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New life for Deilinger Altenbau: Five apartments are moving in!
New living space is being created in Deilingen: an empty building is being revitalized to create urgently needed apartments.
New life for Deilinger Altenbau: Five apartments are moving in!
There is exciting news in the community of Deilingen: A building at Hauptstrasse 38 that has been vacant for years is to be given new life. The local council has decided not to allow this long-dormant location to continue to deteriorate. On the contrary, the plan is to purchase the property in order to create urgently needed living space. According to Schwäbische, the building has been empty for a long time and was built in 1955 to produce cigars for the Burger company. It later became the property of the Wäschle family, who ran a textile production there.
The ground floor was most recently used as a restaurant, while the first floor has remained unused for decades. In order to finally change the condition of the building, the local council made the decision to buy it from the Wäschle community of heirs for 362,000 euros. This commitment not only has to do with the nice idea of optimizing the townscape, but also with the need to avoid negative influences from unused buildings in the community.
A new home for Deilingen
After the purchase is completed, the building will be extensively gutted and cleared of contaminated sites. It will then be sold on to ZAX KG, which has already presented plans for future use to the local council. A total of five apartments and six apartments are planned, which will meet the demand for living space in rural areas.
An 88 square meter caretaker's apartment is planned on the ground floor. The first floor will offer three apartments measuring approximately 42, 66 and 135 square meters. The largest apartment can even be used as a senior living community. Two additional apartments with 42 square meters each and six apartments with 20 square meters are planned on the second floor. If all of this works, the project could not only increase the supply of housing, but also help secure the location of the Volz Group, which is urgently looking for housing for its employees.
Look beyond borders
Why is this so important? Deilingen is not the only one concerned with the problem of empty rooms. The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has joined forces as part of the “Affordable Housing Alliance” with the aim of developing strategies to activate such empty buildings. According to BMEL, the building sector is under pressure. A lack of living space, rising loan interest rates and material shortages are just some of the challenges that need to be overcome.
One would also like to build on initiatives for internal development and combating vacancies in Deilingen. The transfer of knowledge between municipalities and companies could be crucial here in order to identify obstacles and find creative solutions. The strategy pursued here follows the maxim that every community should use its strengths to meaningfully reactivate vacant properties.
At a time when living space is in greater demand than ever before, the Deilingen project could be the first step in the right direction. Citizens can look forward to seeing how the historic building in the heart of the community will develop in the near future.