"Ruggeberg, a counsellor, says the building work has been so loud that she has sometimes not been able to hear herself think. But trying as the past years have been, Ruggeberg fears it could be just the start. Porsche last month secured permission from Salzburg authorities for a plan to build an estimated 10m private access road from a municipal car park in the historic city centre through the rugged limestone hill."
"The 82-year-old's vision is that the 500-metre road will lead to a subterranean garage next to the villa where he will be able to park eight cars. Porsche has spoken of how he likes to take his cars on early morning spins on the sharp bends up of the Groglockner, Austria's highest mountain peak, about 120 miles (190km) to the south. His original idea had been for a personal lift to be built to take him up to his home."
Doris Ruggeberg's flat on the Kapuzinerberg has been disturbed for three years by noisy renovations to the neighbouring villa. Wolfgang Porsche bought the 17th-century Paschinger Schlossl in 2019 and has been renovating it before moving in with his partner. The villa was home to Stefan Zweig and was historically inaccessible to cars, reachable only by more than a hundred steps. Porsche secured permission to build an estimated 10m private access road of about 500 metres from a municipal car park through the rugged limestone hill to a subterranean garage next to the villa. The garage would house eight cars after an earlier proposal for a personal lift was rejected.
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