Planning for the burn-out clinic in Vitznau goes into the next round
The planning for a new health center in Gruebisbalm near Vitznau has been completely revised after concerns from the Federal Commission for Nature and Cultural Heritage. The main contributors to the project were the contracting period in Lucerne.
The plans for a burn-out clinic in the spa town of Gruebisbalm in the Vitznau municipality are entering the next round. A completely revised design plan that takes into account the concerns of the Federal Commission for Nature and Cultural Heritage ( ENHK ) can now be viewed at the municipality of Vitznau . It was implemented to a large extent by the time period planning AG and Roman Hutter architecture . Both are based in Lucerne. The Basel architects Miller & Maranta were also involved.
The clinic, located at an altitude of 900 meters, will offer space for 80 patients with exhaustion depression. The initiator of this major project is the Basel-based entrepreneur Paul Schaub. According to an article in the “Luzerner Zeitung”, around 120 million Swiss francs are estimated for its construction. The present local planning revision was accepted on February 13 by the Vitznau voters with a large majority. Accordingly, the clinic location is no longer in the spa and sports zone, but now in the tourism zone. The canton of Lucerne still has to approve this.
The ENHK had objected to the extension of the health center with its originally planned five larger buildings to the south-east as a “serious impairment” of the protection goals. Two of them are too close to the Rigiweg and the Rigi-Bahn. In the new planning, these merge into a single complex with six connected wings.
The future clinic will only be accessible via the Rigi railway, no parking spaces will be built. Paul Schaub assumes that construction will start in autumn at the latest, “and we expect the opening of operations in 2025”.