Landslide-hit Swiss village to be rebuilt within five years

The Swiss village of Blatten, which was decimated by a landslide, is to be rebuilt in three to five years, the municipal authorities have pledged. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At a general meeting of the municipality of Blatten on Thursday evening, the authorities presented the provisional timetable for the reconstruction. In the gymnasium in Wiler, president Matthias Bellwald said there are two hamlets that could be developed into the new Blatten. In the hamlets of Eisten and Weissenried as well as the village centre of Blatten, the village is to be rebuilt in the next phase. + Blatten: what price for preserving mountain life? There will also be a road, village square and church. For young people, this will then be the old Blatten, said Bellwald. According to reports by Swiss pöublic broadcaster SRF, the new Blatten should be ready in three to five years. The hazard map is currently intact and the project was developed on this basis, Bellwald told ...