Considerations have been going on for a long time to redesign the so-called Ganser site in Kirchstockach on a sustainable basis. It still stands for gravel, sand, concrete production, organic waste fermentation and composting as well as geothermal energy. However, the Kraft-Baustoffe company would like to build a central warehouse with administrative rooms on the area of the composting plant. The client, the Josef-und-Luise-Kraft-Stiftung, wants to inform the residents about this. The Citizens’ Dialogue, which has been postponed due to Corona, will now take place on Saturday.
Under the motto “Together for a good future for Kirchstockach / Brunnthal”, Matthias Ganser, who heads the Ganser Group with his brother Günter, and the Kraft Foundation board member, Harald Mosler, will present the project and answer questions from the citizens . The project of a greened logistics hall with photovoltaics and water recirculation convinced the Brunnthal town council back in May and led to an unusually unanimous decision. But now the Kirchstockachers are addressed, because Ganser and Mosler promise above all less dust, noise and stench.
The Kraft-Solar-Halle with administration rooms is to be around 20,000 square meters and twelve meters high; delivery vehicles are to be loaded and unloaded behind closed doors in the warehouse. In contrast, twelve to 15 machines are constantly running on the composting plant today. The elimination of the composting facility would “represent a” significant improvement in the quality of life “, argue 28 directly affected people from Rosenheimer Landstrasse and Hohenbrunner Strasse, who have given the municipal council a list of signatures. They hope for “significantly less noise for the residents, less odor nuisance and dust” and support the project. Now there is a “unique chance” that “the area will be completely upgraded”. A local family sees it this way: “If you still have doubts, it can’t get worse than now!”
This is entirely in the spirit of Matthias Ganser, who wants to make a decisive contribution to the necessary energy transition with “clean” projects. Most of the concern for the people of Brunnthal, however, is the question of traffic. A traffic count by the community is conceivable after completing other tasks, says Mayor Stefan Kern (CSU). Ganser and Mosler assured the local council that without the composting plant there would be significantly less traffic. The direct neighbors speak of a “reduction in incoming and outgoing vehicles by around 400 units per week”. However, deliveries to Kraft are made by truck via Taufkirchner Straße, which, according to Ganser, can already handle today’s traffic and is therefore sufficient for less.
The desired southern access to the Ganser site promises the greatest relief. It could be built as part of the expansion of the accident-prone intersection on Staatsstrasse 2078 at the junction of Münchner Strasse towards Höhenkirchen. The expansion of the intersection is currently being examined by the municipalities of Hohenbrunn, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and Brunnthal. The fourth junction at this intersection would go to the Ganser site, would lead through a wooded area and also connect a neighboring parish to the state road. Negotiations with three forest owners are still ongoing, the outcome is open. You would have to swap a section each for the street. There have been “resistance, but also conciliatory talks,” says Brunnthal’s mayor Stefan Kern (CSU).
If everything goes as desired, a footpath and bike path to the bus stop would first be set up in the north of the Ganser site. Then the Stadtwerke München want to drill for hot water with an 80 meter high derrick between until Easter 2024 in order to enlarge their geothermal system. After all, the construction of the Kraft-Solar-Halle could begin in 2024, which visionary Ganser sees as the prelude to a green industrial and technology park called “Ganser 3.0” with research cooperation, regional energy supply and climate-neutral energy generation. By 2035, the construction companies and the gravel works could be eliminated and the district’s organic waste fermentation plant could also be a thing of the past.
The Citizens’ Dialogue will take place on Saturday, July 10th, 10 a.m., on the premises of the Ganser company, Taufkirchner Straße 1, Kirchstockach. A negative Covid test and wearing an FFP2 mask are required.