Host wants to prevent mammoth project at the English Garden: "Atmosphere severely affected"

Created: 05/10/2022 09:23

By: Claudia Schuri

Concerned about the green: Aumeister landlord Thomas König fears that many trees and plants next to his beer garden will have to give way for a construction road for the expansion of the Föhringer Ring.

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Planning and discussion has been going on for many years: the expansion of the Föhringer Ring is a huge project.

But trees will probably have to give way for the construction site.

Munich - It is a mammoth project: The Föhringer Ring is being expanded from two to four lanes.

The road is to be made fit for more traffic over a length of 1.9 kilometers.

Because forecasts predict up to 74,000 vehicles on the route on a working day in 2025.

But the expansion entails a huge construction site and interventions in nature.

And that worries Thomas König, the landlord of the Aumeister in the English Garden.

"Large green areas with lots of trees have to be cut down," he says.

"The habitat of many animals is being destroyed."

Trees would have to give way to the Föhringer Ring: almost 7,000 square meters are to be cleared

The Freising State Building Authority confirms that clearing is planned at the Herzog-Heinrich-Bridge in order to set up an approximately 800-meter-long construction road to the Isar Island.

Interventions are planned "immediately to the west and east of the Isar and Isar Canal on the Herzog Heinrich Bridge and on the Isar Island in the area of ​​the new bridge construction and east of the Isar Canal".

“Almost 7,000 square meters of wooded area are to be cleared,” reports a spokesman.

It is not yet possible to give a number of exactly how many trees will be felled.

"It's mostly bushes and shrubs and not very old trees."

There has been planning permission for the expansion of the Föhringer Ring since 2004.

Due to changes in nature conservation, the plans would have to be adjusted at the moment.

As soon as the plan change decision is available, the construction work, including the clearing work, could be put out to tender.

The spokesman emphasizes that after the construction period the vegetation will be restored where possible.

At the Herzog-Heinrich-Bridge, wood should be planted on 5200 square meters.

There are also other compensatory measures.

Munich: Expansion of the Föhringer Ring - Landlord König wants to prevent intervention in the English Garden

However: This is not the area that Wirt König is concerned with.

A further step in the construction project is expected to affect the green area immediately next to the Aumeister.

According to information from the building authority, a third Tektur process is currently being set up.

"We are still in negotiations," says the spokesman.

It is still too early for details.

A construction road between the Aumeister and the Föhringer Ring is under discussion.

Officials have already contacted Wirt König about the project.

He fears that clearing the areas would also mean that there would be no noise protection for the Aumeister.

His fear: “The atmosphere and our operations are severely affected by the exposure to noise, dirt and filth.

And it is an intervention in the north entrance of the English Garden.”

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Föhringer Ring: Nature Conservation Authority emphasizes - "Limit felling to what is absolutely necessary"

The Lower Nature Conservation Authority in Munich emphasizes that they are trying to “limit felling to what is absolutely necessary”.

Nothing can be said about the scope because there are no complete plans yet.

However, it is clear that the expansion of the Föhringer Ring will "inevitably lead to precipitation on both sides of the existing road," according to a spokeswoman.

Since it was stipulated that traffic should be maintained as much as possible during the work, "it will be difficult to avoid that part of the construction site traffic will be handled next to the construction site".

However, the decisions are made by the planning approval authority, the government of Upper Bavaria.

For landlord Thomas König it is clear: he wants to fight for the preservation of the green in his beer garden.