Almost thirty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a German city is building a wall to separates its residents. Three times higher than the Berlin Wall, the Munich Wall is intended to separate local residents and a refugee hostel.
Despite the 100m span sound absorbing wall is a symbolises German reaction to the over 1million migrants who arrived in Germany over the last 18 months. Before being built, the Munich Wall faced over a year of legal arguments in a case brought by six local residents since the plans of the hostel emerged in 2014.
The legal action demanded a 4.5m barrier to block noise which was to be unclimbable and resistant to ball games. City authorities solved the issue by building the barrier to 4m high in the style found beside many autobahns to cancel noise, rocks bound within steel cages to be covered in vegetation. The asylum centre in city’s suburb of Neuperlach South accommodates 160 migrants.
