Former restaurant in Marne

Former event and restaurant property with the Tonhalle plus snack bar in a central inner-city location of the small town of Marne with around 6,000 inhabitants. The 890 m² plot is built up with a building complex consisting of a two-storey front building, a rear hall building with stage, and a further two-storey extension. The original building was, according to a free estimate, erected around 1900 and was extended and converted several times in the following decades.

The most recent use was as a restaurant with event rooms, partly for residential purposes and as a snack bar, according to available documents with two residential units. The property is currently vacant and not let; an interior inspection was not possible as the owner could not be reached. In 2018 the Kreis Dithmarschen issued a preliminary building permit ruling that an accommodation business with catering and apartment units was permissible under planning law, subject to demolition of the Tonhalle.

Given its age, heterogeneous building structure and visible condition, the building fabric is regarded as economically depleted and ripe for demolition; an economically viable renovation does not appear feasible. The calculated demolition costs of around 195,000 € clearly exceed the land value, so the market value (Verkehrswert) has been set at a symbolic amount of 1 euro.

Wording of the local court, taken from the official auction notice.