Residents of the brockardt area are skeptical

The good news: the land of the former brockardt concrete factory and the former dairy farm on kanonenweg, which has lain fallow since 2000, will be built on. The edeka group of companies in northern bavaria-saxony-thuringia wants to build a supermarket as well as a student residence and a senior citizens’ residence on the site. Residential development is planned in the core area – a small new district is being created there.

Traffic chaos feared

This will have an impact on residents, especially in kalenderweg and scharnhorststrabe. There, the construction plans elicited skepticism and, in some cases, rejection. This became clear at an information event on tuesday evening in the rosengarten congress center. The owners of the neighboring properties fear traffic chaos in kalenderweg. From there, an access road will lead into the residential area. In addition, they are concerned that the red creek, which is to be relocated, comes too close to their homes.
But first, edeka regional manager stephan kohler explained what is actually planned for the 3.8-hectare site. A preliminary investigation has shown that there are still contaminated sites in the soil that need to be removed. "We will have to remove several thousand cubic meters of soil", he said. In addition, the rottenbach, which runs across the land and is currently still encased in concrete, is to be renaturalized and relocated to the eastern boundary of the site. And here the first criticism of the directly affected residents began. They fear that especially during heavy rainfall the water will press on their properties. Matthias kohler, who was responsible for the hydraulic expertise, countered that the water management office had found the plan to be sound and had not raised any concerns. In addition, the renaturation, together with the existing retention basin, will reduce the flow of water and alleviate the situation.
Another point of discussion was the development and its consequences for traffic. On the one hand, there is the edeka market with around 2600 square meters of sales area, a bakery with open seating area and the associated parking spaces. In addition, a parking garage is planned on the land of the former milk yard with 300 parking spaces. The development will take place via kanonenweg. There will be fub and bike paths throughout the gelande area.

130 housing units

The access to the northern part of the residential area with about 130 intended residential units as well as to the senior and student residence is planned from kalenderweg. Against this there was the grossest resistance. Especially since a traffic forecast for the year 2020, presented by peter knieling, predicts about a doubling of traffic volume in both kanonenweg and kalenderweg during peak hours in the morning and afternoon. "We can hardly get out of our properties now when the cars are jammed up at the railroad overpass", stated a local resident. And another pointed out that the calendar path is already half parked and it is sometimes difficult to move forward. "We have now sometimes already chaos. What will it be like then??"

Plans are openly available

Joachim trager from the city planning office pointed out that the plans have been on display for four weeks and will remain so until 9. September in the amtergebaude open to the public. "There you can express your concerns and give your opinion." Also on the homepage of the city under burgerservice/veroffentlichungen or in the baublog the plans are visible. "Everything is then discussed in the building and environment senate and nothing is swept under the carpet."

Georg witt from the engineering office explained what larvae will affect the residents of the neighboring properties and the new residential buildings. The impact of the businesses, the parking garage, the development traffic as well as the railroad line in the northern area have been scrutinized. The result: both the senior citizens’ and the students’ dormitories will be exposed to relatively high levels of traffic because they will be built along the railroad line. Noise protection must be provided on the construction side. Because both buildings are planned to be four to five stories high, they will serve as a barrier to the rest of the residential development and the residents of the existing properties. The facade of the otherwise open parking garage will be closed off from the apartments for reasons of noise protection. All in all, the study of the noise levels showed that even at peak times, the limits set by the federal immission control ordinance were not exceeded, georg witt noted.
The subsequent discussion focused on the future of the old edeka building on flobanger, which will be vacant after the move to kanonenweg. "I cannot say anything about it. We are only tenants there, explained stephan kohler. The proposal to move the rottenbach to the area north of the railroad line had to be rejected by joachim trager. "There are too many lines there. This became a multi-million dollar project." Finally, in response to a question, the edeka regional manager announced that demolition of the old buildings on the brockardt site and development would probably begin in 2017.