The plans for a new residential and school location around Dreilingsweg are becoming more concrete. There, in the north of Obermenzing and Aubing, between the A 8 and A 99 motorways, where fields and green spaces alternate with herb gardens and isolated properties, the municipality wants to create a new residential area in the coming years. Up to 1,200 apartments are to be built in two phases on an area of around 20 hectares – twelve kilometers from the city centre. In addition, day-care centers, a supermarket with 2,000 square meters of retail space, a high school and, north of the railway line, directly at the S-Bahn station Langwied, a second secondary school or a vocational school center.
Whether a new elementary school will also be needed is not yet clear: “It will be examined whether the elementary school An der Schäferwiese can be expanded or whether an additional elementary school needs to be created,” says the draft, which is now submitted to the Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied district committees and Pasing-Obermenzing for the hearing. The future settlement, located between the Munich-Augsburg railway line, the street An der Langwieder Haide, Mooswiesenstraße and in the south the edges of the residential area Jaspersallee and Bergsonstraße, is already part of the planned urban development for the next 20 years (STEP 2040). And it is a small part of the much larger “Mühlangerstraße/Langwied” structural concept, which covers around 200 hectares south of the motorway junction.
The foot and cycle path network opens up the Langwieder lakes
With its wide areas and the existing network of footpaths and cycle paths, which leads to the Langwieder Sees, among other things, the area has a high recreational value – and it should stay that way. For example, the Negrellistrasse, a dirt road that runs along the railway line, is to be “secured in the long term” as a pedestrian and cycle path connection, according to the draft. From the point of view of the municipal planning department, a foot and cycle path bridge over Bergsonstraße is also “desirable” – among other things, in order to better network the vocational school at Bergsonstraße 109 with the future school locations on Dreilingsweg. Aubing’s and Pasing’s local politicians even “demand” such a footbridge.
Everyone agrees that the regional green corridor Dachauer Moos/Freisinger Moos/green belt Munich-Northwest, which is connected to the Würmtal, must also be preserved. In its function as an area where cold air is produced and a corridor for fresh air, this green axis winds its way through the newly planned district on the northern edge and also includes the Langwieder Heide biotope, which is of national importance. According to the city planners, keeping them free is “elementary”. A 30 meter wide buffer zone should therefore separate the biotope from the planned vocational school center. From the point of view of the local citizens’ representatives, the green corridor “must be taken into account in the competition”. In addition, “beyond the newly defined school location, no development should take place towards the north”. This must be secured by planning law.
The district committees are campaigning for a grammar school alongside the vocational school
The two district committees are also asking to check whether the grammar school or another secondary school could be located next to the newly planned vocational school location – in order to use school sports areas together. Because half of the land south-east of Dreilingsweg belongs to the city and half to a project developer who has already signaled his willingness to develop the area, the planning department expects to be able to build there “in the short to medium term”. The key data for a development plan was already decided by the city council in December. On the other hand, a “longer-term implementation period” can be assumed in the area between the street An der Langwieder Haide and the Dreilingsweg. Because there are many private estates there.
Reconciling the interests of all these owners represents “an obstacle” to the construction of a compact settlement, according to the draft. A “perspective overplanning” is nevertheless recommended. And the traffic? Even before a competition is announced, the district committees of Pasing and Aubing demand that a large-scale traffic concept be drawn up and presented to them. Above all, the southern neighbors, above all the interest group Alte Allee/Bergsonstraße, fear that the implementation of the new district will also cause traffic on their already congested residential streets to increase significantly – including more noise and exhaust fumes.