Overview
- The town council approved a unanimous plan to donate the proceeds from 10 one-ounce gold bars, worth about €40,000, to 30 local groups.
- A municipal employee found the bars during mowing in October, and the gold became town property after no one proved ownership by the April 17 legal deadline.
- Beneficiaries include volunteer fire brigades, carnival associations, music and dance clubs, youth clubs, a seniors’ club, a golf club, and a fly-fishing group in Possendorf.
- Police in Dresden are storing the bars, with a public handover next week where the gold will be tested on site and sold at once so every club gets the same price.
- Recipients must report how they used the money by year’s end, and one school association plans to help buy a sunshade for its outdoor “green classroom.”