In the video for "Dark Horizon" Ashanti Šabić really gets going. Just as you would expect from the singer of a metal band, since Doro Pesch sang in a leather bodice at the front of the Düsseldorf band "Warlock". Her voice sounds confident and sensual. No question, you have to be able to rock out like Šabić at the age of 19. And yet you would As it rains not fair as a band if you reduce their music to...
The municipality of Unterföhring is looking for a new head of its finance department. The 11,000-inhabitant community in the north of Munich is one of the financially strongest in Bavaria and regularly manages a household budget of several hundred million euros. Anyone who wants to be responsible for finance, accounting, taxes, fees and charges, asset accounting and the municipal treasury in Unterföhring should not be afraid of large numbers. The replacement is necessary because the previous treasurer and head of...
The first stage has been completed: The municipality of Unterföhring has now been accepted as a member of the Association of Cycle-Friendly Municipalities in Bavaria (AGFK). At an event organized by the Bavarian Ministry of Transport in Munich, Mayor Andreas Kemmelmeyer (PWU) and mobility manager Caroline Borus received the membership certificate from Ministerial Director Thomas Gruber and Matthias Dießl, Chairman of AGFK Bayern and District Administrator of the Fürth district, as stated in a statement from the Unterföhring town hall...
On behalf of the district of Munich, workers are again taking care of trees and shrubs in the recreation areas in February. According to the district office, these are necessary to continue to ensure a "safe, healthy and aesthetic stock of trees and shrubs". The work is taking place on Lake Feringasee, Lake Heimstetten, Lake Unterschleißheim, Lake Deininger Weiher, Dürnsteiner Bridge (hiking car park) and Lake Unterföhring and the adjacent forest areas.According to the district office, over-aged and fragile shrubs...
More and more people in Germany are reaching old age. In 2021, the Federal Statistical Office counted a good 23,500 people in Germany who were 100 years old or even older, which is the highest number of centenarians in the past ten years. Women are significantly more represented than men: around 80 percent of centenarians are female. Two of them live in the municipality of Unterföhring in the district of Munich - and have now celebrated their birthday together.As luck...
"Now the last gap is closed." This is how Lothar Stetz, director of the adult education center in the north of the district of Munich, expresses his joy at the completion of the new building in Garching, which the educational institution will from now on share with the local neighborhood help. The long period of starving and improvising for the VHS Nord in the university town is now a thing of the past. While in the past few years spacious...
The people in charge of the Familien-Haus association in Unterföhring are overjoyed: the municipal council approved by a large majority to provide the initiative with rooms for its activities. In the future, the association will hold its courses, counseling hours and meetings in a former family home on Tulpenstraße and will be able to expand the range of services. After months of debates, Unterföhring is getting the central point of contact for families that many people want.Benjamin Röck and Kathrin...
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...
On the site of the current town hall in Unterföhring, the municipality wants to create a multi-generation center after the administration has moved. Whether in the existing building or in a new building, there is disagreement.For years, the activists in Unterföhring have wanted a place where the various social institutions and advice centers for all age groups can be found together. This should be centrally located and offer enough space so that all the committed offices, of which there are...
From this week onwards, drivers will have to slow down on the Unterföhring through-pass: On a section of the Münchner Straße, the state road 2053, a speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour applies during the weekday. The Munich District Office, in consultation with the Freising State Building Authority, has set this speed limit in order to make the way to school safer for the pupils of the elementary school on Bahnhofstrasse. Since many children visit the after-school care center...
