In Moosach, a completely new urban quarter is being built on the Knorr-Bremse site.
The topping-out ceremony for the first building has already been celebrated.
Munich - brass music, draft beer and lots of happy faces.
The topping-out ceremony was held on Wednesday on the former industrial site of Knorr-Bremse AG.
The first of many to come.
Because in Moosach, north of the Olympic Park, a new quarter is to be built.
The Opes Immobilien Group took the first step in this direction yesterday with the “Mo'ander” office complex.
"The office building creates protection for what is behind it," says Opes managing director Jürgen Büllesbach.
And that should ultimately become a completely new city quarter.
Around 50,000 square meters of office space and around 500 apartments are to be built here.
"It should be a mixed-use quarter that doesn't fold up the sidewalks in the evening - no office park and not just a place to live," explains Büllesbach.
Shops, restaurants, a daycare center and a nursing home will also be part of this.
There is no such thing in the area so far.
Munich: New city quarter in Moosach should be ready in 2028
Opes is investing around half a billion euros in the new quarter, which - if everything goes according to plan - should be completed in 2028. It is being built almost all around the listed main administration building of Knorr-Bremse. The group, world market leader for braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles, has relocated its location further north of the area. Modern buildings for research and development have already been built there. There is space for offices, apartments and a large park.
Exactly as Heinz Hermann Thiele had imagined.
The entrepreneur, who died at the beginning of the year, had campaigned for this project with strategic foresight in order to create something new and groundbreaking.
A pointer to Munich's future.
Above all, it was important to Thiele that people with lower incomes could also afford an apartment here.
40 percent of the apartments are subsidized or offered at reduced prices.
That is why her husband did not want to sell the apartments, but only wanted to rent them, said wife and widow Nadia Thiele at the topping-out ceremony.
In addition, Büllesbach and Co. are now trying, in particular, to implement the sustainability standards that were desired.
"We are trying to become an energy self-sufficient quarter," says the Opes managing director.
"Let's see if that works."
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This is the plan: Jürgen Büllesbach (left) explains to Mayor Dieter Reiter what is to be built on the Knorr-Bremse site.
© Oliver Bodmer
Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) is definitely looking forward to the "topping-out festival" in the new quarter.
“It will shape the north of Munich”, predicts Reiter, who found the design of the district very successful.
He is particularly pleased with the affordable living space.
The mayor praised Knorr-Bremse as a model company and he was glad that there were companies like the Opes Group who dare to do something.
Because a 98 meter high tower is also planned on the site.
Mo'ander in Munich: around two and a half years until the next topping-out ceremony
The Mo'ander separates the quarter from Moosacher Strasse to the south.
It is right next to the Oberwiesenfeld underground station.
Enclosed by a natural stone facade, it should offer space for office space on almost 20,000 square meters.
The name is made up of the Moosach district and the architecture, which is reminiscent of the winding course of a natural river, a meander.
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The shell is in place: But it is still up to the imagination what the Mo'ander might look like one day.
© Oliver Bodmer
It will probably take two and a half years until the next topping-out ceremony, but it won't be the last.
Because there are still many festivals to celebrate before the new quarter is in place.
