Significantly more traffic in Penzberg: the city and Roche are paying for soundproof windows for certain houses

Created: 12/29/2022, 12:02 p.m

By: Wolfgang Schorner

In Penzberg, a soundproof window program was approved for certain streets and houses.

© Wolfgang Schorner

The city of Penzberg will reimburse the cost of installing soundproof windows on certain streets and houses.

It is about almost 130 apartments for which there may be a claim.

The background is the increasing traffic noise due to the Roche expansion and the settlement of other companies in the Nonnenwald.

Penzberg – Soundproof windows and French doors are to be reimbursed up to a maximum of 250 euros per square meter.

For soundproofing fans in rooms that are used for sleeping purposes, it is up to 300 euros.

New insulated roller shutter boxes would be subsidized with up to 250 euros.

This emerges from a statute that the Penzberg city council has now unanimously adopted. The statute also lists those houses for which there is a “possible right to passive noise protection”.

Most of these houses are on Bahnhofstrasse, Bichler Strasse, Grube, Am Haselberg, Nonnenwaldstrasse, Oberanger, in Reindl, Seeshaupter Strasse, Sindelsdofer Strasse, Waxensteinstrasse and in Wölfl.

According to the city, there are a total of 127 apartments on different streets

When asked, the city of Penzberg said that a total of 127 apartments were involved.

There was no information on what the noise protection program would cost – it ultimately also depends on how many applications are received.

It is to be financed by both the city and Roche.

There was no statement as to who would take on how much.

This, it was said, was a matter for the urban development contract that the city and Roche recently concluded as part of the planned expansion of the plant.

He was not published.

Expert has forecast a sharp increase in traffic

It was already apparent last summer that there would be a reimbursement for soundproof windows.

At that time, expert Harald Spath from the Munich office "Gevas" explained his traffic forecast to the Penzberg traffic committee (we reported).

Accordingly, traffic in Penzberg will increase by 7,400 vehicles per day by 2035.

The largest part (4,000 vehicles) can be traced back to the additional housing development in Penzberg, but a considerable part is also due to the expansion of the Roche factory premises (1,100 vehicles), to the densification in the Roche factory (1,100 vehicles) and to the settlement of new ones Companies on urban areas (1200 vehicles) in the Nonnenwald.

Based on this forecast, expert Johann Storr from the Augsburg office "Bekon" also presented a sound report.

It contained a list of "buildings with a possible claim for soundproofing" because the noise levels there are exceeded due to the increase in traffic.

This list has now found its way into the noise protection program.

OM criticism: Only the symptoms are combated

There was also fundamental criticism in the preliminary consultations for the program.

Markus Bocksberger (PM) spoke of combating symptoms.

"We expect that the cause will be fought," he said - i.e. the increase in traffic.

John-Christian Eilert (Greens) saw things similarly.

Soundproof windows are the "last and most impossible thing to block out noise".

In the end, however, both the building committee and the city council voted unanimously for the soundproof window statute.

According to the city, applications will only be possible from 2024

However, the residents of the affected houses cannot yet submit applications immediately.

This will only be possible from 2024, according to Günter Fuchs, deputy head of the building authority.

The statute states that claims can only be asserted one year after the first development plan has come into force.

As reported, the development plan for the Roche plant expansion was approved by the city council at the December meeting.

The city justified the time span by saying that the first new industrial and commercial buildings are only finished with a delay.

According to Fuchs, the program is limited to six years.

In 2030, he explained, the Roche mobility concept, as announced, should take effect and lead to a reduction in traffic again.

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The procedure states that residents with a possible claim must submit a written application to the city, which will then be checked by an external officer on site.

No noise protection measures may be implemented beforehand.

After completion it will be checked again.

When asked by Adrian Leinweber (SPD) in the committee whether the city would proactively inform the affected residents of the possible claim, it was said that this was feasible.