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Second S-Bahn weekend maintenance closures

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

For the second - and last - time of the year, the S-Bahn Stammstrecke (main line) will be out of service due to repair and maintenance works.

The closure is starting on Friday, October 20th 2017 at 10:45pm and ending on Monday, October 23rd 2017 4.30am. The omitted S-Bahn trains between Pasing and Ostbahnhof will be replaced by buses, stopping at the usual S-Bahn stops with two exceptions: the stop at Marienplatz is shifted to Odeonsplatz and the stop at Stachus to Lenbachplatz. Signs saying...

Munich Top City for IT and Engineering

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Back in 2014, a study by the European Commission confirmed that Munich is the city that offers Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies the best location conditions in the EU - and the situation just keeps improving.

The study included three elements that specifically evaluated the ranking: research and development (closeness to a technical university and its ranking, research institutes on site), internationalisation (partnerships and co-operations from abroad) and networking...

Follow-Up on the Unterfoehring shooting

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

A 26-year-old female police officer was severely injured three months ago during a routine check at the Unterföhring S-Bahn station. The suspected 37-year-old perpetrator had shot her in the head with the gun of her colleague.

Still being in a waking coma, the state of the young woman is meanwhile stable enough to move her. She is to be treated near her parents' house in a specialist clinic from now on and was brought to Sachsen on a helicopter on Thursday, as the press office of the Munich...

Munich Students Win Hyperloop Contest

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and the aerospace company SpaceX, launched the "Hyperloop Pod Competition" in 2015. The Hyperloop is the concept of a high-speed train, which moves in a tube with a partial vacuum, nearing the speed of sound at 1.200km/h.

Student teams from all over the world have been invited to submit their concepts for the so called Pod - a passenger cabin capsule. 30 teams have been picked to create a prototype and compete against each other, one of them being the WARR Hyperloop...

Storm damage warning for Isar region

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Heavy storms from last Friday caused huge damage to regions in southern Germany, especially in the forests of eastern Bavaria.

The Bavarian Forestry Administration is in the process of estimating the amount of damage caused. Hikers and oudoor pursuit enthusiasts, including hobbyists such as mushroom-hunters are warned against entering storm-damaged forests; many trees might be critically compromised and may suddenly fall over without warning. Branches and broken stems can easily become loose and...

Men Also Have Trouble Juggling Work and Family

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

According to research published online in the Journal of Applied Psychology by the American Psychological Association, women and men report similar levels of work-family conflicts, both in the form of work interfering with family and family interfering with work.

The main motive of the study was to collect empirical evidence on whether and how gender affects the stress level caused by the effort of trying to combine work and family life.

Contrary to common public perception, the researchers...

Stolen Dachau KZ-gate Now on Display

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The historic main gate of the former concentration camp at Dachau was stolen in November 2014 and recovered at the end of 2016 in Norway. The perpetrators are still unknown.

Since last Thursday it is now part of the permanent exhibition of the Concentration Camp Memorial, and can be viewed in an alarm-protected display case. At the entrance of the former concentration camp, a true copy of the gate was erected in 2015 and shall not be replaced by the original out of fear it might be stolen again.

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Munich Jobs - a recruitment agency for engineers

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Munich has long been an attractive destination for major companies to open a German or European branch. Many large and SME-sized companies are headquatered in Munich and the surrounding region. Part of the reason for this is that Germany has a highly-skilled workforce, a strong infrastructure, is the geographical and political centre of the EU and impressively multicultural. Munich, being the capital of the second wealthiest German state (second only to North Rhine-Westphalia), is a natural...

Oktoberfest 2017 Updates Security

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Safety precautions for the Wiesn are being further expanded in 2017. For the first time police will patrol the festivities equipped with bodycams. This is intendend to prevent crimes as well as facilitating their investigations afterwards. Police staff will also use a new internal messenger service, enabling them to exchange mug shots and information much faster via smartphones.

Furthermore, some of the already existing video cameras are going to be replaced by cameras with a better resolution.

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Stammbach Crash leaves many dead

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

As many as eighteen people are reported missing after a coach crash on the A9 motorway near Stammbach. The tour bus was involved in a collision with a lorry which resulted in the vehicle catching fire. Around 30 people managed to escape the blaze and emergency services are on the scene. There were 46 passengers and two drivers on the bus, which was carrying tourists from Saxony. Police and firefighters are unsure of the exact cause of the collision which occured in slow-moving...

Municipal security guards for Munich

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Following a city council decision from 2016, the Kreisverwaltungsreferat (department of district administration) submitted a more detailed concept for a municipal security service.

From June 2018, up to 100 employees of the municipality might be sent into the field to patrol the area between central station, the old botanical gardens, Sendlinger Tor and Stachus. Their mission will be the enforcement of the alcohol ban (a nocturnal alcohol ban around the main station was introduced in January...

Unterföhring Shooting Update

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Police and the public prosecutor's office are still investigating the details of the Unterföhring incident. According to the current state of knowledge and US media reports, the man who seriously injured a policewoman by shooting her in the head last Tuesday, and injured two more persons, was well-known by the US police. He is said to have been involved in a custody lawsuit recently and got into trouble with US justice for the abuse of alcohol, theft and bodily harm. The 37-year-old was...

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