Will the north of Munich get a third wind turbine?
The city of Garching has presented plans to build a plant.
The steel giant would be higher than its counterparts in Fröttmaning and Freimann.
Garching
- The wind turbine is to be located between the Freisinger Landstrasse and the A 9, about 1.5 kilometers from Dietersheim, a district of Eching.
It should be used to generate energy, but also for research.
The Garching construction committee has already given its approval to the project.
The city council must now decide on the preparation of the development plan.
The applicant is the Regensburg company Ostwind Erneuerbare Energien GmbH, which intends to build a 250-meter-high wind turbine in the special area of wind power already shown in the zoning plan.
A location that Mayor Dietmar Gruchmann (SPD) called "very interesting" five years ago.
The city of Garching also signaled political will with its designation in the zoning plan.
In contrast to previous years, the land negotiations have now progressed so far that a wind turbine can be built.
"We would have liked to have had two or three, but that doesn't give the space available," said Götz Braun (SPD).
Corresponding land sales would still have to take place.
"Basically, I am positive about Garching's plans"
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Size relationships: This visualization illustrates the dimensions of the wind turbine in comparison to the Church of St. Catherine.
In the background you can see the Echen district of Dietersheim.
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The hub height of the planned wind turbine is 165 meters, including the rotor blades, it is a total of 250 meters high.
It is therefore a good twice as high as its siblings in Fröttmaning and Freimann.
The latter is still under construction.
The problem: With this size, the Garching wind giant does not meet the “10H regulation”, according to which a distance to residential buildings that corresponds to 10 times the height of the wind turbine must be maintained.
It is possible to fall short of this requirement, the development plan must be adapted accordingly.
For this, however, the consent of the neighboring municipality, i.e. Eching, is required.
"We must not endanger the good neighborly relations with Dietersheim, for example, or negatively influence their development in the south-west", said Michaela Theis (UG) to concerns.
So do the Echinger veto?
This is obviously not to be expected.
Mayor Sebastian Thaler (SPD) promises his approval on request.
He sees wind energy as a "workhorse of the energy transition" and positioned himself in his appeal to the Bavarian state government, together with 50 other mayors: "The 10H regulation must be abolished." says Thaler, but "basically I am positive about Garching's plans".
"Only two or three systems make sense"
In view of the envisaged energy transition, the Garching city council also agrees that wind energy is important for “regenerative energy generation,” said Bastian Dombret (FDP).
But with the one system that already has a negative impact on the landscape, you do not have the potential benefits from energy generation.
“Only two or three systems make sense.” In the committee, the Greens welcomed the fact that “something is finally happening”. Above all, they see further developments, such as agro-photovoltaics below the wind turbine, as a useful synergy.
The CSU, on the other hand, was of divided opinion, although “we are positive about wind power itself,” emphasized Jürgen Ascherl.
According to Albert Biersack (CSU), how the shadow falls must still be looked at closely.
Ascherl would also have welcomed more intensive public participation before the development plan is changed.
In other municipalities it has been shown that “wind power can certainly generate headwinds in the citizenry”.
“It's not about beauty or aesthetics,” said Mayor Gruchmann.
"We have a duty to make every possible contribution to the energy transition." Especially since it is not just about energy generation, but also about profit for research.
Because Ostwind cooperates with the Chair for Wind Energy at the Technical University of Munich, which sees the wind turbine as a "very great asset to teaching and also the allocation of research topics", says the research assistant Franz Mühle.
The fact that the system manufacturer SiemensGamesa is on board is also “very positive for Gruchmann.
In one week it is up to the city council to decide on the preparation of the development plan.
You can find all the news from Garching and the Munich district here.