As of: January 30, 2024, 5:07 p.m
By: Bettina Ulrichs
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For a pedestrian and cycle path: District politicians want the Braunau Bridge to be widened.
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Neighborhood politicians would like to widen the Braunau railway bridge to create a pedestrian and cycle path.
But the railway would have to agree and may have other plans.
All suggestions to use the Braunau railway bridge on foot or by bike have been ineffective for a long time.
Even a music event planned last year by the busy Benjamin David and the Isarlust association with BayWa as sponsor could not open the iron bridge from 1871 to the citizens.
Now there is at least a feasibility study for a pedestrian and cycle path.
Because this connection from Giesing and from the Isar meadows near the rose garden across to the other side of the Isar near the wholesale market hall would be urgently needed.
The bridge was closed in 1981
Even if some people just squeeze through and walk across the disused bridge unsecured, officially only trains are allowed to pass here, after all, the railway is the owner of the bridge, which has been a listed building since 2017.
The iron half-timbered structure from 1871 was decommissioned in 1981.
Today, trains travel directly south over the attached extension, a full-wall steel construction.
The historic old bridge construction could become a pedestrian and cyclist bridge - this is the wish of many residents.
However, the railway is planning more freight and passenger traffic.
Ultimately, this line is the entrance gate to Munich from Rosenheim and will also serve the planned regional train station on Poccistraße.
If necessary, the state-owned company wants to be able to expand its track capacities.
City center residents would have further access to the Isar floodplains
Local politicians from the Isar and Ludwigsvorstadt imagine that the iron Braunau railway bridge could also be widened in a similar way to the wooden Thalkirchner Bridge.
Residents from these inner city districts would then finally have further access to the green Isar floodplains in the southeast.
For the citizens from the Dreimühlen and Schlachthofviertel, the children from Roecklplatz and all cyclists from Giesing, the south of Munich and the northwest of Munich as far as Theresienwiese and Sendling-Westpark, this would be a perfect connection with Isar ambience.
What is structurally possible will become clear.
Experience has shown that the feasibility study takes some time.
It remains to be seen whether the railway will agree.
The alternative connection, a new Isar pedestrian bridge for residents and cyclists - the so-called Klenzesteg - at the level of the Wittelbacher School and Klenzestraße on the Isar tangent Wittelsbacher Straße, is not currently planned.
The city currently has no money for this additional bridge and is not prioritizing it.
Therefore, there remains hope that the Braunau railway bridge can be made suitable for pedestrians and cyclists.
The Green city councilor Paul Bickelbacher and his colleagues from the Ludwigs- and Isarvorstadt districts would be happy about it.