Modern headquarters for fire brigades and mountain rescuers

For more than 20 years, people in Ulrichsberg have been discussing the new construction of the fire station. “I was still in the youth group, at my first general assembly it was already an issue,” recalls commander Lukas Schauberger. Now he broke ground together with the local manager of the mountain rescue service, Reinhold Petz. A modern operations center for the fire brigade and mountain rescue service will be built in Ulrichsberg by next year. Around 3.5 million euros will be invested. Provincial Councilor Michaela Langer-Weninger, Mayor Wilfried Kellermann, deputy provincial governor Franz Hiesl, Jürgen Harich from Upper Austria Housing as general contractor, architect Peter Schneider and Georg Altendorfer from the construction company Resch also swung spades.

The operations center will be built directly on the Ulrichsberg bypass in the area of the “Hintenbergerkreuzung” on an area of 3500 square meters. The building will primarily have one storey, with the training and youth rooms located on the second level in the operations center area. In the new building there will be a vehicle garage for four parking spaces as well as the necessary changing rooms, sanitary facilities, the control room and the standby room. The new operations center will be completed with the premises for the mountain rescue center. For the mountain rescue service, an operational and crew room, a garage and the necessary storage and ancillary rooms are being built in the new building. The project is financed by the municipality of Ulrichsberg, the state of Upper Austria, the regional association of the district of Rohrbach and the volunteer fire brigade Ulrichsberg and the mountain rescue service.