© Frank Schroth
Another side of Munich: Thanks to a public initiative, an apartment building in the Glockenbach district was saved from demolition and now offers the city’s highest sports pitch, six flights up. Since summer 2020, Munich residents and refugees have been playing ball on the roof of Bellevue di Monaco – a social cooperative that was granted a ground lease by the city of Munich to rejuvenate an empty ensemble consisting of a fifties-era apartment building and two adjacent 19th-century buildings.