As of: March 15, 2024, 4:00 p.m
By: Bettina Stuhlweißenburg
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Working together: (from left) MvB project manager Michael Sandbichler and Caritas managing director Petra Schubert with Holzkirchen's mayor Christoph Schmid.
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From summer onwards, the Winklbauer Höfe will be growing between Valleyer Weg and Angerstraße – with almost 80 apartments and lots of extras.
To help the future residents find their way around, they will be assigned a “neighborhood manager”.
A novelty in Holzkirchen.
Holzkirchen - Apart from the road construction site in Valleyer Weg, there is currently nothing to indicate that a new district will probably be built on the 8,300 square meter meadow between Valleyer Weg and Angerstraße in 2026.
With 78 apartments for seniors, families and singles and day care (we reported).
Because space is expensive, real estate developer Max von Bredow Baukultur GmbH (formerly Quest Baukultur GmbH) is pursuing the idea of the residents of the Winklbauer Höfe sharing common areas: coworking, two guest rooms, a garden and a yoga room.
“Experience shows that it is necessary to coordinate this, especially when almost 80 apartments are moved into at once,” explains project manager Michael Sandbichler.
Who uses coworking and when?
Is the guest room already occupied?
How does the app work, which can be used to reserve a car or cargo bike from the district's own fleet?
“That requires structures,” says Sandbichler, “because the property management doesn’t do that.”
Building voluntary structures
A so-called social neighborhood manager is supposed to help the residents develop these structures, which are ideally voluntary.
Because Max von Bredow Baukultur (MvB) does not have its own neighborhood managers, it has entered into a partnership with Caritas Miesbach.
As soon as the Winklbauer Höfe is finished, the social enterprise will probably provide a specialist for ten to twelve hours a week to support the process of setting up volunteer structures - until the residents are able to manage their neighborhood themselves.
As Petra Schubert, managing director of Caritas, explains, the neighborhood manager will probably also offer consultation hours, probably in the Winklbauer Höfe café, for which Caritas is also responsible.
She runs it as an inclusion café where mentally ill people can work under supervision.
In addition, Caritas is responsible for the day care with 25 places and the assisted living planned for the Winklbauer Höfe.
Participation and togetherness between generations
But neighborhood management is not just about establishing voluntary self-government: “We want to promote the active participation of all residents and the coexistence of generations,” explains Schubert.
“In addition, the new quarter should be integrated into the town so that it is well anchored in Holzkirchen.”
While neighborhood management has been used as an urban development tool in large cities since the 1970s, it is a novelty in Holzkirchen.
“We are also practicing this in this professional form for the first time,” says Sandbichler.
Caritas, on the other hand, already has experience with this – although not in a new district.
According to Schubert, a generation manager works in the Caritas multi-generational house in Rottach-Egern and a neighborhood manager works in the service housing for seniors in Miesbach.
According to Schubert, a degree in social pedagogy is not necessarily required for this task.
As a rule, the specialists come from the social sector, have relevant professional experience and the necessary soft skills.
The neighborhood management is not free for the residents: According to Sandbichler, it probably costs around 70 cents per apartment and per day.
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