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Café Backsteinchen: Opening is delayed - frustration among the sisters!
The Café Backsteinchen in Munich-Sendling has been delayed and will not open until the end of the year due to a lack of building permits.
Café Backsteinchen: Opening is delayed - frustration among the sisters!
There is news at Luise-Kiesselbach-Platz in Munich that dampens the anticipation of the new “Café Backsteinchen”. The café, run by sisters Alexa and Laura Steinke, was actually supposed to open this week. Instead, the doors of the future Beisel remain closed and the house in the park, which is in need of renovation, is currently a shadow of its former self. According to Abendzeitung, the circumstances are anything but pleasant: there is still a lot to do, before the café can finally welcome guests.
The planning was promising: the café was to become a popular meeting place in the park, with offerings such as soup, bowls, tarte flambée, beer, children's specials, coffee, cake and the popular Aperol Spritz. But the reality looks different. “It's complicated, but we're on the home stretch,” says Alexa Steinke, but it's clear that summer operations are no longer feasible.
Approvals and Delays
The Steinke sisters have been fighting to implement their project for two years and have already won the tender during this time. Nevertheless, the building application has been with the Local Building Commission (LBK) for a year without the hoped-for approval having been received. According to [tz]. Although the planning department announced that the building permit had been sent out “recently”, nothing had been received by the sisters at the time of going to press.
Once approved, the work requiring renovation is expected to take at least six months. New windows and doors, a toilet facility and the expansion of a glazed roof terrace are planned. New requirements must also be met, such as regulations on rainwater drainage, before construction work can begin.
A meeting place for the community
Despite the discouraging facts, the operators' goal remains clear: to create a livable meeting place in the park for the Munich population that enlivens social life in the area, especially with regard to urban development, which, according to Our Munich, strives for a high quality of life.
The people of Munich should be invited to Café Backsteinchen with a warm “Hello”. But until that happens, all the sisters can do is keep their fingers crossed and wait for approval as soon as possible so that they can finally welcome guests next spring. In the meantime, residents can only enjoy imagining what could one day emerge here.