
The director of the museum barockscheune in volkach, margit hofmann, who also sits for the SPD in the kitzingen district council, reacts without understanding in a statement to the closure of the kitzingen town museum decided by the kitzingen town council. "How can it be that a city council ‘waves through’ such an important issue in a single meeting and makes such a far-reaching decision with a two-thirds majority in a hurry, without any rough discussion??", asks hofmann. It should be noted, however, that the kitzingen city council actually discussed the future of the museum in several meetings and decided six months ago that no more jobs would be budgeted for the museum – which virtually anticipated the closure that has now been decided on.
Hofmann points out in her letter that the historic building in the kitzinger landwehrstrabe was renovated in 2007 especially for the museum and furnished for the museum’s use. "The whole thing was financed with taxpayers’ money, public subsidies, and a considerable amount of receivables" – for a museum that had been in operation for just eleven years, from 2007 to 2018. She sees this as a waste of public money; the city of kitzingen is not a good example here.