Munich: 1200 apartments are to be built on Dreilingsweg – Munich
The plans for a new residential and school location around Dreilingsweg are becoming more concrete. There, in the north of Obermenzing and Aubing, between the A 8 and A 99 motorways, where fields and green spaces alternate with herb gardens and isolated properties, the municipality will create a new residential area in the coming years. Up to 1,200 apartments are to be built in two phases on an area of around 20 hectares, twelve kilometers from the city centre. In addition, day-care centers, a supermarket with 2000 square meters of retail space, a high school and north of the railway line directly at the S-Bahn station Langwied, a second secondary school or a vocational school center.
Whether a new elementary school will also be needed is not yet clear: “It was examined whether the elementary school An der Schäferwiese can be expanded or whether an additional elementary school needs to be created,” says the draft, which is now being presented to the Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied district committees and Pasing-Obermenzing for the hearing. The prospective settlement, located between the Munich-Augsburg railway line, the street An der Langwieder Haide, the Mooswiesenstraße and in the south the edges of the residential area Jaspersallee and the Bergsonstraße, is already the planned urban development for the next 20 years (STEP 2040). And it is a small part of the much larger “Mühlangerstraße/Langwied” structural concept, which covers around 200 hectares south of the motorway junction.
The network of footpaths and cycle paths closes the Langwieder lakes
With its wide areas and the existing network of footpaths and cycle paths, which leads to the Langwieder Sees, among other things, the area has a high recreational value – and it should stay that way. For example, the Negrellistrasse, a dirt road that runs along the railway line, is to be “secured in the long term” as a pedestrian and cycle path connection, according to the draft. From the point of view of the urban planning department, a pedestrian and cycle path bridge over Bergsonstraße is also “desirable” – among other things, in order to better network the vocational school at Bergsonstraße 109 with the future school locations on Dreilingsweg. Aubing’s and Pasing’s local politicians even “demand” such a footbridge.
Everyone agrees that the regional green corridor Dachauer Moos/Freisinger Moos/green belt Munich-Northwest, which is connected to the Würmtal, must be preserved. In its function as an area where cold air is produced and a corridor for fresh air, this green axis winds its way through the newly planned district on the northern edge and also includes the Langwieder Heide biotope, which is of national importance. Keeping them free, so town planners die, is “elemental”. A 30 meter wide buffer zone should therefore separate the biotope from the planned vocational school center. From the point of view of the local citizens’ representatives, the green corridor “must be taken into account in the competition”. In addition, “beyond the newly defined school location, no development should take place in a northerly direction”. This has to be secured by planning law.
The district committees are campaigning for a grammar school alongside the vocational school
The two district committees also ask to check whether the grammar school or another secondary school could be located next to the newly planned vocational school location – in order to use school sports areas together. Because half of the land south-east of Dreilingsweg belongs to the city and half to a project developer who has already signaled his willingness to develop the area, the planning department expects to be able to build there “in the short to medium term”. The key data for a development plan was already decided by the city council in December. On the other hand, a “longer-term realization period” can be assumed in the area between the street An der Langwieder Haide and the Dreilingsweg. Because there are many private properties there.
Reconciling the interests of all of these owners represents “an obstacle” to the construction of a compact settlement, the draft says. A “perspective overplanning” is nevertheless recommended. And the traffic? Even before a competition is announced, the Pasing and Aubing district committees are demanding that a large-scale traffic concept be drawn up and presented to them. Above all, the southern neighbors, above all the interest group Alte Allee/Bergsonstraße, fear that with the implementation of the new quarter, the traffic on their already congested residential streets will again increase significantly – including more noise and exhaust fumes.