In the Eggarten in Munich – Half a beer was sold here for 48 pfennigs in the mid-1960s. There was a coal dealer around the corner. In between, a general store offered rolls and bread. The television was set up in the gazebo and all the neighbors joined in when Peter Kraus introduced his blue jeans girl.
This is what a story sounds like that you could experience in the 1960s. It is in the north of Munich, near the Olympic site, in the Eggartensiedlung. In 1920 the Federal Railroad opened up the meadow area. And the railway workers were allowed to build a small house on the site. In 1920 a garden colony with 62 houses was created. “I have never bought vegetables in the supermarket in my life. We had grown everything ourselves, ”says one resident. But all of the houses are abandoned today, except for a few. What happened? The Federal Railroad has sold the entire area to an investor. And they want to build. 1800 residential units are to be built in apartment blocks with up to 12 floors. 1000 trees have grown on the area and have developed splendidly in 100 years.
In March 2021, the Munich City Council gave the signal: “The buyer of the entire property may build”. A cry of indignation goes through the indignant citizens. Should the green paradise disappear? Including birds, toads, bees, hedgehogs and butterflies. And for the city it was a fresh air corridor that is now being built by concrete blocks.
A group has organized to fight against it. But this fight seems already lost. This site has written 100 years of history. And that’s why a house has the chance to keep this story. It is supposed to be allowed to stand and remind of the old days when a garden settlement made the inhabitants happy. Construction should start in 2024. And then, excavators and co. Will flatten the last idyll in the city of Munich.
Written down by Klaus Bichlmeier, time travel Bavaria. Photo by K. Bichlmeier
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