Good Aabach

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The Good Aabach is a farm on the banks of Lake Zug in the municipality of Risch in Switzerland . The new rustic Gut Aabach was built in 1929 on a hill formed by moraine lines. The builder was the Englishman Carl Langer . The estate is part of the BLN property no. 1309 «Lake Zug» landscape. It was planned to build a research and training center for the pharmaceutical company Novartis on the estate. However, the project was dropped.

history

In the Stone Age there were several pile dwelling settlements in the area of ​​today's estate , which are confirmed by several sites and finds. The Aabach area is rated as an “important site with great scientific potential”.

Up until the early 20th century, stately country houses with extensive parks were built along Lake Zug, such as Gut Freudenberg or the New Buonas Castle . The area south of Risch along the Aabach was founded in 1929 by Dr. Karl Langer erected. He had a villa built with ancillary buildings and a spacious park close to the landscape. The estate was owned by Carl Langer's heirs until 1950, when Ernst Göhner , a Swiss building contractor, took over and expanded the estate. The house was rebuilt in 1960 and 1968. Ernst Göhner lived here with his wife until his death in 1971, his wife until her death in 2001. After her death, the estate was sold to Eiola AG, a subsidiary of Novartis .

The good

The heart of the estate is a manor house. The baroque mansion with a mansard roof was built in 1929 according to plans by Karl Koller on the highest point of the property. A castle-like, axially symmetrical entrance front with a courtyard characterizes the front. Behind the building, in front of the library windows, there is a rose garden . A bathhouse and a staff house were built in 1931 in the spirit of the New Building . The property also includes a gardener's house, a boathouse, a farmhouse and a little pannier. The near-landscape park extends along the lake shore and consists of different landscape chambers and has a conceptually designed path system. In the peripheral areas and on the lakeshore, mainly native trees can be found, not native ones near the villa. A central park lawn on the lake-side slope of the moraine forms the center of the facility.

"Novartis Corporate Learning Center" project

Since the purchase of the property by Viola AG, the construction of the Novartis Corporate Learning Center , a research and training center on Gut Aabach, was planned until December 2013 . In 2009, plans for the construction of a research and training center for Novartis were finalized by Peter Zumthor and Günther Vogt .

The plan was to enlarge the parking area to the south adjoining property (Weiler Landhaus ) to 130,000 m², the demolition of the villa, the garden, the chauffeur's house and several agricultural buildings, the construction of twelve buildings (accommodation building, restaurant, wellness / fitness Area, training facilities and reception and service building) as well as the development of a coherent park landscape. To expand the park to the south, the access road to the hamlet of Böschenrot on the other side of the Aabach and belonging to the municipality of Meierskappel would have had to be relocated and the agricultural buildings in the hamlet of Landhus demolished.

After a thorough investigation requested by Novartis, the Monument Authority of the Canton of Zug had removed the villa from the inventory of protected monuments; the gardener's house is still a listed building. So far there is no instrument in Switzerland to record parks worthy of protection, but the park is regarded as worthy of protection. However, from the point of view of the planning committee for the research and further education center of Novartis, the garden is classified as not worthy of preservation due to the revocation of the monument protection of the villa.

After the plans were published in February 2010 and a public information event in April 2010, plans for the relocation of the access road were published. The zoning plan change and the development plan were examined in advance by the canton and the municipality from autumn 2010 to spring 2011 and approved by the authorities after Novartis had made some adjustments. A second information event took place in May 2011 and heralded the public plan application process of 30 days, the objections of which were processed until autumn 2011 and the details of the project were adjusted. After the municipal councils of Risch and Meierskappel confirmed the plans changed by Novartis and the additional requirements from the preliminary examination and the ENHK report, the zone change and the adoption of the development plan were approved in a ballot on November 28, 2011.

Opponents criticized the construction of 31,662 m³ of above-ground building mass in an area that was originally designated as an agricultural and lake shore protection zone, the zoning of the area as a "zone with special regulations", which historically did not belong to the Aabach estate, as well as the demolition instead Preservation of the historical buildings, for which so-called zones with special regulations were originally set up. Reference was made to the project of the Roche Forum (training center of Hoffmann-La Roche ) in the Buonas Castle Park , which is only a few kilometers north of the Aabach estate, and where no building was demolished and hardly any new buildings were erected.

In addition to the submission of complaints from several private individuals to the Zug and Lucerne government councils from 2012 to 2013, the Zug government council and construction director Heinz Tännler was requested to step down. While this procedure was being dealt with, the material procedure, which consists of zone changes, the issuing of the development plan and road relocation, was suspended. After the Zug government council rejected the complaint, the complainants went to the administrative court, which also rejected their complaint. In January 2013, the applicants submitted their complaints to the Federal Supreme Court . Only after the latter's decision will the material proceedings with zone change and road relocation be dealt with further by the Zug and Lucerne governments.

As a result of these events, Novartis anticipated a delay of several months to years for the project. The original plan was to start construction in 2014 and to open the center in 2015. In mid-December 2013, Novartis announced that it would be abandoning the entire project. Thereupon Daniel Vasella , the former CEO of Novartis, bought the estate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance: List of objects by area and canton. 1998.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Municipality of Risch: Gut Aabach. Report according to Art. 47 RPV. Risch municipality, Rotkreuz, September 20, 2011 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
  3. ↑ Richard Hediger: Risch - history of the community . Published by the Risch-Rotkreuz municipal council. Prestel, Rotkreuz 1986.
  4. ↑ a b c Josef Grünenfelder: The former bailiffs of the city of Zug. The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zug - New Edition Volume II, 108th Volume of the Complete Works. Bern 2006, pp. 427-428.
  5. ↑ a b c Now the federal court is busy. ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rigi-Anzeiger. January 31, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rigianzeiger.ch
  6. ↑ a b Gut Aabach: What it's about.
  7. ↑ a b New resistance to the Novartis project. In: Neue Zuger Zeitung. February 25, 2013 (PDF; 61 kB)
  8. ↑ Dieter Bachmann: Out for Vasella's pile dwelling settlement. In: Tages-Anzeiger . 17th December 2013.
  9. ↑ Vasella becomes landlord on Lake Zug. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung. March 22, 2014, archived from the original on March 22, 2014 ; accessed on July 1, 2019 (original website no longer available).

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