Traffic researchers have been preaching for years that new bypass roads will only relieve the respective municipalities to a very small extent, if at all. Instead, as a rule, they attract more cars to the region, transport the area and destroy the landscape. Therefore, the vote of the citizens of Holzkirchen in Upper Bavaria against a new bypass for their market can be understood as a hopeful sign that this insight has now reached at least parts of the population....
It's been 19 years since the people of Holzkirchner last voted on another bypass for their market town. Almost three quarters of those who voted in 2003 spoke out in favor of a southern bypass. However, the new road has not been built in the meantime, and from today's perspective that is obviously a good thing. Because on Sunday, after a council request decided by the municipal councils, the people of Holzkirchner were again asked to decide on a southern...
Car traffic is the main driver of the climate crisis in Bavaria. In 2019, cars, trucks, diesel locomotives and other means of transport in Bavaria that use fossil fuels blew 34 million tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Then came the corona lockdowns, and emissions fell to a good 27 million tons in the meantime. In the meantime, they are likely to level off again at the level of the pre-Corona period. Just like everyday life is getting back to...
The day-care center burned down on All Saints' Day, causing a great deal of property damage, but no one was injured. The police are now investigating arson.After a fire at a day care center in Upper Bavaria, the investigators assume that the fire was intentionally set. The fire was allegedly set outside the daycare center in Holzkirchen (Miesbach district) and then spread to the building. As the police announced on Wednesday, damage was estimated to be in the six-figure range....
Sometimes it's the small issues that need to be discussed before the big ones. For example, how the high school students, for whom their own school still has to be built, can safely come to class. For Wolfgang Büsch, Green party councilor and third mayor in Sauerlach, this is one of the "most difficult points". It could possibly only be solved with a traffic light at the intersection of the B 13 and the Sommerstrasse - otherwise it could be...
Deutsche Bahn had announced that after the train accident in Garmisch, trains would soon be rolling in the region again. But the local mayors are dissatisfied with the company's plans.After Deutsche Bahn announced that most of the routes in its Werdenfels network would be operational again in mid-September, the 22 mayors in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district and district administrator Anton Speer (FW) are calling for these plans to be changed. The background is DB's plan to close the main route between...
Of Maximilian Gerl and Matthias KöpfWhen Marcus Endres talks about the plans that his company, Terrain Energy, is pursuing in Holzkirchen, it all sounds very simple. "We're right," Endres quotes the motto of the market town in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach on the phone. That can even be taken literally, he says, referring to the large amount of natural gas that is supposed to be stored deep in the ground under Holzkirchen. The pipeline is already in place...
The madness can often be observed at Hofolding just behind the Munich-South junction these days: on four lanes - the hard shoulder is released when traffic is high - the tin caravan then pushes its way towards Austria and then to Italy or optionally to Croatia . This weekend, however, before Hofolding and the Munich-South junction, one of the busiest motorways in Central Europe is facing a real endurance test: the ADAC certifies that the A 99 ring road has...
It's hot in the multi-purpose hall at Otterloher Feld in Sauerlach this Wednesday evening. It's still more than 30 degrees during prime time. And yet the coming winter hovers like the sword of Damocles over the arena that Bayerischer Rundfunk has set up here outside the gates of Munich. He's worried, says Stefan Bauer. He is a master baker and confectioner in the Ratschiller business a little further south in Holzkirchen. A pretzel still costs 75 cents there, but will...
The containers at the Deisenhofen S-Bahn station in Oberhaching are already in place. At the beginning of the new school year, the first children will be taught in the new secondary school in Oberhaching on the new school campus, which is still a real temporary solution. However, there will probably be significantly fewer students than the new school could actually accommodate. As of now, says Oberhaching's Mayor Stefan Schelle (CSU), "with alas" only two predecessor classes come together instead of...
