After a debate in the municipal council: new plans for the central bus station in Gmund

Created: 2022-01-24 05:22

By: Katja Schlenker

A new central bus station is to be built in Gmund.

This is what the variant with a gable roof would look like.

© Löhle Neubauer Architects

Gmund - New designs for a central bus station in Gmund have now been presented to the municipal council.

At the end there was an unexpected decision.

Planner Florian Keppler presented three new variants for a central bus station (ZOB), some with several options, to the Gmund municipal council at their most recent meeting.

These met for the first time in hybrid form.

That means that Mayor Alfons Besel, colleagues from the administration and some of the council members were present in the Neureuthersaal, the others were there via video switch.

“After Holzkirchen and Miesbach, the train station in Gmund is the third-largest point of contact in the district when it comes to public transport,” the mayor explained in the introduction.

"The planned Alpine bus is also to go via Gmund." The train station is frequented by many passengers and is a place of arrival - and the visitors should feel comfortable.

Filigree and simple structure

It is now a matter of finding a suitable design for the new central bus station.

"We should take our time and discuss the roofing intensively," said Alfons Besel.

"I think we are largely in agreement that we want to have a filigree and simple structure that reflects the wood culture that we have in the area." District master builder Christian Boiger has now also commented on the plans - and that in principle benevolently, as the mayor said.

He then gave the floor to Florian Keppler.

"The bus platform is now planned to be 3.50 meters," he explained in the introduction.

"These are available to those waiting without restriction." He then went into the different variants.

Three roof variants possible:

• The first is with a flat roof - either as a thick timber roof or made of steel girders with suspended thick timber elements.

  The roof height will be around 60 centimetres, which with a clear height of 4.70 meters in the bus area would result in a total height of 5.30 metres.

  Free-standing round steel supports could be used as well as sloping or straight supports, for example made of thick wood.

• The second design has a diamond roof with a height of about 96 centimeters, so that the complete building would end up being about 5.66 meters high.

  Sloping or straight supports, for example made of thick wood, could also be used here.

• The third option shows a gable roof around two meters high, which would make the building about seven meters high in the end.

3D visualization desired

After the large number of other options for the central bus station (ZOB) had been presented to the Gmund municipal council, Mayor Alfons Besel took the floor again. "It's a bit like eating out, where there's a lot of choice on the menu," he said. "Sometimes you look at your neighbors to see what they have, and that makes it easier to make a decision." What he was getting at: he found it difficult to imagine the proportions and size of the central bus station based on the designs. He therefore suggested having a scaffold erected.

Opinions among councilors varied.

Michael Huber (Greens) did not see the added value, "because a scaffolding only shows the dimensions, but not the variant itself".

The optics are decisive for him, however, since the designs are sometimes quite different.

Therefore, he would prefer a 3D visualization.

"The flat roof is probably the most filigree and reserved," he says and warned that the correct capacity of lines should be installed, since electric buses are also to be refueled at the central bus station in the future.

Show scaffold as a suggestion

Barbara von Miller (SPD), on the other hand, spoke in favor of the scaffolding.

"The gable roof is stylistically problematic and very massive in its dimensions," explained Korbinian Kohler (CSU).

He called the scaffolding a good idea and suggested as an alternative simply building models to represent the central bus station in three-dimensional form.

"Everything that is now available is no longer filigree," was the conclusion of Christine Zierer (FWG).

Like the previous speaker, she advocated getting the old plans out of the drawer again.

The third mayor also spoke out in favor of a display scaffolding because it put the central bus station in relation to the listed railway station.

She can also be enthusiastic about models.

Demolition of the goods hall

Johann Schmid (SPD) and Florian Floßmann (FWG) criticized the height of the shelter of at least 4.70 meters.

"Bridges are only built with a clear height of 4.50 meters," explained the latter.

The higher the rather airy building, the more difficult it becomes for waiting passengers to find protection from wind and weather.

Franz von Preysing (CSU) also criticized this point.

In the end, the municipal councils decided with one dissenting vote in favor of erecting a display scaffold.

Meanwhile, the old goods hall is to be demolished at the beginning of February to make room for the central bus station.