
In the language of the building authority, it sounds like this: “Any immediate continued operation” of the house is not permitted in view of the planned change of use – from the hotel to the town hall, including cultural activities.
A planning team has therefore been commissioned to examine the “structural and building law consequences” of the change in use.
The city will then present the results of this examination to the building and planning committee.
When asked, no one in the town hall wanted to give a date as to when this result would be available.
In view of the fact that the vacancy of the prominent property is not only visually unsightly, but also represents a loss of quality of life in the old town, some city councilors are now urging that the city take immediate action.
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City councilors are calling for a rethink: priority should be given to renovating the Zieglerbräu restaurant instead of expensive administrative restructuring
As reported, the ÜB/FDP city councilors Peter Gampenrieder, Ingrid Sedlbauer and Jürgen Seidl are calling for the preliminary planning for the expensive conversion of the hotel into administrative rooms to be stopped for the time being and for the renovation of the restaurant on the ground floor to be given priority.
Markus Erhorn (Free Voters Dachau) went even further in the city council on Tuesday.
He called for a fundamental decision as to whether the additional offices for the city administration should really be built?
A town hall extension into the Zieglerbräu would be “nice to have”.
On the other hand, according to Erhorn, a tavern for the old town is “really important”!
Mayor Florian Hartmann said he was open to all ideas and would be happy to “discuss extensively” the future of the Zieglerbräu.
The mayor is grateful to the Ziegler innkeepers for their “enormous commitment to the Dachau gastronomy and hotel industry”.
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When asked, city building department manager Moritz Reinhold did not want to rule out whether this would also include selling the building.
Currently, however, the requirement is (still) to “make the transition period until reopening as short as possible”.
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