At the Fasanerie S-Bahn station, there was almost a collision between an S-Bahn and several cars and pedestrians crossing the level crossing on Tuesday around 9 p.m. The train driver was able to brake just in time, the train stopped just before the crossing, reports the federal police. Nobody got hurt.The S1 train was heading towards Freising when it pulled into Fasanerie station. Nevertheless, the barrier on Feldmochinger Straße was open to drivers and pedestrians. According to initial investigations by...
More and more people are moving to Munich. According to the administration's forecast, by 2040 the number of inhabitants could increase by a quarter of a million to more than 1.8 million. The fact that all these people need living space is particularly noticeable where there is still free space: in the outskirts of the city. Where green spaces are used for local recreation today, residential buildings could be erected in many places in the future - which local people...
Breaking the taboos on mental illness and stress - that's the goal of "Kidstime". This is a new, free project by Diakonie Hasenbergl, which has been aimed at children and their parents who are suffering from mental stress or illness since the beginning of 2022. The social worker Claudia Mattuschat is the coordinator of the project and estimates that around 79,000 children in Munich experience a parent's mental illness every year. In the exchange with colleagues, paediatricians and therapists, the...
Butterflies dance through the air, Idas's blues and others with similarly wondrous names. It smells like thyme. It grows between knee-high blades of grass. Only a noise in the background reminds you that you are in Munich. You don't hear a river, but the traffic on Schleissheimer Straße. The Virginia depot in the Lerchenau district is only a few meters away. It is a home for endangered animals and plants. During a tour you get to know some of them...
The Ludwigsfeld settlement is an island far out from the city. In the southeast, the A99 ring road separates it from the rest of the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl district, in the east the B304 runs in the direction of Dachau, and in the north is MAN's bus and truck test track. So far, 1,500 to 1,600 people have lived in around 830 apartments from two different construction phases. Now they get new neighbors. The planning committee of the city council approved a...
The excavators are at work in Eggarten. They are tearing down the old houses that have stood in the natural area for around a hundred years. Heavy tracked vehicles, with which 14 of a total of 26 buildings are now leveled to the ground. All that is left of the house at Eggartenstrasse 9 is smashed concrete and bricks. The rest will look the same in a few days and weeks, investors confirm. They are already gutted.CA Immo and the...
No doctor nearby who can take care of the sick child? Then you drive just 30 minutes by car through the city. This is the official position of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) when it comes to the ongoing shortage of doctors in Munich. From the point of view of the KVB there is no shortage, on the contrary. According to the needs planning, Munich is considered to be "oversupplied", with a current supply level of...
Finding a midwife in Munich can be exhausting. Why is that, where in the city is it particularly difficult - and what can help with the search. Two nursing bras, comfortable underpants, health insurance card, long and short-sleeved bodysuits for the newborn: all things that can be found on checklists when it comes to the hospital bag and thus preparing for the birth of a new child. What isn't on most of these lists? How much it gets on the...
One speaks of "closeness to the citizen" in Munich when politicians in the district decide exactly the opposite of what their party colleagues want in the town hall: This is all the more certain when it comes to building. It is almost an unwritten law that the local politicians in Feldmoching-Hasenbergl, where many large building projects are pending, tirelessly demand fewer and smaller buildings. The same could happen in the most recent dispute, the Ludwigsfeld settlement on the northern outskirts...
