Former Rewe market in the town center: Eight trees are gone - will things move forward then?

Created: 01/26/2022, 08:54

By: Bert Brosch

Something is happening: Eight trees may be felled on the site of the former Rewe, then the buildings are to be demolished.

But nobody knows what comes next.

© Bert Brosch

It has become quiet around the Rewe in the center of Oberschleißheim.

Now the group wants to fell eight trees.

An initial spark for further plans?

At least that's what the mayor hopes.

Oberschleißheim

– The Rewe market in the center of Oberschleißheim on Stutenanger has been closed for two years.

There were many lofty plans for what to get there, none of which came to fruition.

The company now wants to cut down eight trees, and the building committee agreed against the arguments of the Greens.

On January 31, 2020, Rewe, which dates back to the 1960s and has been quite dilapidated in recent years, closed its doors.

As a replacement, a new town center was under discussion with a hyper-modern new building, a "green building" with sustainable construction, glass walls, lots of wood and a green roof.

A “new generation of trade” should emerge.

But at some point it became a functional building for a Penny supermarket, which also belongs to the Rewe Group.

Although Rewe opened new stores in Feldmoching and Unterschleißheim, plans only faltered in Oberschleißheim.

Mayor: "I'm confident that something will happen very quickly"

Most recently, in the summer of 2021, there were plans for more than 80 new apartments in two buildings, but here too everything seems to be deadlocked again, especially since the municipality is pushing for an urban development contract. "I am confident that something will happen very quickly," said Mayor Markus Böck (CSU) now in the construction and works committee. The Rewe Group had requested the felling of eight trees on the property: a tree of life (Thuje), four robinias and a small-leaved lime.

Fritz-Gerrit Kropp (Greens) made it clear that his group would not agree to the application.

"We've only heard new demands from Rewe for years.

In order to demolish the building, you definitely don't have to cut down the eight trees, especially since we think some should be cut down that aren't even on the Rewe site he did not, according to Kropp, agree to the felling.

According to Böck, the community has a demolition application for the houses, "but we don't know what they're planning yet."

However, if the building committee does not approve the felling of the trees, the plans could be delayed even further.

"That would be unacceptable for me," says Böck.

Kropp replied that the municipality should finally “put pressure on Rewe to move.

We don't have to meet them again.

They want a bare, ugly site – I don't think anything will happen there anytime soon." For Böck, the municipality could not put any pressure on such a company by refusing to fell trees: "I assume that something will happen quickly .” Against the votes of the Greens, the building committee approved the felling of the eight trees.

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