![]() *All new vehicles offered by Porsche are type-approved according to WLTP. ![]() The ancient settlements in the region now have UNESCO World Heritage status. Beneath this sensational find, there lay the world’s second-oldest surviving wooden door, some 20,000 animal bones, and prehistoric tools such as ladles, bows, and flint axes. ![]() The vestiges of the settlements optimally preserved in the wet lake bed are part of a whole array of lake dwelling settlements in and around Zurich. The building work was immediately suspended for nine months and a team of up to 60 archaeologists worked around the clock to preserve the traces found there. The investigators soon determined that people had been living here where vehicles now find a temporary home in around 3234 BCE. What the archaeologists found there dated back to the Bronze Age, in other words approximately 5,000 years ago. When the excavators rolled in to dig the excavation pit for the parking garage, numerous artifacts of international significance were found. He leads us to the other end of the garage where you exit to the lake and announces: “Here’s the Archaeological Museum that’s part of the parking garage.” We now hear the full story of this extraordinary place. When he starts work in the morning, he is curious to see what the weather will be like above ground at lunchtime. Würfel the roofer now works below ground. And you obviously need a degree of happiness, too.” His job is crisis-proof and weatherproof. “I love to talk and am very communicative,” he says with a satisfied smile on his face. But I found a lot more.” Würfel met his wife, adopted her son, and eventually found his job at the parking garage. “I simply traveled down with my coworker Michael and looked for work. “I then emigrated when I was 32,” he says. ![]() But Würfel stayed and dreamt of a Porsche and a fulfilled future. He grew up in Frankfurt an der Oder in the former East Germany, not far from the Polish border. The qualified roofer has now been living in Switzerland for 20 years. Würfel makes his way around his stomping ground. In the parking garage, the latecomers are in a hurry. The gong will sound shortly and the nuns will march out in the opera house. And it doesn’t take long for us to see that he makes this delightful, bright, functional building a more friendly place. The 52-year-old has been working down here for six years. You could, of course, simply shrug your shoulders like Bettina Auge, the opera house’s press spokesperson: “The parking garage? You park your car and don’t hang around in the exhaust fumes.” But Würfel keeps a clear head here, too. ![]() Sports cars, sedans, and convertibles are trustingly placed in the car park attendant’s hands. It serves as a temporary safe haven under Sechseläutenplatz square for 288 vehicles. In a city which is world-famous for its bank vaults, the parking garage would appear to be a safe, too, and is under the round-the-clock surveillance of 66 cameras. The higher of the two parking decks is up to two and a half meters below the water level. What’s unusual here is that the opera house is located at the northern tip of Lake Zurich – with the underground parking garage being built directly in the body of water. It now lies underground out of sight, with only the striking entrance piquing people’s curiosity and effusing architectural finesse. It took 13 years for the Swiss city’s classiest parking garage to be planned and built. ![]()
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