This is how the new sheet should look
This is how the new sheet should look – community presents plans
At the original assembly, Mayor Matthias Bellwald presents plans and timetable for the reconstruction. The fact that so many details will be announced two weeks after the devastating landslide.
What if a village is no longer? On Thursday evening, the leaves gathered in the Wiler gymnasium. The blue-white municipal coat of arms hangs on the rung wall.
Dozens of handwritten cards at the window. Hundreds of them have been received by the municipal office in the past two weeks. From Valais, from Switzerland, from abroad. Someone sent hand -knitted socks. « Switzerland believes in us, » said Mayor Matthias Bellwald.
The many handwritten cards and texts with good wishes for the spilled village.
Settlement phase from 2027?
The plans for the reconstruction have concretized. The architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron visualized them. The roadmap is. Until spring 2026, the hamlets are said to be connected to the electricity, water and sewage network again.
It is the beginning of the so -called pioneering phase. This also includes that the village center exposed by blatts and the pent -up lake in the Lonza is emptied. To do this, the planning responsible for the planning wants to pour up dams and bring the watercourses of the Lonza and side waters into an orderly drain.
The settlement phase should then begin from 2027. Existing buildings are also to be used in the hamlets that were spared by the primeval forces. Matthias Bellwald says: «I am not a utopist. I have a vision that is feasible. It’s a lot of work, that’s for sure. »
The first people could live in blats again in 2030
At the same time, the work on the Kantonsstrasse should also run so that Blatten and his hamlets can be reached as soon as possible. The planning horizon presented by Bellwald also stipulates that new buildings are being built in the village center of Blatten from 2028. This includes stables, but also hotels. As early as 2030, the first people in the village center of Blatten should be able to settle. After that, an expansion phase is carried out according to the plans, in which new buildings can also be created.
The roadmap on the future of Blatten vs.
The information part ended with standing ovation. It was only around a dozen PowerPoint slides that Bellwald performed on Thursday evening in the full gymnasium on Thursday evening. And yet they brought something that cannot be bought with any donation money in the world: hope.
