With the laying of the foundation stone of "SONNENHÖHE" on Friday, August 2, 2019, another important milestone of the innovative residential project of Ganter Property Development for age-appropriate and barrier-free living in Breitnau was celebrated. A residential complex is to be built here by October 2020, combining the areas of nursing care, senior citizens and tourism. In the afternoon, representatives of the Ganter Group from Waldkirch together with the community, the local council, the St. Raphael senior citizens' centre, neighbours, buyers, tenants and participating construction companies filled a time capsule with the most important documents on the project in bright sunshine and placed it in the foundation stone. The tuba sounds and the singing of the Breitnauer cabaret artist Martin Wangler, who as Fidelius Waldvogel watched over the laying of the foundation stone, provided the appropriate Black Forest atmosphere. The buyers of the apartments received a symbolic green brick. As owner Michael Ganter reported, 20 of 21 apartments in assisted living have been sold. He also informed that at least 18 apartments had to be sold in order to be able to build at all. It was an unusual project - "for us and for the community," Ganter said. The general rental agreement for outpatient assisted living was also an important milestone. Michael Ganter informed that the owners of the nursing home would remain the same. A residential project of this kind is also new territory in its own home. "And it is the biggest investment we have ever made," added Ganter. He thanked the community and local council who "have always stood behind us with one voice". The realization of the senior citizens' housing project now makes it possible for people in need of care to continue living in Breitnau. In view of this, the mayor of Breitnau, Josef Haberstroh, also speaks to the Badische Zeitung of an "absolute stroke of luck for the community that such a project could be realized". Klaus Schweizer, head of the large-scale Breitnauer construction project of Ganter Property Development, admitted that he was initially sceptical when he saw the green meadow for the first time. "But I quickly realized that we were not in a place that was beginning to die out, but a place that was developing. In his speech, Marco Kuhn-Schönbeck, Managing Director of the St. Raphael Senior Citizens' Centre in Neustadt, stressed that it was not a matter of course for a community of this size to implement such a project. "Nobody wants to be old, above all nobody wants to be frail and nobody wants to go to a nursing home - but one sleeps more quietly when one knows that there are offers like this one. The St. Raphael senior citizens' centre in the "Sonnenhöhe" is just as much a tenant as the Birkenmeier physiotherapy practice. The ground floor of the "assisted living" residential area is already being built on the construction site at the bottom of the valley in Breitnau. However, the construction progress for the project will be clearly visible from 19 August, when the wooden elements are delivered and assembled. They will be manufactured in the immediate vicinity in the production halls of Holzbau Bruno Kaiser. Further information on this project and the various residential offers can be found on the Website www.sonnenhoehe-breitnau.de
