The gap, this horrific gap… if Art Minister Markus Blume has his way, it shouldn’t be gaping much longer. The property that the Free State has leased for the construction of the concert hall planned in the Werksviertel and that Prime Minister Markus Söder ordered a “pause for thought” a year ago should be used temporarily for cultural purposes if possible. Blume announced this at the most recent meeting of the state parliament’s art and science committee.
It doesn’t matter whether the decision is ultimately for or against the Konzerthaus, it will still be years before construction begins. And it was “a shame to leave it fallow,” said Blume. Especially since one can see in many places in Bavaria what interesting, socially invigorating places are created as soon as “culture is given the space to develop”. The Free State has concluded a binding lease agreement for the area for at least 44 years with the owner of the Werkviertel, Werner Eckart.
The consideration is part of his “culture agenda” that Blume presented to the MPs. It is all about the attempt to “put things in order” in the many upcoming renovations of cultural buildings in the Free State and the two important new buildings in the Free State. In addition to the concert hall, this is the natural history museum Biotopia.