At the end of April 2018, we celebrated the start of construction of an unique building project on the Laurentiusberg Mountain in Tauberbischofsheim: Michael Ganter (CEO Ganter Group), Wolfgang Vockel (mayor of Tauberbischofsheim) and Felix Mathiowetz (CEO Ganter Construction & Interiors GmbH) have laid the foundation stone for the new GANTER TOWER: an office building with seven floors, which will be built directly in front of the gates of Tauberbischofsheim over the next few months. As a new landmark, lying over the beautiful Tauber Valley, the Ganter Tower is designed to symbolise a new era and a continuous development of the 42 hectare site of the former Kurmainz Barracks on the Laurentiusberg Mountain. Wolfgang Vockel speaks of "a visible sign pointing our way to the future". From 1963 to 2008 the site was both home and workplace for 1,600 German soldiers. Crew quarters, administration centres, canteens, vehicle halls and sports courts left their mark on the heights of the Laurentiusberg, until the barracks were closed in 2008 and the enormous area of the town of Tauberbischofsheim was handed over to civilian use. A team led by Michael Ganter was intensively involved in developing a proper concept for this new district. One result was the purchase of six buildings by the Ganter Group, two of which have already been extensively renovated and rented out as an office building. In numerous discussions with the city, Ganter also developed a concept whereby new forms of living and working might be implemented. The central idea in this is to integrate both the existing and newly emerging structures into the fantastic cultural landscape of the Tauber valley, with its vineyards, historic buildings and scenery. The idea that came about was of a “Ganter Campus”, with a central square, which connects all the buildings and thus becomes a meeting place for the people working there and for the inhabitants. The formative building on the square in the midst of the campus is the Ganter Tower, which deliberately takes the form of the historic castle towers on the mountains in the Tauber Valley. In this way, the tower symbolises a certain calmness, far-sightedness and openness. It is becoming a new home for the growing Ganter team in Tauberbischofsheim, the other floors are available for rent. We are very excited about the upcoming developments: The shell and the outer shell of the tower should be up by November 2018, at which point the interior construction can commence. If everything goes to plan, which here at Ganter we have good reason to assume will be the case, we can look forward to a house-warming party in 2019!
