The Hachinger Tal landscape park is 126 hectares in size. In order to be able to better imagine the extent of this local recreation area between Unterhaching, Neubiberg and Ottobrunn, here is the usual comparison with the football fields: Because they are usually a little smaller than one hectare, one can assume that this area, which many visitors like used for walking, skating and cycling is roughly the size of 176 football pitches. The old runway alone is 2.5 kilometers long. You’ve been there for a while. And if you have to?
That’s a perfectly valid question. Because unlike the 176 soccer fields on the site of the former air base, as of this week there is no longer a toilet to be seen far and wide. No toilet, no public toilet, no Thunderbolt, no urinal, no latrine. And if you are unlucky not even a bush. Because large areas of the landscape park are made up of meadows that can be overlooked as far as the horizon, an expanse that is rarely so close to the city. Quite apart from the fact that wild bees between the beach volleyball court and fun park is not a nice idea. You don’t even want to think about a bigger discharge.
For many years there were at least mobile toilets in the landscape park. Nobody likes going to the dixi toilets. But the plastic cabins are always better than nothing. But their time in Unterhaching is finally over, just a year before the practical invention of the US soldier Fred Edwards, who is stationed in the Ruhr area, turns 50. The reason for the toilet-less age that is now dawning is sheer vandalism. First the toilet houses set up in the landscape park were knocked over, and for some time they have also been set on fire. In City Hall you wonder why people come up with such a shitty idea. In any case, the operators of the blue emergency rooms are finally fed up with Unterhaching and have terminated the community after a last probation. It’s the second toilet company to give up at this point. This is how the quiet little place in the landscape park becomes a place of longing.