This once fancy villa was the family seat of the operators of the accompanying company, where the local spring water was bottled. The company went bankrupt in 2001, and both the villa and the business premises became vacant. Vacant? Not entirely... The villa still contains a lot of furniture and personal belongings, and the business building looks as if only a thorough cleaning stands in the way of a restart...
There is quite a stir in the neigborhood regarding this villa, which is situated in a beautiful park with a pond. A property developer harbors plans to demolish the buildings and erect two apartment blocks in their place, much to the dismay of the local residents. They not only fear—rightly so, incidentally—that the residential project will have too severe a spatial impact on the surroundings, but they also have to watch with dismay as a beautiful village landscape is lost.
Three years after the first visit, I passed by this villa again by chance. Despite the plans to build apartments there, the villa was still standing. A good opportunity to take a look at how far the decay had progressed in the meantime... Inside the villa itself, the decay had advanced a bit further, but all in all, little had changed. The bottling plant, on the other hand, had been almost completely emptied.
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