Marcel Portmann drives his white Skoda Kodiaq to the side of the road, takes out his cell phone and shows a photo montage: “It should be possible to build here this high.” They look massive, the five to six-story buildings, and on the district street, where the speed limit is now 30 and the children walk home from school shortly before lunch, traffic is jammed in the pictures. Portmann thinks that the idyll would be over in Hünenberg.
The community on Lake Zug with 9,000 inhabitants and a view of the Central Swiss Alps is located in one of the largest boom areas in the world Switzerland. On the one hand Zug, Baar and Cham with their global headquarters of Glencore and other large companies, on the other hand Rotkreuz, where Roche and Novartis are located and a new university campus has been built. The distance from Hünenberg is short, including to Zurich Airport and thus out into the world. The place has an S-Bahn station and motorway connection. Which is why Hünenberg, as it is called in technical jargon, should be condensed inwards. For example, on this meadow where Portmann’s car is now parked.