A Café, a Museum, a diving pool, a wind turbine: There are always more ideas for the old chimney of the combined heat and power plant in the South. The Stadtwerke are pressing ahead with the demolition anyway. The Munich-based Green that’s going too fast. The party has advised on Monday in a group session through the old vent and decided to make this week a classification application in the city Council. the Michael Zirnstein
The Munich city utilities want to attach the middle of this week a lift on the South side of the 176-Meter-high chimney at the power plant South. Friends of the “Sendlinger tor”, “landmark”, the hope is now that this is the first measure to rescue the since 1997, is no longer active Vent, rejoice too soon. And certainly not the outdoor lift at some point curious citizens to carry to a viewing platform or to a Museum-Café at the top of the fireplace – with the plans for such use had been a good week, the Munich-based Gastro-young entrepreneur Daniel Hahn for attention, and the fantasies inspired.
With the external lift to be workers and Material are transported to inside the four exhaust pipes made of steel of up to 2,90 meters in diameter dismantle. This should be done until the middle of the year, then get started with the Dismantling of the outer shell. Because the municipal utility does not maintain that a cultural use during operation and during the subsequent reconstruction in a geothermal system possible. Because you have to pull every single visitor to a safety audit. Even if visits appear in the flagship projects, other energy suppliers, such as the “experience of power plant Walchensee” (with Café) is quite straightforward, and desirable, to enter the Munich municipal utility to the narrow area in Sendling, apparently, no risks.
The Munich-based Green everything is going to fast. The party has advised on Monday in a group session through the old vent and decided to make this week a classification application in the city Council, before the public utilities completed to create facts. “For some, the fireplace is an interesting high point in the Skyline,” explains Anja Berger of the Green, “the other the cultural use of: observation towers with cafe like, but for every city something Great. And Daniel Hahn’s Plan like that, of course, just for a sustainability Museum.”
Now the city of statics, the need for Remediation and maintenance costs with a view to an alternative use – may be only time – like an observation deck with a Café or even a Graffiti project to investigate. “Well then, if it does not come out, the fireplace is technically suitable,” says Berger, “but it’s great if there are people who build castles in the air.” So you says Hahn, of Munich, with its Gastro-steamer Old Utting has earned a place of interest.
The SWM would have for a “mega blast” the “wherewithal”
Hahn is now also become a beacon of hope for other, with the chimney of their own plans. Reinhard Fuchs, for example, a wind would like to set up the turbine for power generation in draughty height. He wanted to 2011, at that time, the municipal utilities offered to the chief of the Munich Futag environmental technology AG, after all, the roof of the power station at the Drygalski-Allee (now Kare). Since the Fox is not there blew enough to set it to be a wind Turbine for two years as a test on the Siemens high-rise building. After the Fukushima accident, even a Delegation from Japan came to visit. Now the Chance of the project together with the valve drive would be, and to produce for a Museum of electricity.
Oliver Koehne has already asked Hahn if he “could spare the the bottom 50, 60 meters of the fireplace”. Koehne is a free-diving (without breathing apparatus) dive free Munich. His dream is to be a year-round usable deep-dive pot tower, as he attracts in Padua frog people from all over the world, and how he’s in Essex for just 20 million euros will be built. The SWM would have for a “mega blast” the “wherewithal” and the “know-how in the bathing technique”. The residual heat in the geothermal system, the water could be heated pleasantly, explained Köhne: “This is unique what we have here in Munich.”
