Overview
- The city says the Horbachtal redesign is again a high priority and has set aside €400,000 in the municipal budget for both 2026 and 2027 to fund the project.
- Officials say planning stalled after several staff left the responsible team and that the administration is now better staffed though it cannot give a construction start date.
- Field inspections and a recent site walk by the city found concrete problems that must be fixed first, including an overloaded sewer that causes flooding, heavily silted ponds and badly worn paths.
- Local CDU and SPD representatives will press the administration at the Bezirksvertretung 2 meeting and have proposed family-oriented ideas such as a nature path with a wooden marble run to boost visits and outdoor education.
- Delivery depends on clear assignment of responsibilities across departments, technical fixes such as separating stormwater from sewage and addressing mining-related seepage, and securing further funding and permits before work can begin.