Unterhaching: Mayor disposed of town hall furniture – district of Munich

How the Unterhaching councilors were looking forward to this Wednesday: finally back to the town hall! For three years, the committee had to meet abroad due to the pandemic, first in the Kubiz, then in the children’s home. But when we re-entered the large meeting room, general astonishment was followed by collective horror: What is it like here? The furniture is gone!

Now there was nothing hidden behind the doors of the largest room in the town hall. The administration had set up the tables from the Kubiz for the 30 members of the municipal council – also a piece of furniture that the local politicians have been used to for a while. Only in the cultural and educational center everyone had their own table, while in the meeting room two people had to share one. With a width of 1.20 meters and a length of 1.40 meters for the office-white board, it’s quite cozy. But that certainly wasn’t even the worst of it. On the contrary, meeting participants missed their half-round wood paneling, which appeared to be much more dignified and embodied the character of a parliament rather than the current functional facility.

CSU parliamentary group spokesman Korbinian Rausch stated that it was like sitting in a classroom. And that after they had been able to move out of the children’s home as a meeting place. In the past, on the other hand, everything seemed to be of one piece: the coats of arms of the partner municipalities behind the mayor’s large desk, the portraits of the former heads of town hall on the opposite wall, the engraved names of the municipal council members on their seats.

The chairs were designer pieces and went under the hammer

The committees had met in the meeting room from time to time during the pandemic and the members had already sat at the white tables there. It just hadn’t occurred to anyone that the old furniture might have been thrown away. Rather, it was assumed that the fixed rows of tables had been expanded in order to temporarily create more space. But as the local politicians now almost all gathered tightly together on wooden chairs in front of the mayor and began to mutiny, he admitted: the furniture had been thrown away, the chairs had been sold to the highest bidder. According to Panzer, these were designer pieces. That’s why they didn’t end up in the bulky waste, but under the hammer. It’s not that unusual: furniture from Munich City Hall is said to have been sold at flea markets in the 1970s.

According to Panzer, it was no big secret that the old stuff had to be removed. That was in the by-laws of the municipality. Probably somewhere in the fine print, most of them hadn’t noticed that anyway. Only now that they can no longer lean back in the chairs with the sagging leather seats, which rocked so beautifully, does displeasure stir. You could at least have asked the municipal council before you rip everything out and dispose of it, was the accusation from the committee. Not everyone was happy with the former seating, however, as these tended to rub off on light-colored trousers.

However, it remained unclear why only the table and chairs of the chairpersons were not disposed of and why the mayor even got a nice, new, comfortable armchair. In any case, Julia Stifter (non-affiliated) felt “like in the cheap places”. However, this is only a temporary solution. The new furniture hasn’t been ordered yet – an opportunity to decide together on the new seating.

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