Holzbräu-Areal in Ebersberg could remain a fallow for years – Ebersberg

The question of when a milestone anniversary has never been answered conclusively – but five years are often reason enough to celebrate at least a little. However, it is not to be expected that the corks will be popped this year on the fifth anniversary of the takeover of one of the most valuable areas in the district town. Because the development of the wood brewery property sold in 2018 is not progressing – it is completely unclear when something will happen on the site.

A well-grown fallow area not far from Marienplatz, which arose because of discrepancies in the question of use – this has already happened in Ebersberg. The area between the train station and Marienplatz was unused for decades until the shopping center was built there in 2011. Several times, plans for a development failed because the ideas of potential builders and the city were too far apart. It is quite possible that this story will now be repeated at the other end of the city centre.

Except for the protected old building, everything else on the property may be demolished

This is where the wood brewery site is located, which the new owner, the Euroboden company, is planning to undergo a fairly radical transformation. Only the old hotel directly on Sieghartstraße, which is part of the protected Marienplatz ensemble, is to remain standing. The former bakery branch on Eberhardstraße has already been demolished, and the resulting wasteland has been surrounded by a wooden wall for a good year and a half.

The bakery branch was demolished the summer before last, and later a fence was built around it – but that’s all that happened on the wood brewery site.

(Photo: Christian Endt)

And according to the investor, that could remain the case for some time. “We had hoped to find a solution more quickly,” says Stefan Höglmaier, head of the Grünwald real estate company, in a press release. “We are currently discussing various planning variants with the city and are trying to come to an agreement soon on the stratification of the individual topics.” Until then, however, “the property must – for insurance reasons – be fenced off and closed to the public until further notice”.

And this fenced lot could get a whole lot bigger in the foreseeable future. Because, as the company explains when asked, they want to carry out “preparatory measures such as examinations and reports, demolition and disposal” on the area in a timely manner. In fact, according to building regulations, with the exception of the old hotel, all buildings on the site may be demolished, and no permit is required. Which in the worst case – i.e. if the city and the investor cannot come to an agreement – means that there will be a fallow area in the north-west of Marienplatz for a long time.

The city and the investor have been negotiating for years, and apparently they haven’t come much closer

It’s not entirely unlikely, the negotiations between the city and the investor seem to have been deadlocked for years. In the late summer of last year, there seemed to be movement in this matter, the responsible city council committee was actually supposed to discuss the investor plans – but the item on the agenda was then canceled at short notice and adjourned indefinitely.

Both the city and the investor name the lines of conflict in a similar way: “The central issues are above all the future use of hotels and restaurants and the associated parking spaces,” writes Euroboden on request. This was already an issue in the course of the consultations that ended in mid-September: The investor is planning very limited hotel operations in the building to be preserved on Sieghartstrasse, and a new building for the catering trade is planned in place of the demolished bakery. The rest of the area is to be completely developed with residential buildings.

As early as September there was talk of making provisions in the development plan to ensure that the rest of the hotel was not converted into apartments. This has to do with the second issue: the number of parking spaces. If, for example, a later change of use resulted in a greater need for parking, the city could collect a fee from the investor – but more parking spaces could not be created in the area, which is usually full of parked cars anyway.

It is not only with the city that there is still a need for coordination

Mayor Ulrich Proske (independent) does not dare to forecast how long the coordination between the city and the investor will last: “There is no new status, the negotiations are very extensive”. Euroboden seems to be a bit more optimistic: Although they do not want to commit themselves, “we hope that we will reach the above-mentioned agreement with the city in the first half of 2023 and then the next procedural steps can be taken”. So the preparation of a development plan, which could take around two years for a project of this scope, according to both the city and the investor.

But not only with the city, but also with the hotel operator, an agreement is still pending. In a press release sent out at the end of December, Euroboden announced that “the rental contract with the operator of the Hotel Bäumer Bräu was terminated a year ago. The contract now expires on December 31, 2022”. However, if you walk past the hotel, you can easily see that it is still in operation a good month later and rooms in the Holzbräu can be booked on the website until further notice.

For how long, neither the hotel operator nor the investor want to give any concrete information. When asked, Euroboden writes: “We are still in negotiations with the hotel about the exit conditions.” That sounds even more concise with Christian Lehmann, whose Lehmann Hotel und Gaststätten Holding GmbH operates the Holzbräu, among other things: “We’re still here.”

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