Planes still take off and land at Germany’s oldest operating airport in Oberschleißheim. In front of the hall of the Flugwerft there is an impressive view over the extensive runway of the Schleissheim airfield, which opened in 1912 and today houses the Aviation Museum as a branch of the Deutsches Museum. There are few places where tradition and modernity, history and innovation flow so closely together. “It’s a very special place,” says Munich’s District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU) in the ballroom of the Flugwerft when he welcomed the annual conference of the European metropolitan region of Munich. As a host, Göbel obviously has to say something like that. But there is something to it, as the day is supposed to be about how the metropolitan region, whose chairman is the Munich district administrator, can prepare for the challenges of the future – and how the innovative power of this prosperous economic area can be maintained and expanded.
Economy in Munich: Greater Munich as the new Silicon Valley – district of Munich
