Munich (dpa / lby) - The Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter (SPD) welcomes the conviction of the owner of the watchmaker's house. "After the owner of the watchmaker's house had already been sentenced to rebuild, the Munich district court has now also determined that he has made himself punishable for coercion and property damage," he said on Friday in Munich. "You can argue about the amount of the fine, but one thing is certain: anyone who disgusts tenants and demolishes listed buildings illegally will not get away with it."
The buyer of the house had previously been sentenced to a fine of 132,500 euros for the illegal demolition of the listed watchmaker's house in the Giesing district. On Friday, the district court imposed 250 daily rates of 530 euros each for damaging property and coercion. The court found it proven that he hired a contractor to intentionally demolish the house with an excavator in 2017 so that it could then be demolished.
The Uhrmacherhäusl has occupied local residents, conservationists and politicians for years. It is part of the Feldmüllersiedlung ensemble in the Giesing district, which was built between 1840 and 1845, and was a listed building - until the fall of 2017 when the excavator came, which is now the subject of the lawsuit. In 2021, the Bavarian Administrative Court decided that the buyer had to rebuild the watchmaker's cottage with its historic building dimensions.
