In order to create the "citizens' report" on the parcel post area, 112 randomly selected Munich residents between the ages of 14 and 80, divided into four groups (so-called "planning cells"), spent four days each working on different aspects of the construction project employed. Nicolas Bach from the Nexus Institute, which led the process, emphasizes that 23 percent of the participants were between 14 and 24 years old, "these are people we usually have a really hard time getting to"....
The police were on duty in Laim on Monday evening with a large contingent of around 15 police patrols and a helicopter. The trigger was an emergency call shortly after half past seven, as a police spokesman for the SZ said. The caller reported a "gunshot" from an underground car park on Fürstenrieder Strasse.During their investigations on site, the officers then found that a shot had actually been fired, but only from a blank pistol. Previously there had been "disputes...
The police are looking for a stranger who on Sunday a week ago attacked a Syrian family on platform 1 in the Laim S-Bahn station and allegedly insulted them in a xenophobic manner.According to the police, he first kicked a 53-year-old from Fürstenfeldbruck in the legs around 4 p.m. When asked about it by their 30-year-old daughter, he insulted the family in a racist manner and spat in their direction. Later on, the man hit the father.The 58-year-old was able...
Concentration, creativity and well-considered action: In several schools in Munich, chess is on the schedule alongside math and German. The concept is called "The King's Plan" and is intended to help transfer strategies from the board to everyday life.from Kathrin AldenhoffRanija and Felix sit across from each other in the classroom and brood. The third graders push pawns, bishops and knights across a chessboard and try to remember the position of the pieces they just saw on the board. "How...
A 44-year-old tenant came across a not entirely common find in his new apartment in the Laim district of Munich. As he moved in, he noticed an envelope with the address of the previous tenant behind a radiator. Inside there were other envelopes, each with a lot of cash.The man took her to the police station. The count there resulted in more than 20,000 euros. The officials learned that the 61-year-old previous tenant is now under care.After presenting a court...
A toddler lets sand trickle through his hands, over and over again. People sit in deck chairs, with beer or a soda. Others do exercises that look like yoga. And in the back a ball is thrown over the net. No, this is not a beach, on the Adriatic Sea or in the south of France - even if it feels a bit like that.The location of the action is an air dome near the Laim S-Bahn station, on the...
After the two fires in a 16-story skyscraper in Laim, the police are now looking for a 71-year-old. He is suspected of having started the fire in an apartment on the ninth floor at around 4:10 a.m. on Thursday and then lit a car in the underground car park. The fire had spread to a second vehicle and damaged a third.The man had moved away from the house on Hauzenberger Strasse after the alleged arson and has been on the...
The fire brigade was deployed with a large number of fires in Munich-Laim. A car caught fire in the underground car park of a high-rise building early Thursday morning, a fire department spokesman said. The fire spread to another car and affected a third vehicle. The underground car park is smoky and there are several high-performance and large fans installed.Upon arrival in the skyscraper, the emergency services discovered a second fire in the same building: the kitchen of an apartment...
In the award-winning landscape park in Berg am Laim, young people regularly celebrate without much consideration for the biotope and neighbors. This bothers the residents, they want their peace and quiet. The district tries to mediate - but is a fair solution even possible in such a case?from Lea KramerBehind the white residential towers, a gravel stretch leads to impassable terrain. Anyone who walks along here knows the terrain or knows that something can be expected here. Between parked cars...
A pile of wood: Hundreds of trees are expected to give way along Gotthardstrasse in January 2022 to make room for the construction work to extend the U5 from Laimer Platz to the future Willibaldstrasse station and on to Pasing. It has not yet been clarified whether the trunks actually fall or are partially replanted. As the municipal horticulture has now communicated to the Laim district committee on request, "the tree population affected is currently being recorded as part of...