6 rooms apartment

At the outermost edge of the Küsnacht district of Heslibach, almost on the border to the nearby neighboring village of Erlenbach, our grandfather built a Lake Zurich house with a late classical touch by hand exactly 100 years ago. In this house, we are renting two stacked floors as a single residential unit to a couple or a family - children and pets are expressly welcome.

Originally, these were the two upper floors of a total of three individual apartments. However, these two have been used together for over 60 years and are furnished accordingly. The connection between the two floors is via the shared staircase. Unlike in a classic maisonette, this results in a clearly contoured "überune" (above ground floor) and "überobe" (above upper floor). In this somewhat nomadic existence, one is either "there" or "there". In return, the inconvenience of the non-private intermediate space simplifies family internal privacy.

The "überune" includes the educated-bourgeois double parlor from 1968 with 35 m2, which extends across the entire width of the house, as well as a combined entrance and dining room designed in 1997 with 22 m2. A kitchen with living area of 9 m2 and a wet room with WC/bath of 4 m2 (both also from 1997) complement this floor, which also features an 8 m2 south balcony with a richly decorated Art Nouveau iron railing on the south side. In the "überobe", even below the roofline, next to a combined entrance and living room of 20 m2, there are already two bedrooms of 14 and 6 m2, a dressing room of 7 m2 with washbasin, and a 4 m2 wet room with WC/shower. This reflects the unmistakable aesthetics of its renovation year 1974; the rest of the floor was renovated in 1992. The living rooms have parquet flooring, and the existing doors have wooden thresholds. The built-in bookshelf, over 5 m long, in the upper living room belongs to the previous resident and can be taken over.

In addition to the staircase, the cellar and attic are also shared. In the cellar, a private washing machine is available in the laundry room; the tumble dryer is shared. Furthermore, there is a bicycle garage, a workshop, and a private storage room here. Under the roof, laundry dries without any energy expenditure in 1 hour in summer and in 2 days in winter. Here, one can deposit the occasional rarely used item, and one can enjoy the almost unclouded lake view from Horgen to Kilchberg.

A garden extends around the house in a strip approximately 5 m wide on all four sides. As the only one in the wider neighborhood of the slightly sloping terrain, it is completely level. If interested in garden management, there is an opportunity to realize oneself on part of the area according to one's own taste – whether as a children's playground, vegetable garden, or for increased aesthetics.

The daily electricity requirement - including hot water preparation - is largely covered autarkically by PV systems and batteries. Swisscom fiber optics and GGA connection are available. Heating is ecologically sustainably ensured via the municipal district heating network with energy generation from lake water. Its fee, which depends on the gas price and the amount of energy consumed, is charged monthly at 50% as variable service charges.

Within a walking distance of 200 to 300 meters, there is a Migros (with Denner) and a Coop in Erlenbach, just across the municipal border. Specialty shops are rather to be found in the Küsnacht village center 2 km away, if one is not heading straight to Zurich anyway.

At least for kindergarten and lower primary school, the offspring attend the Heslibach school facility, which is within earshot of its small bell tower; the older children travel to the village or to Zurich.

The house is located directly on the Veloroute 66 Zürich – Rapperswil. To the platform of the Erlenbach station, with S-Bahn service every quarter hour between 06 and 22h, it is exactly 300 meters on foot. Towards the village center n