A few months ago, the area next to the old Plieninger church was still a thing of the past: archaeologists spent weeks digging up remains from the Roman, Celtic and medieval times from the ground on Geltinger Straße. Now look ahead. Last Friday, the project manager of the municipality Michael Schechner, architect Regina Gaigl, mayor Roland Frick and managing director Gabriele Jung broke ground on the municipality’s own property for the long-awaited Plieningen senior citizens’ residential complex.
It combines everything that citizens, municipal councils and mayors have put together as wishful thinking. Not only seniors will live here, in single apartments or shared flats, the complex will also include affordable apartments for community employees, nursing staff and young families, for example, as well as a café, common rooms, two shops on the ground floor and a practice on the top floor. The construction costs are estimated at 14.7 million euros, the municipality hopes for a state subsidy of 40 to 50 percent. The facility is scheduled for completion at the end of 2024/beginning of 2025.