The municipality of Brunnthal will soon be able to cover its own need for care places itself. This was one of the important findings of the citizens’ meeting in the country inn on the topic of the senior citizens’ center in Hofolding-West on Thursday evening. Mayor Stefan Kern (CSU) and project manager Sabine Loritz made it clear that there would be priority occupancy for Brunnthal citizens in the planned facility with 70 full-time and 20 short-term care places in addition to day and short-term care and employee apartments. But the senior center is also needed in order to be able to cover the growing demand beyond the community in the district of Munich.
Hartmut Joithe, board member of the Novita Foundation and the Leonhard Poth Foundation with administrative headquarters in Oberhaching, explained that the company “Seniorenzentrum Brunnthal-Hofolding”, a non-profit subsidiary of both foundations, would be the operator. The investor is the Swedish pension fund Hemsö, one of the leading owners of social real estate there.
Residents should remain part of the village community
On the approximately 15,000 square meter property on Sauerlacher Strasse, a “quarter for older and young Brunnthal citizens” is to be created, it is said, with a contemporary concept such as the “Rudolf and Maria Gunst House” in Graefelfing and the non-profit “Maria Stadler House”. ” in hair. Joithe is also the managing director there. He said life in detention centers in the 1960s had become the norm for seniors “in private, in community and in public”. A quarter will be created in Brunnthal, which will include the nursing home, residential units with low-threshold care and day care places, as well as a multi-purpose café. The concept includes turning the rooms of those in need of care into micro-apartments with a small kitchen and, if desired, their own furniture. A “living room” with a fireplace in each residential group makes life in community possible, and exchanges in the café enable life in public.
Overall, the well-sounding concept sees the municipality of Brunnthal as a “caring community” with which active exchange is maintained and the residents remain part of their village community. The planned costs for the residents of about 99 euros per day “all inclusive” would be in the range of other tariff facilities such as the Caritas St. Rita old people’s home in Oberhaching.
Only one citizen complained that “instead of building an underground car park, parking spaces will be placed in the botany and the ground sealed”. Joithe said these extra parking spaces are rarely needed. The money for an unnecessary underground car park is needed to equip the micro-apartments and eat-in kitchens. Architect Bertold Ziersch from Gräfelfing added that the 40 “alternative parking spaces” to the west of the staff house would remain permeable to water and would be equipped with ecologically valuable nutrient-poor grassland.