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Sendling and Sendling-Westpark There are few districts in which the dramatic transformation that Munich has undergone since the Second World War can be seen as clearly as it can in Sendling-Westpark. The area that used to be dominated by the fields and meadows of the surrounding farms is now an urban district with neighbourhoods set in green surroundings. Many of the apartment buildings were constructed in the 1950s, with simple coal stoves and coal hot water boilers, and in part without bathrooms – a far cry from the composite thermal insulation systems and solar panels of today. Even though the architecture of this period is undergoing a renaissance, art historians and monument conservationists have generally restricted their enthusiasm to official buildings with slim profiles and clear line designs. There is no talk of the beauty of a bygone lifestyle on the breadline. The ambivalent strata of the economic miracle can be peeled back layer by layer, starting with the simple buildings, whose sole purpose was to alleviate the chronic shortage of housing and going all the way to the expansive estates, long since set in generously dimensioned green surroundings, with trees that are themselves witnesses of times gone by. Green is also a constant theme of Sendling-Westpark. And what would fit this theme better than the splendid landscape park of the same name, created for the International Garden Exhibition IGA in 1983. Divided into two sections by the Mittlerer Ring, the 60,000 square metres of parkland, pathways and green fields with a beer garden and lakeside café are a veritable blessing. Landscape architect Peter Kluska has created an expansive landscape of artificial moraine hills, that offers something for everyone: joggers and families, amateur gardeners and rose fans, or those who simply wish to take a pleasant walk or have a barbecue in pleasant surroundings. The park is a melting pot of Munich’s nations and social groups. The area is in many ways the direct opposite of the altogether more plain and simple park on the Isar. The Westpark is the scene of all manner of leisure activities, including volleyball and football, walking, cycling and sledging, acrobatics and chess. With its open-air theatre and cinema on the lakeside stage and numerous festivals, including many for children, the park, which is now over 25 years old, is the backbone of the entire neighbourhood. Now that a tunnel is being built below the Mittlere Ring on the Garmischer Strasse and the area is undergoing traffic calming, virtually eliminating noise and emissions, the advantages of the district are becoming clearer: its central position and astounding green spaces, which remain a joy to behold, despite the modernisation and building works. Here, Sendling- Westpark is green, unbelievably green. 58
The expanding city: Sendling and Sendling-Westpark The farming village of Sendling was first mentioned in 782. There were villages all the way to Wolfratshausen almost until the end of the nineteenth century, at which point Munich looked to the south and found Ober-, Mitter- and Untersendling (Upper, Middle and Lower Sendling) on the Isar slope, to be a sanctuary in the face of the rampant housing shortage. At that time, the Sendling-Westpark of today did not even exist. “Munich has only one graveyard before the Sendling Gate”, writes Karl Baedecker 1846 in his “Handbook for Travellers in Germany and the Austrian Empire State.” A “large number of monuments remind one of those who have passed away.” The father of the travel guide also remarks on the holy water font, “constructed in 1831 in memory of the upland farmers who fell at Sendling at Christmas 1705 for the royal house.” Of course, Sendling’s Night of Murder is an essential part of Sendling’s history, but history didn’t stop there. Or, perhaps we should say that it largely bypassed the villages on the southern side of the Bavarian capital. If, in 1890, you had taken the difficult path along what was to become the Lindwurmstrasse, you would have been surrounded by farmers’ fields, which would later gradually give way to tenements, residential blocks and small apartments for workers and tradesmen, as well as industrial buildings. Then, the Südbahnhof was built, connecting today’s District 6 to the rail network. Warehouses were built, followed by the slaughterhouse in 1876 and the great market halls in 1910, around which further shops and businesses resided. Up until the 1920s, it was the residential blocks for low earners that characterised Sendling more than anything else. The former town centre, high above the Isar, with its Old Sendling Church of St. Margaret, was not incorporated into the City of Munich until 1 st January 1877. This of course included the fields and meadows to the west, the area that would later form the site of Sendling- Westpark. Section of the city map from 1929 showing the first urban planning for what was at the time still an agricultural area. 59
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Building for Munich GWG München Re
Page 10 and 11: The Maikäfer Estate (Maikäfersied
Page 12 and 13: The Maikäfer Estate in Berg am Lai
Page 14 and 15: Rebuild or renovate? When water dam
Page 16 and 17: Renovation as a service to the city
Page 18 and 19: 16 The Körper family in their old
Page 20: Living together in the Maikäfer Es
Page 23 and 24: 9 GWG Projects 1 St.-Michael-Strass
Page 25 and 26: View of garden side Floor plan of a
Page 27 and 28: Floor plan of attic, section (top)
Page 29 and 30: Former street view of the Kainzenba
Page 31 and 32: Garden (top), Section of the first
Page 33 and 34: Detail of balcony Gardens accessed
Page 35 and 36: Building type B - street side with
Page 37 and 38: Street view (top), Detail showing b
Page 39 and 40: Street view of Bad-Schachener-Stras
Page 41 and 42: Green courtyard Roof garden Atrium
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Page 45 and 46: Balconies to the west Playground in
Page 47 and 48: … and looking north N Floor plan
Page 49 and 50: Plan of open spaces Krumbadstrasse
Page 51: Sections of the southern view (top)
Page 62 and 63: After the Second World War, the gap
Page 64 and 65: Emphasis on communal living: Bavari
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Page 72 and 73: Ecological modernisation Hinterbär
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Page 82 and 83: Modernisation and extension Alpspit
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The Au renovation project GWG proje
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Views of the inside Presentation of
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Mariahilfplatz 23 - 27 View from th
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Schweigerstrasse 16 View from the g
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Layout before (top) and after moder
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Plan of open spaces: Auer Mühlbach
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View of Auer Mühlbach before (top)
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Paulanerplatz 8 and 9, eastern view
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Sunny green courtyards with a varie
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N Lilienstrasse Paulanerplatz Locat
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