A town center to feel good
Created: 05/15/2022, 18:47
Bird's-eye view: A crane lifted a viewing basket 40 meters high.
© Dagmar Rutt
It's finally done: After years of discussions, quarrels and money worries, Mayor Rudolph Haux was able to officially open the new Kraillinger town center on Saturday.
Krailling
– In bright sunshine, Krailling celebrated its new center at the weekend with a market, culinary delights, music, a flea market and the opportunity to view the Würmtal community from a bird's eye view with a crane.
Carousel and bungee trampoline, plus a climbing wall were set up.
Michael Laumer's Taekwondo school showed that you don't have to grow up to smash wooden boards with your bare feet.
Hundreds of visitors strolled past the stalls or followed Friederike Tschochner's historical tour attentively.
5.4 million euros
The 5.4 million construction project had not been easy.
Already in 2010, when former mayor Christine Borst was in office, the go-ahead was given for planning this urban renewal.
"We wanted to create an attractive town center to counteract the emigration of the high purchasing power," recalled Christine Borst in her welcoming address and was extremely satisfied with the result.
A design competition was held in 2014, from which a design by the Berlin offices of Atelier PK and bbz landscape architects emerged as the winner.
According to initial planning, construction should start in 2018.
An immense increase in costs then prompted the municipal council at the beginning of 2019 to cancel the tender for the new town center and only towards the end of the year was there a revised tender with reduced costs.
Mayor Haux said in his ceremonial speech: “The fight was against a lot of resistance.
Nobody could really imagine Paulhanplatz as the end product during the planning phase.” Now, as an essential part of the redesign, it has become a great square.
Its inauguration took place two weeks ago on May 1st with the erection of the maypole (we reported).
In the future, the town center should be used actively.
In addition to a Saturday market, Haux can also imagine after-work events under the plane trees.
Accessibility
According to Christian Schiebel, Head of Urban Development Funding of the Upper Bavarian government, the main goals, the uniformity of the paving with polished granite right up to the house walls on Margaretenstrasse and the associated freedom from barriers, have been achieved.
Lowering the curbs now allows unrestricted access to all shops.
Other elements of accessibility are the so-called corrugated plates.
"These are special panels for the visually impaired, like here at Paulhanplatz," explained Schiebel.
With the greenery and the various seating options, everything fits together homogeneously and offers a high quality of stay.
Sabine Kahle-Sander, Vice President of the Government of Upper Bavaria, congratulated Krailling on his new town centre.
It is very convincing and a good example
what urban development funding can achieve, says Kahle-Sander.
The municipality received 2.4 million euros in grants for the project.
On this Saturday, the Day of Urban Development took place nationwide.
Caroline Hoegel
