Harthof

The Harthof estate, which gave the district its name, was built in 1890 by Munich's Löwenbräu director Wolf.

Therefore, on 2 May 1922 the Freie Interessenvereinigung Harthof (free association of interests), the union of the colonists, applied to the Feldmochinger municipal council to name the settlement Feldmoching-Harthof.

The city of Munich acquired the Harthof estate in 1927 as a land reserve and in 1929 leased it to the Menrad family, which is still resident today.

[6] The construction of some so-called Reichssiedlungen (state settlement) had already begun earlier - on the one hand simple apartment blocks with small courtyard gardens, mainly for employees of the Milbertshofen armament factories, and on the other hand small Reichssiedlungen of terraced and detached houses as a solution to the housing shortage in Munich.

[4] Until about 1957, the GWG Gemeinnützige Wohnstätten- und Siedlungsgesellschaft (non-profit housing association) continued to build blocks of council house flats on behalf of the municipality, mainly in the area east of Schleißheimer Straße, in order to accommodate refugees, Munich residents and newcomers who had lost their homes as a result of war.

As expert reports had already highlighted in 1979 that a large part of the block stock of the GWG (a total of around 2000 residential units in the district) could not be refurbished, the city council decided in 2004 to draw up a development plan which provides for the demolition and new construction of the council housing stock in the eastern Harthof.

[14] Due to the high stock of council housing there already had been an above-average proportion of socially disadvantaged groups at the Harthof straight from its construction, for which the district is also known.