Fröttmaninger Berg
The Fröttmaninger Mountain is a recreation area on the 75 -meter-high former landfill on the northern outskirts of Munich. It is situated in the Munich district Freimann, on the highway Munich - Nuremberg ( A9 ) with respect to the Allianz Arena. In addition, he is surrounded by the motorway intersection München -Nord, Autobahnring Munich ( A 99 ), the Freising country road with the Auensiedlung and the Freimann Mosque as well as the wastewater treatment plant Good Großlappen. Visible from the wind turbine at its peak; is the Holy Cross Church an interesting sight at the foot of the mountain.
Landfill
In 1954, the landfill was Großlappen opened to exploit the growing amount of waste, which arose in the times of the economic miracle, and deposit. The nearby settlement Froettmaning had to the church after and soft after the growing mountain of waste. As 1965, the recovery and separation plant burned down, was just dumped or burned in the incinerator.
In the 1960s, the environmental problems have become increasingly serious. At the top of the garbage mountain a " Giftsee ", were disposed of in the chemicals that groundwater contamination grew more and more developed. Regularly created major fires on the mountain of rubbish, dust and stench also harassed the more distant residents and the garbage mountain grew. A total of 12 million cubic meters of accumulated garbage.
Renaturation
There has already been started in 1973 with a partial restoration, but it was not until the 80s, until the mountain was completely landscaped and because of a new landfill and incineration larger capacity, the landfill was closed. In 1985, a subterranean, up to 20 m deep concrete wall has been installed, in order to protect groundwater. Simultaneously, a degasser was installed to dispose of the resulting fermentation gases. The resulting through the rain leachate is collected by a special plant, controls on pollutants and introduced into the treatment plant. At the end of several layers of soil were applied with a height of two meters.
In 2009, restoration measures were carried out again, because part of the soil had slipped.
Park
On 35 hectares, now spanning a diverse structured parkland. Meadows and native wood structures alternate. The meadows are maintained by extensive sheep grazing. At the foot of the mountain slope, the effluent water forms a wetland. The Fröttmaninger mountain is an important building block in the biotope network environment, in particular the adjacent floodplain forest and the Fröttmaninger Heath.
Recreation
The residents of Munich's north is the mountain for walks and bike rides, a playground for children was also created. In the winter, it serves as a sledding hill. It is planned to build on the mountain a winter sports area with three lifts, which will go in the winter 2012/2013 into operation.
Holy Cross Church
→ Main article Holy Cross Church ( Froettmaning )
With the built at the beginning of the 13th century Holy Cross Church of the oldest surviving church building in the city of Munich is located on the Fröttmaninger mountain. Between 1960 and 2006, several citizens' initiatives preserved the church from various construction projects.
Art installation " Sunken Village "
→ see also Sunken Village
The art installation Sunken Village of the artist Timm Ulrichs addresses the issue of the disappearance of Froettmaning; a replica of the Holy Cross church was almost sinking placed in the Fröttmaninger mountain.
Wind Turbine
Since 1999, stands at the " summit " which operated by Stadtwerke München wind turbine Froettmaning.
The windmill is now available for visitors who come from Nuremberg (A9 ), has become a kind of ecological symbol of Munich.
During the Christmas season in 2009, the wind power plant by the light installation Star of the South "the greatest Christmas star in the world".