Dear Mayor, dear Maria, dear Stadtrat Waldhör, dear Bernhard,
I just can’t calm down because of the hasty demolition of the so-called Hüfner Villa at the train station over the course of a weekend and your press statements. For decades I have tried to preserve the cityscape, or at least what was left of it, and to fill it with sensible uses. In many Sunday speeches, Grieskirchen’s official politicians also referred to irretrievable losses in the townscape through the destruction or defacement of many Gründerzeit buildings. After all, at the end of the 19th century Grieskirchen tried to become a town. You would have had the right, indeed the obligation, to reject this building notification because the demolition project did not correspond to the image of the site. After considering the provisions of the site protection, a prohibition of the demolition should have been ordered in any case. Your hypocritical arguments in the press article in the OÖN on Monday don’t work! Even if a higher authority had finally approved the demolition, valuable time would have been gained to prevent the owner from damaging himself.
With not friendly, but very sad greetings
dr Georg Spiegelfeld, monument conservator
Source: Nachrichten
