If you cycle along Otto-Hahn-Straße in Haar, you will not even notice when you are suddenly in Munich. The city boundary runs in the housing estate between two properties. Truderinger and Haarer practically live wall to wall. It is different north of the railway line, on the Gronsdorf side. Even by bike, you can’t get through between Heimgartenstrasse in Haar and Rappenweg in Munich. According to the state capital, this should change in order to connect large, new residential areas for traffic. But this is now considered to be done. The resistance in Haar is massive because nobody wants to see thousands of additional vehicles on the streets.
How the situation is proceeding has now become apparent in the local council when representatives of the Dragomir planning office presented a structural concept drawn up on behalf of the city of Munich, which illuminates what the city believes should happen on an eleven hectare property in Haar. The city owns the area and is therefore interested in residential developments in Haar. According to current assumptions, up to 800 residential units could be built there on the green meadow opposite the Gronsdorf-Kolonie settlement. That would mean an additional 3500 car journeys a day. And that in already difficult, loaded traffic conditions.
The figures for Gronsdorf come from a traffic report from the spring that has been incorporated into the structural concept now presented. And they only describe part of the problem. Because the traffic report is also about the fact that the city wants to create up to 3,400 residential units on its own corridor on Rappenweg, up to 1,500 on nearby Heltauer Straße and around 2,500 in the fifth construction phase of the trade fair city. All of this plays into the overall view . Because for everyone who is supposed to live there one day, a road connection between Rappenweg and Heimgartenstraße would be interesting as an east-west connection. The Haarer SPD councilor Peter Paul Gantzer, who lives in Gronsdorf, briefly commented on the presentation of the structural report with the idea of a road cut from Haar to Trudering: “Only over my corpse!”
The structural report itself, which was presented to the public for the first time, did not provide any new findings in terms of content. Three scenarios with more or less dense development on Rappenweg and in Gronsdorf were described. There were only statements about areas that would be conceivable for residential construction. In the middle scenario, for example, there was talk of a 43,000 square meter area for residential construction. 3900 would be used for roads and 11,000 square meters for green space. Assuming this scenario, 89,000 square meters of living space would be built on Rappenweg.
“The aim was to work out proposed solutions that were acceptable to both sides. We did not come to an amicable solution.”
Against this background, a common line between Munich and Haar was not found, especially with regard to the development in Gronsdorf – Haar has the planning right there – and the transport links across the city and municipality boundaries. Joint working meetings in the course of the preparation of the structural report remained without result. Urban planner Johannes Dragomir said in Haar: “The aim was to work out proposed solutions that were acceptable to both sides. We did not come to an amicable solution.”
How it should go on is actually completely open. In addition to Gantzer, Ulrich Leiner (Greens) only briefly commented on the presentation of the report, who expressed the wish to create at least one bicycle connection between Heimgartenstrasse and Rappenweg. That is part of the cycle expressway pursued by the Greens from the Ostbahnhof to Ebersberg. Apparently, it was also declared that the city and the district generally supported the construction of a school campus in Gronsdorf on the S-Bahn on part of the urban area. From Haarer’s point of view, one solution there could be to connect the campus with a road from the east from the sports park in Eglfing. In Munich, a road tunnel under the railway line to Mauerseglerstrasse is under discussion to develop the Rappenweg without a piercing through to Haar.
View towards the train station: The city would like to create living space on the wide open area east of Schneiderhofstrasse in Gronsdorf.
(Photo: Sebastian Gabriel)
But one thing is clear: Munich and Haar are still dependent on each other in Gronsdorf. There is a city council resolution that makes the approval of the school campus, on which a technical high school, a secondary school and possibly a nursing school are to be built, dependent on Haarer concessions in housing construction. And without hair, nothing works in the urban area in Gronsdorf. The municipality has planning sovereignty. If you can’t get together, Haar has a Pan B. As Mayor Andreas Bukowski (CSU) says on request, there are considerations to locate the campus directly in Eglfing on the western edge of the sports park. But that is a tedious undertaking. First of all, the property issue would have to be clarified, as in Gronsdorf. Now the parliamentary groups are to advise in Haar. There will soon be a public debate.