In Gottenheim, the money is to benefit a residential group with outpatient care for elderly people who need support.
The major project “Social Center” in Gottenheim has now received an important boost. The state of Baden-Württemberg has promised financial support of 610,000 euros. This subsidy applies to an important part of the overall project: a residential group with outpatient care for older people who need support.
This was decided by an expert committee set up by the Ministry of Social Affairs, which advised on applications for the “Living supported and cared for together” funding program. Social Affairs Minister Manne Luche announced the decision immediately after the meeting of the committee.
The planned residential group is part of the concept that the Bauverein Breisgau wants to implement within the “Social Center”. There are twelve nursing homes. The funds are intended to benefit the future residents of the residential group in the form of reduced rents. Bauverein board member Jörg Straub brought the news from Stuttgart with the funding commitment in the form of a large check poster to Mayor Christian Riesterer. The Social Center project covers the long stretch of land between Bahnhofstrasse and the S-Bahn tracks, as well as the site of the former Catholic kindergarten on Kaiserstuhlstrasse. In addition to the residential group, 57 cooperative residential units are planned, spread over five buildings, as well as a day care center for children under the age of three. In addition to the Bauverein Breisgau, the parish benefice foundation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg is also involved as a project partner.
The cross-generational and cooperative overall concept was decided in 2021 after a multi-year civic participation process. As a member of the Bauverein Foundation, Eichstetten’s former mayor, Gerhard Kiechle, was involved in developing the concept. Gerhard Kiechle had already started in the 1990s to develop concepts for the care of seniors in Eichstetten through the active participation of the citizenry.
There is a community of citizens organized as an association, which initially started with assisted living in the Schwanenhof and with neighborhood help, followed by the nursing home group Adlergarten. In the meantime, other areas are part of the range of services offered by the community, including day care, core-time care and participation in the integrative day café Mitnander.
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