Weird idea: in one minute on the Freisinger Domberg – Freising

The idea of ​​making the Freisinger Domberg with the newly designed Diocesan Museum barrier-free accessible by means of a lift going uphill has been haunting the city for some time. At the end of April, however, the city council’s planning committee classified the archdiocese’s plans as “vague”, an assessment that has now had to be revoked. In the design advisory board of the Freisinger city council, plans for the location and technology of the elevator were already well advanced on Monday – and with the architects Brückner und Brückner, the experts for the urban planning attractive implementation have already got to work.

The previously commissioned technicians from Freising’s Brandl und Eltschig office, while looking for the optimal location, realized relatively quickly that the claim to connect the city “in one step” with the facilities on the Domberg was only possible from the south side would, as engineer Felix Schmidt explained in the design advisory board. Possible starting points in the Moosachaue proved to be problematic, and the southern slope with its historic paths and old trees was also not wanted to be touched. So the technicians would have turned their attention to Brunnhausgasse. The narrow street itself has proven to be too narrow for the necessary valley structure, which after all also has to accommodate the technology for the elevator. At the corner of Bahnhofstrasse, however, a “gusset” was finally found that would be suitable for this.

The preferred variant for the elevator route developed by the Brandl und Eltschig office leads straight to the Domberg.

(Photo: Office Brandl and Eltschig)

At the top, the cabin lands with a view of the museum

The city has the best connection here, according to Schmidt. The elevator would be easy to reach from the train station, and the Am Wörth multi-storey car park would be in the immediate vicinity. In addition, the route to the Domberg would be the shortest here, according to Schmidt: “That is economically advantageous and the intervention in the slope is not so noticeable.” The elevator car will “land” at the top with a view of the newly designed Diocesan Museum. For the route selected in the end, coordination with nature conservation has already taken place, the interventions in the retaining walls, which are registered as monuments, can be kept to a minimum and a high level of acceptance of this variant is expected overall.

For the architects, whose turn it is now, Peter Brückner in the design advisory board described the “search for ideas” to date, for which other cities have also been looked around. Among other things, this involves a protected waiting area for passengers in the valley. However, they do not have a direct model for the archdiocese’s project: “There will be a solution in Freising.” The elevator should be usable 24 hours a day free of charge and called like a normal elevator with the push of a button. A pure travel time of one minute is expected – and the call for tenders for the cabin is already underway.

It is therefore not yet certain whether it will actually be a glass elevator in the end, which would then also provide a great view of the city. Nevertheless, everyone involved in the advisory board was certain that the project could become “a real benefit for Freising”. Design advisor Rudolf Hierl gave the architects the “impulse” to design the valley structure “not like a subway entrance” but as a real building, “perhaps in analogy to the customs houses that used to be there”.

OB sees the project as an opportunity for the whole city

Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher spoke of a “great opportunity not only for the cathedral hill, but for the whole city”. One of the aims of this is a car-free district on the Domberg, so the project would be of “great and lasting importance”. However, Eschenbacher also pointed out that the company is acting under a certain amount of time pressure because it would make sense to finish it by 2024. Then, on the occasion of the diocese jubilee “1300 years of Saint Corbinian in Freising”, the state exhibition will come to the cathedral city, as a joint project of the Free State of Bavaria and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising – and primarily up on the Domberg.

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