A waste incineration plant, a sewage treatment plant, then the magnetic levitation train: these plans were too much for seven community leaders from the north of Munich. They banded together and fought back. Why their Northern Alliance was so successful.
In the beginning there was the garbage mountain. To be more precise, a huge mountain of rubbish that was already piling up around his municipality in the late 1970s before the inner eye of Helmut Karl, then SPD mayor of Garching. A waste and sewage sludge incineration plant was to be built north of Munich, as well as a large sewage treatment plant so that Munich could dispose of the waste and sewage from its growing population and keep the city itself clean. After all, so the reasoning behind closed doors, there were already several facilities in the north with a rather dirty infrastructure, such as the combined heat and power plant in Unterföhring or the military training area on the southern Fröttmaninger Heide – other so-called negative facilities would be in good company. In addition, the water flows north from Munich – ideal for a sewage treatment plant. But the people in the north of the state capital and their political representatives saw things differently.