WBG Nürnberg Beteiligungs GmbH is preparing the construction of a new retirement home by carrying out extensive earthworks in the St. Johannis district. The approximately 5,900 m² site is located in the immediate vicinity of the Pegnitzgrund and borders on Brückenstrasse and Großweidenmühlstrasse. The new nursing home and subsidised rental flats, some of which will be offered as senior flats, will be built. The care facility will be rented and operated by the city-owned company NürnbergStift.
The wbg Group is investing around EUR 51 million in this project. The Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care has now confirmed that a grant of around EUR 8.7 million will be awarded via the Bavarian State Office for Care from the "Pflege im sozialen Nahraum - PflegesoNahFöR" programme.
The grant is justified as follows:
The new facility makes a contribution to the most comprehensive, dementia-sensitive and needs-based provision of care places and to the creation of meeting places in different types of facilities and for different age groups. The project is therefore for the benefit of citizens and is provided in the interests of society as a whole, particularly against the backdrop of demographic change and changing family structures.
The project involves
- the creation of 25 short-term care places to relieve the burden on carers and relatives and to encourage people in need of care to remain in their own homes.
- 15 permanent day care places with a quiet room to relieve the burden on carers and relatives and to encourage people in need of care to remain in their own homes. Day care offers a needs-based care option with activities, help with care tasks and a change from everyday care.
- the creation of 97 long-term care places with access to the local social environment in order to adequately cover the demand for care places for people in need of care in the catchment area of the city of Nuremberg and to ensure holistic care and support for residents.
- Care places that take into account the latest findings on aspects of dementia sensitivity and for people with visual and hearing impairments.
"As the city of Nuremberg, we are really delighted about the funding from the Free State of Bavaria. It fulfils its responsibility to strengthen services of general interest and provide needs-based care for people in need of care in our city. The subsidy will make the rent more affordable and thus relieve some of the burden on the people in need of care who have to pay the enormously high costs themselves," explains Elisabeth Ries, Nuremberg Social Affairs Officer and first Director of NürnbergStift.
"In view of the high construction costs that we have to bear in the current phase, this generous grant is an important contribution to being able to offer our contractual partner NürnbergStift slightly better rental conditions," says a delighted Ralf Schekira, Managing Director of the wbg Group. "As far as we can, we will do everything we can to keep to the schedule and budget, which will be a challenge under the given circumstances," Schekira continues.
