If you – like me – grew up not far from Ansbach, where the US military is stationed, you are no stranger to the driving noise of tanks. When there was a maneuver again, we children stood right on the side of the road and watched the columns on the village streets passing by. There were no barriers or distance at that time. No earmuffs either. You could reach out to the vehicles. Tanks have also been familiar for generations in the Munich district of Allach in the north of the city. They used to rattle over open terrain there until they withdrew to the test track on Ludwigsfelder Strasse in 1964.
And that’s exactly what local residents are now questioning. They have been rebelling against the plant in their neighborhood for some time because of the noise and exhaust fumes. Since the armaments group Krauss-Maffei Wegmann wants to put the immission control approval on a new footing. The critics now see themselves on the upswing because, according to the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment, the test track has never been approved under building law. That must now be made up for. In addition, a criminal complaint is still pending against the operator and a lawsuit against the city of Munich, which had always assumed grandfathering. A feast for the lawyers.
On Tuesday, for the first time, a thousand employees of the armaments group took to the streets to preserve the test field and around 1,650 jobs. “Where people work, it’s sometimes noisy,” was the tenor. But the city now has to ask itself how important its industry is to it (SZ Plus). But there is no doubt that today’s tanks are a lot quieter than they were in the days of childhood.
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