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St. Goarshausen (dpa / lrs) - The controversial project of a 700-bed hotel on the world-famous Loreley rock plateau high above the Rhine has burst.
"That was a hard blow for us," said Sven Hollesen, CEO of the northern German Planet Group, which, together with the companies Nidag and Aye Media, wanted to invest around 85 million in the heart of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site.
The reason was a voting round by video conference on Thursday with local authorities on the subject of noise protection.
According to earlier information from the mayor of the Loreley community, Mike Weiland (SPD), the investors had not approved the hotel's noise protection for their own guests as specified in the development plan.
Among other things, it was about future open-air concerts on the Loreley stage.
The investors would have wanted to forego "structural noise protection measures" and simply want to leave rooms facing the stage empty at major events.
The Planet Group did not comment on details of the noise protection debate on Thursday.
According to its investors, the “Slow Down Loreley” hotel should blend in well with the sloping landscape with its green roofs - with a stepped five-story main building, ten two- to four-story “hotel villas” and one-story bungalows.
The Upper Middle Rhine Valley suffers from extreme railway noise, partly outdated tourism offers and population decline.
The Planet Group had announced 100 new jobs.
Critics considered the 700-bed hotel project in the World Heritage Valley to be oversized.
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