Hallbergmoos – Instead of taking the plane to Maui, just take the board to the S-Bahn? This might soon be an alternative for surfing enthusiasts. Of course, surfing has a tradition in Munich, the wave on the Eisbach is world famous. But is there still sea? Apparently, this is what the initiators of a project with many superlatives think.
Planned surf facility on 20,000 square meters
Under the title “Surftown Muc”, no less than the largest surf park in Europe is to be built in the municipality of Hallbergmoos. According to a message from those responsible for the construction project, the first surfers might be on the water there in two years – the surf facility that is planned is to be as large as almost three football fields with 20,000 square meters.
“In the basin, ‘running’ waves can be generated every ten seconds over a length of 180 meters to a height of over two meters,” explain the founders around Chris Boehm-Tettelbach, who himself comes from the Munich surfing scene. Such a wave, in contrast to the standing one, as you know it from the Eisbach, corresponds more to the surfing experience in the sea, it continues.
Surfpark is scheduled to open in early summer 2023
Now the municipality of Hallbergmoos has approved the development plan for the Surftown project, a work-life quarter, which is to be built at Lilienthalstraße 12 in the airport community, has been approved. The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled to take place in the autumn of this year, so that the plant might open in early summer 2023, according to the ambitious goal.
The project envisages even more, but it is not done with the surf facility alone: in addition, an approximately 29,000 square meter “hybrid building” for offices, restaurants and retail is to be built. In Hallbergmoos, leisure time and work are to be combined in an “exemplary new way”, it is said.
In addition to Chris Boehm-Tettelbach, Managing Director of Planworx GmbH, the investors in the project also include Conrad Albert, who recently left the Board of ProSiebenSat1, and surfer Michi Mohr. Other shareholders of Surftown Hallbergmoos GmbH are Gerfried Schuller, Jan Ehrhardt, Thomas Heinrich and Erik Dahl.
“Tradition and vision for a better quality of life in the future”
The waves are to be created, on which, according to the plan, up to 700 surfers might ride daily, through a pneumatic chamber system, the responsible persons – and the CO2-neutral with electricity from purely renewable energies, for example from our own photovoltaic system.
Another sustainable aspect, of course, is that surfing enthusiasts, of whom there are a lot in and around Munich, no longer have to get on a plane to pursue their hobby.
“With the holistic Surftown Muc concept, we can once once more and a vision for a better quality of life in the future,”says Alexander Mademann, Economic development Manager of the municipality of Hallbergmoos.
Mayor Josef Niedermair is also behind the project. A “solid double-digit million amount” of equity and debt capital with 20 percent public funding will be invested for the ambitious project, as Conrad Albert told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
River wave in Wolfratshausen: news is here
For years, surfing has also been a big part of the life of Stefanie Kastner, who founded the association “Surfing Wolfratshausen” with her husband. For eight years, they have been working on realizing a river wave in the Loisach.
As the chairman of the association now tells AZ, the long-awaited water rights decision has finally arrived recently, which is positive for the construction and operation of the shaft. A big milestone, Kastner said on Thursday with relief to AZ: “We are very pleased regarding this.”
The enthusiastic surfer also welcomes the customer regarding the plans in Hallbergmoos. There is no competition, it is a completely different concept. And: “Surfing is such a great sport, the more opportunities there are, the better,” says Kastner. In the Loisach, she is planning a wave with the association, which is created without electricity due to the height difference, “this suits us quite well from the ecological point of view,” she says.
Next, the construction work would now have to be tendered – and if everything goes according to plan, the first surfers might swing on the board in Wolfratshausen in early summer next year. “So far we have received so much positive feedback, we assume that this will work out,” says Kastner of AZ. In Nuremberg, too, the dream of a surf spot on the doorstep has been pursued for years – the excavators have already rolled in there; this summer, the river wave is to be completed in a canal next to the Pegnitz.
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