Gauting: New apartments at a reasonable price – Starnberg

Outside, gardeners are just planting small moor grass plants, paving stones are stacked on pallets, inside a few door frames are still missing. But otherwise the new houses of the Fünfseenland housing association in Stockdorf are largely finished. Most of them have already been taken, but five apartments are still available – and at prices that are probably unbeatable in the Starnberg district and shortly before the first tenants are due to move in, who are expected to arrive in June.

The expenses for the three new buildings on Maria-Eich-Straße in the north of Stockdorf amount to around 7.5 million euros, reported cooperative board member Kai Herzog during a tour on Tuesday. Two buildings from the 1950s, which were demolished, previously stood on the property near the train station. The three-storey residential buildings, which were then erected over a two-year construction period, are not barrier-free, but low-barrier, as the authorities say. For example, there are still doorsteps from the living room to the terrace or balcony. However, in every house there is an elevator that runs from the underground car park to the upper floor. Separate parking spaces were created for bicycles, playgrounds were created and green areas. “Great,” says Irmgard Pietsch during a tour of the new apartments. The former head of the Stockdorfer Bürgerbüro is a specialist in two respects: She is a member of the supervisory board of the cooperative and has lived with her family in a cooperative apartment on Maria-Eich-Straße for almost 55 years. And apparently like that.

The 24 apartments that have now been completed are intended for people who earn comparatively little. “So that the average consumer can also afford an apartment in the Fünfseenland,” as board member Claudia Schuldes-Hott said. If you want to move in there, you need a permit; Applicants are grouped into three funding levels depending on their income. The application is a hurdle for some, but it is really cheap: Thanks to the subsidy, the basic rent per square meter is six to eight euros, depending on the category. The monthly expenses for the two- to three-room apartments in Stockdorf are in the order of 270 to 630 euros, not including additional costs. At the viewing appointment on Tuesday, the mayor of Gauting, Brigitte Kössinger, once again made it clear how important such offers are; for educators or nurses, for example, or to be able to keep young men who are involved with the fire brigade on site.

In Gauting alone, around 200 people have a certificate of eligibility that enables them to apply for publicly funded housing, reports Daniela Kaindl, who is responsible for allocation at City Hall. But an apartment like the one in Stockdorf is by no means only available to those who live on the subsistence level. This was emphasized by Claudia Schuldes-Hott from the cooperative board and actually encouraged people to apply.

In the north of Stockdorf, an entire district has been created with comparatively low rents. The Wohnen association and the Fünfseenland cooperative have a total of 15 houses there, some of which have been renovated and modernized in recent years, but some of which have also been newly built.

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The Fünfseenland cooperative was formed eleven years ago through the merger of the cooperatives founded in Gilching and Gauting-Stockdorf in the 1940s. Since then, the cooperative has managed a total of 389 apartments and three commercial units, including the new buildings presented on Tuesday. Aside from the properties on Maria-Eich-Strasse in Stockdorf, her properties are mainly on Römerstrasse, Tassilostrasse and Max-Klinger-Strasse in Gauting and on Sonnenstrasse in Gilching. It is the smallest of the three housing cooperatives active in the Starnberg district: The Wohnen association has around 2,500 units, and the Starnberger See housing cooperative has another 570.