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The contractor’s advertisement had announced the apartments would probably be ready by the end of the year 2014.
As with any old building, more work has probably turned up, and moving in has been delayed.
The building’s addition on the left is going to be part of the new entrance hall.
Visit www.studio-aw.de and click on the images lodge 14 and lodge 16 to get an idea what it will look like once construction is finished.
Status update from 25 January 2015 at 4pm.
I took another walk around the Camp King area this afternoon. We live so close by (a five-minute walk), but yet so far away. It was a very humid and overcast afternoon .
Camp King’s ‘Mountain Lodge’, seen from south. Children still have plenty of room to play soccer on a humid summer afternoon. There was also some activity going on in front of the chapel further up. This could have been organized by the Waldorf Schule, which uses the chapel for its drama department activities throughout the school year. It looked like a school parents’ picnic (with beer benches). The Hessians’ last day of school is this coming Friday.
South side of the ‘Mountain Lodge’. Workers have been modifying its foundation, in preparation for the construction of several apartments.
A real estate advertisement attached to the western side of the building. More information about apartments, including 360° conceptions of interior spaces, may be found on http://www.mountainlodge-oberursel.com/index.html.
If you’re interested in buying an apartment, you’d better hurry. There are still two available. “Verkauft” means sold.
East view of the ‘Mountain Lodge’. A sign nearby indicates foreseeable occupancy at the end of 2014. We’ll see!
The advertisement sign indicated that the apartments would be ready for moving in by the end of this year. Being German myself, I know to add at least another six months to this kind of promise.
After having just toured the old Mountain Lodge for the special event Airlift Frankfurt – Berlin with special guest Col. Halvorsen (Ret.), I had the chance to take some photos showing the new plans for the future apartment building.
Mountain Lodge facing north
The southern side will get a terrace.
Facing the Eichwäldchenpark
The advertisement offers 10 luxurious apartments varying in size and style between 100 qm and 260 qm. Due to its unique location and many added amenities, the price per qm is euro 4.250.
There is the view, albeit through a rain splattered window, onto the neighborhood.
View from the 2nd floor of the Mountain Lodge, Oberursel
Parking will be available on the north side of the building. The investor has purchased the plot of land across from it and this will be turned into carports and a parking lot.
Yes, if I had the money, I would be interested in purchasing one of the apartments. They are supposed to be finished by the end of 2014.
In my last post from 18 June, I had reported about the difficulties in finding an investor to take on the Officers’ Club. All that has changed within the last two weeks – after 17 years of lying idle.
The Taunuszeitung, dated 30 June 2010, had the following article Luxus hinterm Fachwerk (extravagance behind the half-timber). The Oberurseler Woche, date 01 July 2010, also carried an article titled Im Offizierskasino entstehen Wohnungen (The Officers’ Club will change into apartments).
Over the years, several investors had been interested in the Officers’ Club, but none of their plans of turning it into any kind of business got approved. The residents of this Villenviertel (exclusive residential area) had enough say-so to put any type of business plans to rest.
This has come to an end with the current investor’s proposal for turning the building into privately owned apartments. To do that, the investor set up his own corporation, Mountain Lodge Grundstücks-GmbH, and bought the areal of 1200 qm (close to three acres) from the city of Oberursel.
The Officers’ Club (also called Mountain Lodge around here) has found a new purpose, and the previous hope of getting the basement to house the Camp King archives is lost. Manfred Kopp, the Camp King archivist, is still without a permanent home for the Camp King archives, but we will continue looking for an appropriate location.
My name is Maria Shipley. I live in Oberursel, Germany, with my husband, son and daughter. The … Read more
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