When it comes to poetic names for their projects, real estate developers often show imagination, in the case of “Hofmark am Olympiapark”, for example, which is located directly on the noisy Lerchenauer Straße and much closer to the BMW factory site than to the Olympiapark, or with “Maison Lucile” , a six-storey block of flats on Einsteinstrasse, which is no less noisy. CA Immo, on the other hand, hit the mark with the name of its project at the Feldmoching U-Bahn and S-Bahn station: “Langes Land” is the name of the planned residential area on a narrow, still undeveloped strip on Ratoldstrasse and Raheinstrasse to the east of the railway line. The planning committee of the city council has now finally created the legal building conditions for the project.
In the zoning plan, a green area will become residential areas, and the development plan provides for two general residential areas, with 30 percent of the apartments to be subsidized and 70 percent to be privately financed. At its widest point, the “Lange Land” measures about 120 meters, the total length is almost one and a half kilometers.
Two seven-story buildings are planned
900 apartments for around 2,000 people are to be built on the 11.6-hectare site, one part south of the station car park and the discounter on Dülferstrasse, the other part north of it. The central area – the car park property belongs to the city, the supermarket property to CA Immo – will eventually form the center of the new quarter. Because the owners are not yet in agreement, this part of the planning is separated.
The residential buildings are spread across four building sites north and eight building sites south of the center of the quarter. Three to six storey buildings with two seven-storey “accents” are planned in the southern part, and houses with one to four storeys in the north. The buildings are grouped around private courtyards and are higher towards the west, towards the railway station, than towards the east towards the next settlement. Noise barriers up to 4.50 meters high should offer protection against railway noise. Greening and photovoltaics are planned for the roofs. Three day care centers are planned with a total of ten kindergarten and ten crèche groups.
Critics speak of “little Manhattan”
Many Feldmochinger have objected to the urban development project. The size of the residential area, the height of the buildings, the extent of the influx are criticized – there is talk of “little Manhattan”, the village character is being lost. The Bund Naturschutz fears negative effects on the urban climate if the undeveloped areas along the railway line are sealed, the district committee would like to have accommodated as many businesses as apartments in the “Langen Land”.
The planning department, on the other hand, argues that Munich urgently needs apartments and that the “Lange Land” directly on the U-Bahn and S-Bahn is ideally suited for this. In addition, there have long been buildings in Feldmoching that are higher and settlements that are just as densely built up. The degree of sealing is still acceptable.
In the planning committee, Paul Bickelbacher (Greens), Simone Burger (SPD) and Alexander Reissl (CSU) unanimously praised the “best-developed location” of the 900 apartments. Dirk Höpner (München-Liste), who was the only one who voted against the statutory resolution for the development plan and the change in the land use plan, regretted that the center of the quarter would only be built later. “A place where you like to go would have been important.”
The fact that the center is missing is regrettable, it will be “subsequently delivered”, replied Paul Bickelbacher (Greens). When is open, because for the time being CA Immo cannot even say when it will start building the apartments in the “Langen Land”. “First of all, the architecture has to be defined and the building construction and development projects have to be planned,” says press spokesman Markus Diekow.