The municipality of Unterföhring is toying with a new bridge for cyclists over the Isar.
There are already alternatives.
But can they also be used?
Unterföhring
- Roughly estimated, the municipality of Unterföhring is investing 10,000 euros in a feasibility study to create a new cycle path connection across the Isar to Munich and the northern part of the English Garden.
There is even talk of building a new bridge.
What surprises some locals, because: There is already a bridge connection to the English Garden - it just isn't connected to the cycle paths in Unterföhring.
One thing is clear: Neither the Herzog-Heinrich-Brücke (Föhringer Ring) nor the railway bridge are suitable for cyclists or pedestrians, only the Leinthal Bridge in between offers a narrow and dangerous strip.
So do you need a fourth bridge?
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Possible alternative: the St. Emmeram Bridge leads over the Isar to the northern part of the English Garden.
It lies in the Munich hallway.
© Martin Becker
A possible alternative would be two bridges on the Münchner Flur to the north of the St. Emmerams mill.
The covered wooden bridge over the Isar near the statue of Saint Emmeram is very popular with walkers and cyclists.
A wide stone bridge spans the Isar Canal less than 100 meters northeast of it.
The path behind it, marked on the maps as Mittlere-Isar-Straße, runs right next to the Unterföhring municipality border at the all-weather tennis facility from Sport-Scheck.
This forest avenue parallel to the Isar canal ends after 450 meters at a huge metal fence at Föhringer Ring.
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The Mittlere-Isar-Straße ends as a dead end at this fence at the Föhringer Ring;
The Leinthal Bridge can be seen to the left of the garbage truck, the pumping station to the right.
© Martin Becker
So the end of the line - but wouldn't there be an option somewhere to build a sensible cycle route to Münchner Straße in Unterföhring?
In the town hall, the Unterföhringen building authority manager Lothar Kapfenberger knows the somewhat hidden dead end.
"The idea of docking with it is basically a good one," says Kapfenberger when asked by Münchner Merkur.
However, there is "a large mixture of land issues".
Private owners, the city of Munich, the Free State of Bavaria, the federal government: you have to get a lot of interests under one roof.
Which is not easy.
For example, the situation of the pumping station, which lies between Föhringer Ring and Leinthaler Brücke, should be taken into account.
Field closed
And take a path south of the tennis facility across to Münchner Strasse by the Wöhrl fashion store?
Here, too, the property situation stands in the way: There is even a staircase with wooden railings coming from the Isar Canal - but a no-pedestrian sign is unmistakably mounted on the field behind.
And even if this tangent could be drawn as far as Unterföhring, the unsatisfactory cycle path situation along Münchner Straße between Feringa and Ringstraße would remain there.
Intelligent docking or additional bridge: the feasibility study should provide possible solutions.
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