Battle for the spa gardens
“Idyllic Waldhof Park must be preserved”
While Südbahnhotel owner Christian Zeller is making big plans for his hotel (as reported in the "Krone"), locals and residents fear for the beloved Kurpark, which belongs to the hotel and is - still - open to the public. A petition has been launched to prevent the rededication.
The small park is already 130 years old. According to the Südbahnhotel's current conversion plans, it is to make way for two new park villas and a new guest house. The petition "Save the Waldhofpark" now aims to prevent this. "It is the last spa park here in Semmering," say the residents of the Waldhof, a building complex that used to belong to the Südbahnhotel. "Now everything around it is to be built on." They were all promised by the Zeller Group in 2022 that the park would be restored in accordance with its designation as a 'green space park'. "We don't want green space to be converted into building land and a lot of money to be made from it," they say.
The residents of the Waldhof are also worried that the planned underground parking garage could lead to landslides or damage to their homes. There are many other questions and fears from local residents and other hotel owners: "How are 500 to 700 cars a day supposed to drive to the hotel via the narrow elevated road? Why doesn't the Hotel Panhans reopen first?" And the most important question: "How is the multi-million euro project to be financed at all?" The spokespersons for the Waldhof residents emphasize: "We are not trying to stop the project, but the spa gardens must be preserved."
Link to the petition https://www.change.org/p/rettet-den-waldhofpark-am-semmering
Information and historical memories about the Waldhofpark and the Südbahnhotel am Semmering:
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,
die Kommentarfunktion steht Ihnen ab 6 Uhr wieder wie gewohnt zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
das krone.at-Team
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.