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For several years now, the Ein Englischer Garten Foundation has been calling for the reunification of Munich's English Garden. The aim is to tunnel under the park, which has been cut up by the Mittlerer Ring since the 1960s. The initiator of the project is the architect couple Petra Lejeune and Hermann Grub.

Now, after the Free State of Bavaria, the federal government has also promised funding and included the tunnel project in the 2017 National Urban Development Projects funding program. Berlin has agreed to contribute 2.67 million euros to the planning costs.

The ball is now back in the court of the City Council of the state capital of Munich, which is expected to deal with the urban development project again before the summer break in 2017.

The landscape garden, one of the largest parks in the world, is larger than the - perhaps even more famous - Central Park in New York. Commissioned by Carl Theodor on August 13, 1789, what was then Europe's first people's park still serves as a central place of recreation and retreat in the middle of the city for millions of locals and tourists alike every year.

The bdla Bavaria is an ideal supporter of the project "An English Garden".

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