As of: April 9, 2024, 7:07 a.m
By: Hans Kürzl
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The little ones were already fully involved: students decorated the container in a colorful way. © Kurzl
Vases, clothes, toys and even televisions: things that still have value to someone else are often thrown away. That doesn't have to be the case, says a Germeringen alliance and has implemented the idea of an exchange house. This should protect the environment and also your wallet.
Germering – It's something like a summer sale: lots of people queuing up to get a bargain. In this case, they are waiting to be admitted to the Germeringer Tausch House, which is actually a brightly painted container. There are shelves with cups, vases, dishes, clothes and toys. All the things that the visitors brought with them to exchange. That's the difference to a department store: you go in with one item and come out with another.
Too good to throw away
Germering's Third Mayor Sophie Schuhmacher has a small, older flat-screen television with her. "I don't have the cable for it anymore, but it still works," she emphasizes. So it's clearly too bad for the trash, and possibly a real bargain for someone else.
This is entirely in the spirit of Stefanie Pockrandt-Gauderer from the “Bündnis Zukunft Germering”, who came up with the idea for the container, now called the Swap House. “Why throw things away when you can still use them? Why buy everything new?” asks Pockrandt-Gauderer, who is committed to environmental and nature conservation and sits on the city council for the Greens. The motto is clear: “Everything that doesn’t go straight back into the cycle protects the environment.”
The exchange house is located next to the P&R parking lot at the Harthaus S-Bahn station, a little hidden by bushes. The area belongs to the city of Germering, but is located on the Munich corridor. That's why the help of Munich SPD city councilor Nikolaus Gradl was necessary. Now everything is dry for the next two years.
And there is even an idea of how things could continue afterwards: to the Volksfestplatz. “If it is over-planned,” explains Pockrandt-Gauderer. So far, however, this is only a first vague idea.
However, the original plan to locate the exchange house on the site of the nearby large recycling center failed. This met with little approval from political decision-makers. Pockrandt-Gauderer regrets this: “We would then have been in a fenced-in area with secure opening times.”
It works elsewhere: There is a recycling exchange at the large recycling center in Fürstenfeldbruck. There you can hand in items free of charge or purchase them for a small fee, supervised by the recycling center staff. In Germering, however, a team of eight volunteers now has to make sure that everything in the exchange house stays in its right place. If necessary, it also has to sort out items that are actually no longer usable or are even dangerous. Pockrandt-Gauderer is optimistic that this will work and that the exchange house will be accepted.
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Students gave the name
Incidentally, the name was given to a first class from the Theresen Elementary School. The students, together with the Wittelsbach middle school, designed the container in a colorful way. “It’s a nice sign that the children and young people identify with it,” says Pockrandt-Gauderer happily. The Tausch House received financial support from, among others, the Community Foundation for the Fürstenfeldbruck District, which sponsored the paint and a small solar system. The Munich association “Circulation Cabinets”, which has been supporting such projects since it was founded in July 2020, was also involved. One of the containers supported by the association is in Gröbenzell Am Weidegrund.
The Tausch-Haus
next to the P&R parking lot at the Harthaus S-Bahn station is open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. On Sundays it is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
You can find even more current news from the Fürstenfeldbruck district at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.