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Dachau's model entrepreneur: Anton (l.) and his son Matthias Hörl run the Hörl and Hartmann brickworks from Pellheim, which operates throughout Europe.
There is now a controversy with the city over the old company premises in Udlding.
© Norbert Habschied
The new land use plan is intended to determine where and how the large district town should develop in the next few years.
The Hörl family of entrepreneurs does not agree with the current draft.
Dachau – When Anton and Matthias Hörl opened the newspaper last October, they were “stunned”.
The two “Dachauers with heart and soul,” as the two entrepreneurs describe themselves, learned that the city council had agreed – with a large majority – on a draft for a new Dachau land use plan (FNP).
Its most important statement: The city should no longer grow on its edges.
Areas that were designated as possible residential development areas in the old FNP from the 1980s are to be given priority as green space in the new plan.
The councils largely agreed that there should only be external growth for businesses.
In the past there were discussions in the Dachau city council about the city's growth plans.
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Now the fact is that a land use plan has no legally binding effect.
“It’s just a goal,” explains Mayor Florian Hartmann.
The municipality simply writes down the intended type of building use.
It is important for Hartmann to emphasize that this does not result in building law!
The fact that Anton and Matthias Hörl, who run one of the most modern brickworks in Europe from Pellheim and who mayor Hartmann describes as “model entrepreneurs”, are still – at least – irritated by the city's development plans is due to an old promise from the town hall.
In summary, this said: The Hörl family is giving up their old brickworks in Udlding, and the industrial area of over 19,000 square meters will be converted into a “residential area with a kindergarten” in the long term.
This is the area at stake: the 19,100 square meter area of the Hartmann brickworks in Udlding.
© Norbert Habschied
Promised and forgotten: the fate of the Udldingen brickworks site in the land use plan
There are no written minutes or contracts of the discussions that began in the mid-1980s and continued regularly into the 1990s.
Only a land use plan from 1989, in which the old brickworks property is designated as a potential residential area.
“It was like a written promise for us,” emphasizes entrepreneur Anton Hörl.
In return, he had a recultivation plan drawn up for the area - at his own expense.
The Udldinger Weiher owes its existence to Hörl and Hartmann's financial strength as well as - in 1998 - an “Udldinger Weiher ideas competition”.
In 1999, the city council also decided to expand the 1989 FNP to include these new ideas for Udlding.
And in the 2000s, the new development area Udldinger Weiher-Nord was realized.
The old brickworks site, however, remained untouched.
“Although we made massive advance payments,” says Hörl, the city has not taken any initiative to develop the disused industrial site in recent decades.
In the currently planned land use plan, the draft of which the city council approved so enthusiastically in the fall, the standstill is even intended to be stipulated: the area is only shown as a green area.
The new land use plan envisages densification on the inside - only commercial space on the outside.
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What particularly annoys Anton Hörl and his son Matthias: “That we found out about it from the newspaper.
“You could have talked to us!”
They also attach importance to the fact that the property in question is a former company site.
“The area is completely sealed.”
Hörl family demands support from the city of Dachau
In view of the crisis that the construction industry is in and which also has an impact on the Hörl and Hartmann brickworks, the new land use plan, with the old brickworks site only as a green area, would have tangible financial effects for the family: Matthias Hörl: “It is a enormous loss of value.
That would put us in trouble.”
For this reason, various discussions have already taken place with the mayor and some political groups.
Mayor Hartmann did not want to comment publicly when asked by the local newspaper, but the Hörls reported that they had heard “positive signals”.
Especially since the Hörls are making a tempting offer: If they are allowed to build terraced, semi-detached and multi-family houses as well as a daycare center on the old brickworks site, they would make this daycare center available to the city rent-free.
But if the city doesn't accommodate them, junior boss Matthias Hörl says clearly: “We're happy to pay our trade tax in Dachau.
We have always been 100 percent committed to the Dachau location.
But we also expect the city to commit to us.”
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