Public Building Committee Meeting on the Plans for the New Steinmühle Building

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, the City of Marburg, in collaboration with the Steinmühle School Association, held a public information event at the Steinmühle Forum. During this event, the Building Department, with the support of our planning firm “Schöne Aussichten,” presented the plans for the construction of a new middle school building for the school association.

To this end, the nonprofit association has acquired its own land for the first time in its more than 50-year history—the meadow in front of the Forum. The need for a new building was emphatically explained by school principals Björn Gemmer and Bernd Holly, as well as Egon Vaupel, the chairman of the school association; Dirk Konnertz, the managing director, presented the plans to date. In addition to the proposed changes to the land-use and zoning plans, the design by the architectural firm Oesterle was also presented.

Mayor Kahle explained why the city of Marburg would support this project, and Cappel’s local council chairman, Wahlers, announced the Cappel local council’s approval. Although Kahle, the city’s commissioner for construction, considered the proposed start date of summer 2017 to be quite ambitious, overall, the impression after the event was that, in principle, nothing stands in the way of the construction project and that there will be room for another graduating class by the time the transition to the G9 system is complete.