More space in old age: retirement home is being expanded and renovated

Created: 11/29/2022, 10:19 am

By: Bert Brosch

The vision: This is what the new building of the Collegium senior citizens' and care center should look like.

The new buildings (yellow) adjoin the existing buildings on the corner of Heimstettner Strasse and Rätestrasse.

The access to the underground car park is from the west via the Hausner Holzweg, which has little traffic.

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The new construction and renovation concept for the "Collegium 2000" nursing home in Kirchheim was presented.

The establishment gets more and larger rooms.

Kirchheim – As soon as the State Horticultural Show ends in October 2024, the excavators should start rolling at the “Collegium 2000” senior center.

The new building for care and assisted living will take two years, from the end of 2026 the current building will be fundamentally renovated.

The renovation goal is more and larger rooms and apartments.

In total there will be 93 nursing places and 93 assisted living apartments in the "Collegium".

Architect Markus Donhauser explained the plans to the municipal council: A new building is planned on the current meadow between the Collegium and the new grammar school.

It consists of two buildings that are connected underground.

One for assisted living, the other for nursing.

In the old building, the kitchen is to be moved from the basement to the new building, where a warehouse will be built.

Today's day care becomes the central administration, the office of the hospice association moves into the new building for assisted living.

The laundry is being given up, there is no use for these rooms yet.

On the ground floor, four rooms are combined into two single rooms, and the bathrooms are enlarged.

"Instead of the previous 19, there will be 15 residents," said Donhauser.

A quarter of all rooms are fully wheelchair accessible

There are only larger single rooms on the two upper floors, instead of 44, 34 residents are accommodated.

There are also fewer residents in the current care area, with the number dropping from 49 to 35. In the future, a quarter of all rooms will also have to be fully wheelchair accessible.

These are missing so far and will be built in the new building.

The family center and occupational therapy will remain in place.

Living areas for 22 residents each are being built on the first and second floors of the new nursing home.

A large day care for 40 users is being built on the ground floor, as well as a second “Café Mohnblume” with a prayer room.

The new kitchen with 280 square meters and a cellar in which storage, changing rooms and technology are housed are located in the basement.

Both new houses will be connected underground to the existing house.

As of January 2028, there are 93 care places and 93 assisted living apartments

In the new building for assisted living, a large area for the seniors' meeting place, an open lunch table and a counseling area for the hospice association, care counseling or social center is being created on the ground floor.

According to architect Donhauser, 63 apartments will be built on the two upper floors, including 52 two-room apartments with 55 to 60 square meters and eleven three-room apartments with 80 to 104 square meters.

The new buildings will be erected between 2024 and 2026, and the residents of the current houses will move into them.

"By the end of 2027 we will rebuild the old houses, from January 2028 there will be 93 nursing places and 93 assisted living apartments," promised architect Donhauser.

Criticism of underground parking

Wolfgang Heinz-Fischer (VFW) finds the overall planning good, "but only 44 parking spaces for 93 serviced apartments plus staff, I think that's far too little".

Since people only move into assisted living at the age of 77 and into inpatient care at the age of 88, the car is "not that important anymore," Donhauser replied.

Christian Zenner (Greens) criticized the access to the new underground car park from the west through the traffic-calmed area of ​​Hausner Holzweg and Veilchenweg.

"For me, the underground car park under the new care area and the access from Heimstettener Straße would make much more sense." Social officer Raphael Tränkle explained that this topic had been discussed at length: "Unfortunately, we see no other option for the underground car park and its access. "

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Against the votes of the Greens and Marcel Proffert (VFW), the municipal council decided on the plans.

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