Heat plan for Munich: Spray mist and sun sails should cool us down now
Created: 08/05/2022 12:56 p.m
By: Sascha Karowski
Heat wave in Munich.
© IMAGO / Heinz Gebhardt
This is the heat hammer!
Temperatures in Munich have been well over 30 degrees for days.
Greens and SPD want to cool down with a special heat protection concept - also in the pedestrian zone.
Munich – Older people in Munich in particular find the tropical summer extremely stressful.
Greens and SPD now want to cool down with a special heat protection concept - also in the pedestrian zone.
Berlin is the pioneer.
In the federal capital, doctors, nurses, civil protection, rescue services, the municipality and civil society are working together in the "Action Alliance for Heat Protection Berlin".
In Berlin and Brandenburg alone there were around 1,400 heat deaths between 2018 and 2020.
Munich: Politicians call for trees, spray mist and sun sails
Similar to the concept from the federal capital, a task force is also to be set up in Munich.
There should be no bans on thinking, as SPD leader Anne Hübner emphasizes.
"In the public space, the streets must be designed in such a way that people are protected from direct sunlight." In addition to other trees, large sun sails are also conceivable.
These can be found, for example, in pedestrian zones in Spain.
Just like spray mist, which is also used in Paris and Graz.
The finest water particles are released, which immediately cool the air.
The ÖDP in the city council had already applied for the spray mist.
Hübner: "For us, pilot projects on Sendlinger Strasse are conceivable." The uncovering of a stream through Sendlinger Strasse in 2018 was rejected - too expensive and not practicable.
Munich is sweating: there is hardly any shade on Sendlinger Strasse.
© Jens Hartmann/ tz
Protection from heat is also a social issue
Klaus Peter Rupp (SPD)
Also conceivable are more drinking fountains, the uncovering of city streams, water features, more seating in the shade and more unsealed areas.
"Protection from heat is a health and social issue," says Klaus Peter Rupp (SPD).
"People who live in cramped and too hot apartments are at much greater risk to their health than people who can afford air conditioning."
Spray against the heat: A tourist walks through a water spray that is sprayed on the outside of a café in Athens (Greece).
© Angelos Tzortzinis/dpa
For older people in particular, but also for children, there must be systematic concepts on how to protect them during extreme heat waves, says Hannah Gerstenkorn (Greens).
And not just this summer.
“Global warming is becoming a huge problem in cities.
We don't have some things under control, but we can certainly do something in other areas.” Gerstenkorn is not only thinking about health, but also about the living situation.
"We have to ask ourselves how people live and what the design is like, in other words: Can we shade apartments, can we make them cooler?" Hübner: "Many old people's and nursing homes already have concepts for hot days.
We must learn from this.
If at the same time we have or get a supply problem with electricity,
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