Virginia Depot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
View of the site (1979)

The Virginia Depot was a military warehouse last used by the German Armed Forces to the west of Schleißheimer Strasse in the Lerchenau district of Munich . Today it is a biotope with rare plant species.

history

In the years between 1936 and 1940, in addition to other buildings, seven high- rise warehouses with a total of around 133,000 m³ of enclosed space were built. They belonged to the Army Supply Main Office in Munich. In 1945 the area was taken over by the US Army . This set up the Virginia Area Storage Facility there, named after the US state of Virginia . In 1957, the US facility was closed and the name Virginia Depot was retained. During the subsequent use by the Bundeswehr, the Military Department Clothing Office VI and the Munich branch of the Military District Catering Office VI were located there. Heavy equipment from neighboring barracks was also loaded via the tracks of the armored loading station of the Bundeswehr at the Powder Tower. The Bundeswehr gave up the location in the mid-1990s. The buildings were demolished around 2011. Today only the loading ramp of the former railway connection to Munich's North Ring is visible on the site.

Biotope (2014)
Virginia biotope with breeding tower for kestrels, swifts and jackdaws

The former Virginia depot is located at the Powder Tower stop on bus route 178 . In the northeast corner of the area is now the Munich-Mitte branch of the technical relief organization . To the east of it is the area of ​​the former Kronprinz-Rupprecht barracks , which is connected to the former Virginia depot by a bridge over Schleißheimer Straße.

Biotope

Idas blue stain at the Virginia depot

Due to the inaccessibility of the area for decades, an undisturbed habitat for many plants and animals has been established here. The urban biotope covers around 20 hectares and is home to 350 different plant species (including around 70 on the Red List ), wild flowers such as mullein , horn clover , meadow button , rock carnation , toadflax , scabiosa knapweed , grass lilies , fringed gentian , field quail wheat (the only location in Munich ), Rattle pot , meadowsweet , bellflower and Turkish lily . It is also home to many species of butterflies and birds, some of which are endangered, as well as badlands and sand lizards . The LBV has been maintaining the biotope since 2003 and accompanied the ecologically compatible dismantling of the buildings on it.

According to a city council resolution of 2014, the biotope area is to be designated as a protected landscape component after the creation of compensation areas.

Web links

Commons : Biotope in the former Virginia depot  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project: "Area clearance former Virginia depot". mplan-eg.de, accessed on December 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Urban development measure Kronprinz-Rupprecht-Kaserne. City of Munich, Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations, accessed on April 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Virginia Depot. In: State Association for Bird Protection. lbv-muenchen.de, accessed on December 11, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Applications / inquiries from BA 24 (Feldmoching / Hasenbergl). Alliance 90 / The Greens . Local association Munich North, July 18, 2015, accessed on December 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ City council draft . muenchen-transparent.de, 2014, accessed on December 11, 2015 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 38.2 ″  E