Freising should get a student residence close to the city center - but there is a big but

Created: 11/28/2022, 7:00 p.m

By: Manuel Eser

Looks real, but is still a virtual diagram: The new student residence is planned as a compact cuboid with a flat roof as well as green space and parking spaces on Thalhauser Straße.

At the suggestion of the design advisory board, the building could change its exterior again.

© Graphic: City Immobilien Landshut GMBH

An investor would like to build a student residence close to the city center in Freising.

But the building concept caused criticism in the design advisory board.

Freising

– Students are desperately looking for apartments in Freising.

A student dormitory that is to be built near the city center could provide some relief.

But planning in an exposed location is complex for the client - and the design advisory board of the city of Freising also has its own ideas of how the building should look.

On the site between Vöttinger and Thalhauser Strasse there is currently an aging building that houses a tire shop with an attached garage.

The house with its sloping roof is an eye-catcher for road users coming from the city center on Vöttinger Straße, but it is to be demolished and made way for a new building.

The location is perfect, but there is one big but

The student residence that is to be built here was designed as a 38 meter long and 16 meter wide cube with a flat roof.

In addition to the common area on the ground floor, there are 55 one-bed apartments on the two upper floors, which are between 18 and 22 square meters in size.

Balconies are planned to the north towards Thalhauser Strasse and to the west and east.

However, loggias that face south towards Vöttinger Straße are also conceivable.

"It smiles in the direction of Freising": The building, whose façade, according to City Councilor Charlotte Reitsam, gives the square between Vöttinger and Thalhauser Strasse a face, has to give way to the student residence.

© Lehmann

"The location is perfect for a student residence," said Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher.

And there was no question that the city urgently needed apartments for students.

The big but: the planned architecture did not really appeal to the design advisory boards.

"The existing building has a strong presence," said Moritz Auer.

In comparison, the place loses elegance with the new planning.

"Your building is relatively bulky in there," he said to the planners.

"The question is: Shouldn't there be a more characteristic building here?"

The existing house enhances the place because it gives it a face.

It laughs in the direction of Freising.

Green City Councilor Charlotte Reitsam

Green City Councilor Charlotte Reitsam saw it similarly: "The existing house upgrades the square because it gives it a face.

It laughs in the direction of Freising.” The planned dormitory, on the other hand, is a block that looks the same on all sides.

She therefore wished that the side of the building that faces the city center would be architecturally enhanced in the planning.

“We need a kind of public façade here.” Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher, for example, suggested planting a striking tree.

Bernhard Schäbel, Managing Director of City Immobilien Landshut GmbH, which is planning the project, pointed out how complex it would be to develop the property.

Not only does the area taper to a point at one end, the Thalhauser Graben also runs under the property.

That's why the decision was made in favor of a "compact design" even though several variants had been tried out.

But he also made it clear: "We want to build something beautiful."

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

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For this reason, Schäbel agreed to submit another plan for the building with a gabled roof.

In order to create a larger public community area on the site, as the advisory board also called for several times, the parking spaces that are planned in addition to the underground car park would have to be eliminated.

The Mayor signaled to him that the city could accommodate the client with the required number of parking spaces, since the need for students was not that high anyway.

"We are open to that if it serves quality."