For a good two years, many people in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and Hohenbrunn were concerned about the plans for gravel quarrying on the Muna site – now things are getting started. So excavators have started to remove the top layer of earth on the area at the edge of the forest east of Hohenbrunner Straße. It is still uncertain when the actual gravel mining will start. The work that has now started is permitted after the district office has approved the corresponding application, the town hall in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn announced. The applicant is an entrepreneur from Hohenbrunn, who is allowed to dig for up to fourteen years and 25 meters deep on the approximately five hectare property.
The municipality had agreed on an urban development contract with the applicant, which stipulates, among other things, the operating period, the number of truck journeys and their route. The latter is primarily at the expense of the Luitpoldsiedlung in Hohenbrunn, where – as in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn – there were loud protests against the gravel quarrying. A resident recently founded the “citizens’ initiative to protect human life and nature” and submitted a petition to the state parliament’s environmental committee. The Hohenbrunn municipal council had already spoken out in favor of a lawsuit against the gravel quarrying in July.