The flying classrooms: Modules for expansion are delivered
Created: 03/10/2022 07:03
By: Stefan Weinzierl
Precision work: The classroom modules are hoisted onto the foundation with the crane and adjusted precisely.
Then the module parts are welded together.
© Stefan Weinzierl
The Erich Kästner School in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn should grow.
Now the time has come: The modules for the expansion are being delivered.
Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
– “The Flying Classroom” is one of the best-known children’s books by the writer Erich Kästner, who died in Munich in 1974.
In the primary and middle school named after him in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, some classrooms have actually been floating in the air since yesterday, held only by steel cables attached to a crane.
The students, parents and teachers, but especially the headmaster Torsten Bergmühl, have been eagerly awaiting the spectacle.
Because the "flying classrooms" are the modules for the expansion of the school, which has been struggling with a precarious space situation for years.
As reported, classes have to be taught in basement rooms because there are not enough rooms available.
Moving at the end of May
That should change as soon as possible, as Bergmühl emphasizes: "At the end of May, the classes that are currently being taught in precarious rooms should move," says the headmaster.
Two primary school classes and six middle school classes will then move into the modular building.
According to Bergmühl, all module parts should have been delivered and assembled by this evening.
Then it's on to the interior design.
The furniture for the classrooms has already been ordered, says the rector, and the tender for the electronic boards is in progress.
The old containers in the playground that were used for the open all-day school were dismantled weeks ago.
the activities that took place there moved to the school building.
The new modules make the outdoor living area much smaller.
According to Bergmühl, however, this is not a problem: "We compensate for this by using the canyon as a playground." The "canyon" means a lowered courtyard between the main school building and the extension built in 2012.
More news from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and the district of Munich can be found here.
