As of: February 16, 2024, 12:36 p.m
By: Bettina Ulrichs
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Densely built-up and not much green: this is what the southern station district in Munich looks like.
This should now be changed with federal funding.
© Heinz Gebhardt
Four districts benefit from federal funding totaling more than one million euros.
The goal: more gardens and oases in the city
Munich is blooming and becoming even greener.
There is 1.58 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.
The funds will benefit four districts.
The aim is to have more gardens and urban oases as well as planted roofs and house facades to combat the summer heat.
For example, it's about greening balconies and terraces, insect-friendly perennial beds, nesting places for wild bees in sandariums and greener schoolyards, front and inner courtyards of apartment buildings, city gardens and squares as well as façades covered in plants.
Together, citizens and professional gardeners can experience and learn what works well in the city and which plantings thrive and delight local residents.
Schwabing and Bogenhausen also benefit
In the city center, the Isar and Ludwigsvorstadt with the southern Bahnhofsviertel, the Glockenbach and Dreimühlenviertel and Giesing are part of this major project for more urban nature and biodiversity.
In addition to the heavily built-up and less green inner city districts, the five-year large-scale urban nature project is running in Schwabing West and Bogenhausen.
The existing community gardens Stadtacker at the Ackermannbogen and the experimental garden at the Ecological Education Center near Cosimabad are the starting points for further gardening under scientific supervision, with a focus on insect protection.
The Munich Community Foundation, the Munich Environmental Center, Green City, the Technical University of Munich and the Berlin Natural History Museum are implementing the project.
Almost half of the funding goes to Munich.
More precisely, 1.58 million of 3.65 million euros in federal money.
The districts receive this high level of funding because there are already very good approaches and model projects for a better quality of life in Munich, adaptation to hotter summers in the city and green oases that residents help shape.
Now the decisive phase begins in the four districts, in which the people of Munich can take part in shaping their immediate neighborhood and contributing their wishes and ideas.
The federal government's major project runs until mid-2028.
Project will be presented in a workshop
The Munich results will be transferred to other cities because they are scientifically supported and evaluated.
The funding that does not go to Munich must be shared between different regions and allotment garden projects in Moers, Mannheim, Verden and Baden-Württemberg.
Who wants to garden professionally and green their street?
Who knows of a roof that could be planted?
Who wants to care for new trees and bushes and contribute their ideas?
Green City presents the “Biodiversity in the Neighborhood!” project in a workshop.
Ideas for Giesing and the Ludwigs- and Isarvorstadt are created together.
The participants from the districts find out what biodiversity is and what importance it has for Munich.
This participation launch event will take place on February 20th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the Green City office at Lindwurmstrasse 88.