| 00:00 | | A 150-square-meter apartment with six rooms for €500 per month. |
| 00:04 | | You can hardly get an apartment like that anymore. |
| 00:08 | | Klaus Roth and his partner have lived in such an apartment in Neckartailfingen for 24 years. |
| 00:14 | | The two assumed that nothing would change in their living situation |
| 00:18 | | before they received mail from the municipality. |
| 00:21 | | What is going on here? I was asked to come to the town hall. |
| 00:25 | | I thought they just wanted to talk to me, and now |
| 00:28 | | they are giving me an eviction notice. They told me, well, |
| 00:31 | | you know that we need flats for the asylum seekers. |
| 00:34 | | The Roths won’t settle for that, so both parties have met in court. |
| 00:41 | | Klaus Roth and his partner Maria Seidl are trying to clear the air |
| 00:45 | | with Mayor Gerhard Gaedicke at the Nürtingen district court. |
| 00:49 | | The retired couple will be evicted from their six-room apartment in Neckartailfingen. |
| 00:53 | | They are willing to do so, |
| 00:56 | | but the price and the surroundings must be right. |
| 01:00 | | So the main point was to get a moving allowance, not only for the costs, |
| 01:04 | | but also to clean out the apartment and put the furniture back together in the new apartment. |
| 01:12 | | They also don’t want to pay a deposit because |
| 01:15 | | they didn’t pay for their current apartment from the municipality. |
| 01:19 | | These demands still have to be approved by the municipal council. |
| 01:22 | | At the moment, the mayor has offered the couple a two-room apartment. |
| 01:26 | | I have now offered them another apartment to look at, which is the third one we’ve offered |
| 01:30 | | to Mr. Roth and his partner. By this, I think you can see that |
| 01:35 | | as landlords we are very responsible towards our tenants. |
| 01:39 | | No one is being thrown out on the street. We are offering an alternative. |
| 01:43 | | If these options aren’t sufficient, the community |
| 01:46 | | has no others to offer. —The retired couple have been |
| 01:50 | | living in this apartment for 24 years. Klaus Roth has |
| 01:54 | | put a lot of initiative and money into the rental apartment. |
| 01:57 | | However, last year the community terminated their |
| 02:00 | | rental agreement due to its own needs. —We, like all communities |
| 02:05 | | in Esslingen county, have to take in and |
| 02:10 | | accommodate asylum seekers, and that’s the reason why we want to use this apartment. |
| 02:16 | | Neckartailfingen still has to accommodate a total of nine refugees. |
| 02:20 | | This six-room apartment with 150 square meters, |
| 02:23 | | a balcony, and a garden is earmarked for them. On the other hand, the question arises as to why |
| 02:29 | | the over-70 pensioner couple are being forced to move out? |
| 02:32 | | Klaus Roth has already suffered a stroke and |
| 02:35 | | a move is unreasonable burden for him. —He’s not healthy, |
| 02:39 | | and his partner is also very incapacitated health-wise. |
| 02:42 | | So for me there is a question of whether this eviction and move go beyond reasonable expectations. |
| 02:46 | | Should both sides not agree in March, the judge must make the ruling |
| 02:49 | | and assess the limits of reasonable expectation. |
