Munich completes 22 more school, nursery and sports building projects

Munich has completed 22 school, nursery and sports building projects in time for the start of the new school year. They are part of the city's education building drive, which is being carried out by the city's Building Department and its Department of Education and Sport. The programme invests in general and vocational schools, all-day care and early years education. The new sports facilities will serve schools and nurseries as well as grassroots sport and many local sports clubs.

Lord Mayor Dominik Krause said: "Building schools and nurseries means building for tomorrow. Munich's education building drive is a success story that we are continuing despite the difficult budget situation." City schools commissioner Florian Kraus said every child in Munich should have the same chance of educational success and participation.

One of the largest projects is the Thomas Wimmer municipal vocational school centre at Luisenstraße 9-11. Its listed 1950s buildings have been carefully refurbished and upgraded technically, structurally and for energy efficiency, and a new extension with an assembly hall has been added. The municipal vocational school for sheet metal work and environmental and utility engineering moved back in July, so all the vocational schools based there are now in the renovated complex. Head of the Building Department Dr Jeanne-Marie Ehbauer called the project "a showcase example of sustainable school building in existing structures".

The extension to the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium at Max-Reinhardt-Weg 27 is nearly finished. Its four learning houses are being occupied at the start of the school year, and the canteen is expected to open in November 2026. At the Adolf-Weber-Gymnasium in Kapschstraße 4, a connecting building provides four much-needed extra classrooms for G9 pupils from the 2026/27 school year. Refurbishment of the existing building will begin in 2027.

A new five-form-entry secondary school has opened at Franz-Mader-Straße 30. It will house the new state Realschule München IV, and the Rudolf-Diesel-Realschule will also be based there temporarily. This allows a series of refurbishments to begin in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district, including the Rudolf-Diesel-Realschule's main building, the primary schools at Dom-Pedro-Platz 2 and Hirschbergstraße 33, and the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium. A children's centre on the same site, with three crèche groups and two kindergarten groups, is expected to open by the end of the year. A new pavilion complex for the Im Gefilde special educational support centre has room for 12 and 15 classes in its two buildings. The support centre for intellectual development, previously housed at the Haager Straße primary school, is moving there for the 2026/27 school year.

In Hasenbergl, the new special educational support centre at Eduard-Spranger-Street 21-23 opens by the autumn half-term. For now it will be used temporarily by a primary school and cooperative all-day education, and its sports halls will be available after the 2026 autumn half-term. A new four-form-entry primary school with a sports hall opens at Gottfried-Böhm-Ring 2 for the 2026/27 school year. Its regional after-school centre and a second sports hall are expected to come into use in 2027, and its cooperative all-day education service began on 1 September 2026, bringing the number of such sites across the city to 39. In Neufreimann, the new five-form-entry primary school at Helmut-Kohl-Allee 53 is also complete and has been adapted for interim use by a newly founded support centre for intellectual development. Two learning-house clusters are being occupied at the start of the school year, and the remaining three forms are due to be fitted out in 2027.