During the Corona pandemic there was a real camping boom. Nevertheless, the Putzbrunn motorhome outfitter Truma got into trouble last year. In December there were even layoffs at the company, which is considered the European market leader in heating and maneuvering systems. About ten percent of the more than 700 employees are said to have lost their jobs. According to Truma, it has been the leading accessory specialist in the field of caravanning for 70 years. In 1961, the company...
The not-yet-old vacuum cleaner gives up the ghost, the radio suddenly stops making a sound and the heating wires on the toaster stay cold. The frustration is usually great when technical devices break down. And the question that follows is whether you really have to throw the thing away now. Everyone is talking about sustainability and scarce resources. But because manufacturers and specialist stores hardly ever repair anymore, a good ten years ago people resorted to self-help: the first repair...
The Kreissparkasse München Starnberg Ebersberg has reopened several temporarily closed self-service branches after a series of bomb attacks on ATMs. Customers can use it to withdraw money from ATMs at the Technical University in Garching, in the Hochbrück district, in the Neukeferloh district of Grasbrunn, in Putzbrunn, Hohenbrunn and Oberhaching. The ATM in Inning am Ammersee was reopened before Christmas.The district savings bank took the terminals out of operation as a precautionary measure in early December to prevent possible bomb...
As they get older, many people have problems reading their mail, sorting it or judging its urgency, for example when energy suppliers are currently charging price increases. The district of Munich has therefore launched the "Postpaten" project and intends to expand it in the coming year. More than 80 interested people took part in the first information evening this year, and around half were trained as postal sponsors. "The need is there, sometimes senior citizens even have to wait because...
In den vergangenen beiden Jahren mussten viele Menschen wegen der Corona-Pandemie auf vieles verzichten, was das Leben lebenswert macht. Mit dem Kriegsbeginn in der Ukraine sind weitere Sorgen hinzugekommen. Zu Weihnachten möchte der SZ-Adventskalender, das Hilfswerk der Süddeutschen Zeitung, daher einigen Menschen aus dem Landkreis einen Herzenswunsch erfüllen.Eine Dampferfahrt für die Erinnerung"Wann hört das endlich auf?" Diese Frage hat Renate Bauer während des Lockdowns in der Corona-Pandemie so oft gehört. Sie leitet die beiden Wohnheime für Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung der...
The community of Brunnthal has joined the working group (Arge) Wärmewende in the district of Munich, which the communities of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and Hohenbrunn brought into being in October. The aim is to convert Brunnthal to a sustainable heat supply, for example through local and district heating. As a member of the consortium, you could bridge the time until a possible supply of district heating through deep geothermal energy, which is possible in ten years at the earliest. Alternatively, the municipality...
In recent years, there have always been innovative proposals in the district of Munich to speed up the turnaround in traffic and to get more people to switch to public transport. Trams should connect Unterschleißheim, Garching and Ismaning, gondolas should hover over the Hachinger and Isar valleys, and a magnetic levitation train was also discussed. So far none of this has become a reality. The measure of all things in local public transport in the district of Munich is still...
The social committee of the district of Upper Bavaria has released almost one million euros in funding to support two construction projects in the district of Munich. According to the district, the projects in Oberschleißheim and Putzbrunn promote the participation of people with disabilities. With its financial help, the construction of a new residential complex for people with disabilities in Oberschleißheim and a support center in Putzbrunn are made possible.The non-profit Augustinum GmbH is planning a dormitory with 24 places...
Individually designed vacations, ideally with as little contact with other people as possible - that's what makes traveling in a mobile home so appealing. And that's why campers have experienced a boom in recent years, which has been given a further boost by Corona. The big problem, however, is that very few municipalities have enough parking spaces, so that campers often block parking spaces, much to the annoyance of local residents.In Putzbrunn, this topic has often been an issue in...
The fact that the darkest times of the pandemic are over is already evident from the response: More than a hundred visitors, three times more than in the previous year, came to the Putzbrunn community center on Thursday evening to find out about the relevant events in the community at the annual community meeting allow. And Mayor Edwin Klostermeier (SPD) also hinted in his report that one could take a deep breath when it came to Corona, which is why...
