Monster flower pots are causing a huge stir - are they ugly as hell?

Created: 11/30/2022, 07:07

By: Kathrin Böhmer

In Olching, the grey, still empty pots are currently only used as rubbish bins.

They should be planted.

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16 head-high and eleven smaller flower pots on the church, roundabout and main street: Huge troughs that are to be planted one day are currently causing a stir in Olching - and ridicule.

Olching – It is well known that there is no arguing about taste, in Olching you see things completely differently.

"My pulse shoots up to 200 when I see them." That's one verdict on the new XXL flower pots in anthracite, which have recently been spread throughout the entire inner city area.

Some city council members are also indignant about the new street furniture, which should beautify everything.

Troughs completely in grey

But from the beginning: One day, 16 man-high and eleven smaller flower pots suddenly stood at the church, the roundabout and the main street.

Completely grey, to match the gray November sky, but so far no plants.

The mockery followed promptly, not only from the citizenry: monster troughs, XXL ashtrays and pot-ugly can be heard.

SPD city councilor Michaela Andersch-Steer warns: The empty pots at the Christmas market would very quickly become "oversized rubbish bins".

troughs even a hindrance?

In fact, you can already see one or two coffee-to-go cups and other rubbish there.

The CSU parliamentary group leader in the city council, Tomas Bauer, reports: "Many citizens rate the gray monster troughs as ugly and a hindrance." The CSU even recently issued warnings in the urban development committee that the pots are dangerous in some places because they are in the middle of the sidewalk.

Maria Hartl specifically asked for the pots in front of the church to be removed because it looked horrible.

This is what the XXL flower troughs can look like when they are already planted and grown like elsewhere.

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Mayor Andreas Magg (SPD) is trying to smooth things over.

The new street furniture was part of a funding program that the city council members approved.

In the town hall, they actually dared to choose the color themselves.

"We wanted to keep it as neutral as possible." The locations were laid down in a concept that had to be submitted to the government.

These are largely fixed, unless there are security concerns.

Distribute troughs to districts?

According to Magg, it is not possible to distribute some of the pots to the districts of Graßlfing, Esting or Geiselbullach.

The support program applies expressly to the center.

So the 27 grey, partly gigantic plastic pots had to be set up around the main street.

Four stand alone at a roundabout.

The head of the town hall admitted: "It's November, there are gray pots that are not planted, not nice." But you should give the whole thing a chance.

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Make troughs more colourful?

Magg showed pictures from other cities of how the whole thing looks planted.

However, in the examples, the troughs were colorful.

This prompted Green Party leader Ingrid Jaschke to comment: "In my opinion, Olching would have done well with some colour." For Josef Gigl (free voters), one more question was crucial in the matter: "What did the fun cost us?" The answer: The pots amount to 50,000 euros, the matching green to 25,000 euros.

Of the total of 75,000 euros, 60,000 euros came from the Free State.

"That makes the whole thing a little more bearable," at least Josef Gigl thought.

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