Former retirement home with 2450m2 plot in central village location awaits new use

This retirement and nursing home is looking for a new purpose.

The former retirement and nursing home is a free-standing L-shaped building constructed in several phases. The original 1st construction phase along the road, built at the end of the 1940s / beginning of the 1950s, was used as an agricultural building until 1988. In 1988, an application for conversion, extension and change of use of the building into a retirement home with 11 places and 2 apartments was approved and carried out.
In 1990, an addendum to extend the home by converting one of the apartments and adding two garages to replace the garage that had been removed was approved and carried out. In 1994, a further addendum for the conversion and extension of the home and change of use of the roof space into living space was approved and carried out.

The house stands on a plot of approx. 2,450 m2, which is perfectly south-facing.

In the future, the building would certainly be suitable for use as a retirement home, shared care home or apartment building. The spacious, south-facing plot could also be developed further. It would probably also be highly lucrative to demolish the existing building and build two new apartment buildings with up to 16 residential units. The location and good connections, e.g. to Cologne, speak for the property.

Please note that the building requires extensive renovation. The roof, windows and electrics need to be replaced. This is already included in the reasonable price.

If you are interested in the property, I look forward to hearing from you and ask you to answer the following questions:
- Have you read the advertisement in full?
- Would you like to renovate the property or are you planning to demolish it and build a new one?
- Have you already completed such projects?
- Do you have your own tradesmen?

Please note that an architect or building surveyor must always be present for any viewings. Viewings in the evening or at weekends are not possible. The property is not suitable for self-build. The price is not negotiable.

Lindlar is a municipality in the west of the Oberbergisch district in North Rhine-Westphalia, around 30 kilometers east of Cologne. The municipality has around 22,000 inhabitants and stretches from Hohkeppel and Schmitzhöhe in the southwest to Hartegasse and Breun in the northeast. The main town of Lindlar has continued to expand over the last few decades. The area now extends from Falkenhof and Oberheiligenhoven in the west via Altenlinde and Schwarzenbach in the north, Pinnappel and Weyer in the east to Schümmerich and Altenrath in the south. Neighboring towns are Gummersbach, Wipperfürth and Overath, the neighboring municipalities are Engelskirchen, Marienheide and Kürten. Lindlar has a cultural center with over 800 seats, where theater and music events take place regularly.

The municipality describes itself as a tourist community and sees itself as a vacation and leisure resort. Flea markets, craft markets, farmers' markets in the Bergisches Freilichtmuseum and a Christmas market are held regularly.
and a Christmas market. The LVR open-air museum in Lindlar is not far from the town. Lindlar has six elementary school in various villages. Secondary schools include a Hauptschule, a Realschule, a Gymnasium and a special school for the learning disabled and E-pupils. The Hauptschule and Realschule are housed in a school center, not far from which is the Gymnasium, founded in 1997. The nearest vocational schools are located in Wipperfürth, Gummersbach or Bergisch Gladbach.
Lindlar is one of the few municipalities to have its own leisure park. It borders directly on the Heiligenhoven Castle Park and the Lindlar Cultural Center. The municipality has seven sports fields, a stadium with a grass pitch and one with artificial turf and a tartan track, which was thoroughly modernized in 2008, seven gymnasiums, including two large triple gyms and a gymnastics hall, as well as an archery range set up independently by the club above the sports field and four tennis courts.
Lindlar also has an indoor swimming pool with a large water slide, wellness area and sunbathing and sports lawn, riding arenas, a golf course, several shooting ranges and bowling alleys. Gliding can be practiced at the Lindlar airfield. Lindlar has around 200 km of marked circular hiking trails. Some of the roads have separate cycle paths. Cyclists mainly use the forest and agricultural paths.
Lindlar is connected to the highway network via the A4 federal highway (Cologne-Olpe).
The most convenient access is via the Engelskirchen or Overath-Untereschbach junctions. The nearest train station in operation is in Engelskirchen on the Oberbergische Bahn from Cologne to Lüdenscheid. There are three industrial areas in Lindlar: Klause, as well as Hommerich and Kaiserau.
The house for sale is located in the Remshagen district. It is located approx. 3.5 km east of the center of Lindlar. The quietly situated village (approx. 380 inhabitants) is mainly characterized by residential development with detached single houses. In neighboring Lindlar you will find all important services (doctors, banks, etc.) as well as shopping facilities. The nearest highway access (A4: Köln-Olpe) is approx. 4 km away and offers excellent transport connections. This means that the city of Cologne is still within an attractive catchment area with a distance of approx. 30-35 km or a journey time of approx. 30 minutes.
The nearest train station (Cologne-Lüdenscheid line) is in Lindlar-Engelskirchen (approx. 3 km to the south) and there are various bus connections in Remshagen to Lindlar, Engelskirchen (main station), Gummersbach and other neighboring towns.