Dispute over former monument:It still stands
“Don’t tear my house down”: Owner Claus Vogt in front of the Norwegian house in Eching, where the artist Hans Beat Wieland used to live.
(Photo: Franz Xaver Fuchs)
The artists’ house on Lake Ammer, where Hans Beat Wieland used to live, was supposed to be demolished on Monday. But the excavators weren’t there yet – and lovers of the house haven’t given up their fight either.
By Christina Denk, Eching am Ammersee
Claus Vogt stretches his index finger in the direction of the red Norwegian house. “Don’t tear down my house,” he shouts. On Monday, Vogt and two employees of the Landsberg district office faced each other in front of the old artists’ house on Lake Ammersee. The police are there too. “We’re removing this building,” replies a woman official.
The listed building, in which the artist Hans Beat Wieland used to live, became a black building 17 years ago as a result of a careless conversion. Since then, the house has been threatened with demolition. And now the responsible district building authority actually wants to get serious. It didn’t help that Vogt recently offered to restore the house to its original condition and turn it into a museum. However, the demolition originally announced for Monday has not yet taken place. The excavators were busy elsewhere.
The windows are already out: representatives of the interest group are slowly dismantling the Hans Beat Wieland house in order to save at least a few parts.
(Photo: Franz Xaver Fuchs)
The last word does not seem to have been spoken yet. Vogt has submitted an urgent application to the Munich Administrative Court. And the interest group that supports the museum isn’t giving up completely either. Jürgen Möhring from the interest group contacted Prime Minister Markus Söder.