As of: February 2, 2024, 8:26 a.m
By: Dominik Stallein
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The wall at Sauerlacher Straße 15 is 3.50 meters high. It is part of the Maro cooperative's multi-generational residential building.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
It is only one part of the housing project - but the most controversial one.
The Maro Wall on Sauerlacher Straße.
There were once loud protests.
We asked around.
Wolfratshausen - It wasn't about the 24 apartments, not about the concept of the multi-generational house, not about parking spaces, the demolition, the new building or the monument on the property.
In the Maro cooperative project on Sauerlacher Straße, city councilors and residents debated one thing in particular: the noise barrier that was to be built at the intersection with the raft canal.
The building is now standing and there is no longer much to be heard of the once loud protests - but there is still dissatisfaction.
In 2019, members of the Wolfratshauser CSU showed the dimensions of the wall with a cloth - and collected signatures against it.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
CSU protested against the construction of the wall in Wolfratshausen - “We have to live with it,” they say today
At the forefront, the Wolfratshausen CSU fought against the construction of the wall.
To show the dimensions, the Christian Socialists hoisted a cloth to a height of 3.50 meters during a protest.
The party collected over 500 signatures against the construction of the wall.
“We have to live with it,” says Deputy Mayor Günther Eibl today.
In 2019 he was the faction leader and a frontman of the protest.
At that time, the CSU did not speak out against the multi-generational house per se: the object of criticism was always the wall.
Looking back, Eibl thinks it made sense for the party to campaign for a reduction in size.
“This has made it a little more pleasing.” Thanks to the new three-story residential building on the property, “the height of the wall is tolerable in comparison.”
“Terrible”: Goldsmith has clear opinions about the Maro Wall
Susanne Döbler sees it differently.
The goldsmith has her shop right at the intersection.
The daily view of the 3.50 meter wall and the building behind it is “terrible”.
She's not the only one who thinks so: "My customers always talk about the wall - and find it as bad as I do."
Florian Nagler, architect of the Maro multi-generational house © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Architect defends plans: “There is a certain need for explanation”
Architect Florian Nagler saw things differently from the start.
Because of the violent reactions to the cooperative's plans, he defended the draft at an information event and in a press conference.
“The wall will not be an eyesore,” he said at the time.
“Explaining things is part of our job,” he says today.
“There is a certain need for explanation because not everyone can imagine something precise about a design.” According to the initial information, “many people imagined the wall to be worse than it really is.”
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Wall on Sauerlacher Strasse: “Two meters would have done it,” says a passer-by
Brigitte Sjöberg still finds the finished wall far too massive.
“Two meters high would have done it too,” she thinks.
She can understand noise protection for the open space at the intersection, “but it doesn’t have to be that high.”
She would like a wider sidewalk in front of the property, “there is almost no space left for that.”
The wall would also make cycling more difficult - because of the visibility triangle and the lack of space.
A cyclist who is on Sauerlacher Strasse doesn't see it as a problem: “I don't care about the wall.
There are much more important things that annoy me.”
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When asked by our newspaper, architect Nagler explains: “We have created a situation that has already existed before.” Decades ago, a wall protected the area around the old hospital from noise and prying eyes.
In Nagler’s eyes, it’s a “very consistent measure”.
Since there are many taller buildings in the area surrounding the new building, the wall fits into the surrounding area.
“That doesn’t bother you.
In terms of urban planning, it not only fits in, it even makes sense at this point.”
Project “instrumentalized in the election campaign”?
Maro project manager talks about CSU protests
Ralf Schmid often had to deal with the wall in the run-up to construction.
The project manager of the Ohlstadt cooperative has experienced a lot of headwind for the wall at the intersection.
But that has changed.
“It has become very quiet,” he says.
Since construction began in autumn 2020, no one has complained to Maro about the wall.
“Our project was exploited a bit during the election campaign,” suspects Schmid.
The construction work on Sauerlacher Straße is largely completed.
The residents are scheduled to move into the multi-generational home as early as March.
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