A Swiss Rock Will Become Europe's Safest Vault
- 27.07.2025, 8:22
Construction has begun on a unique storage facility for the super rich.
In the Swiss Alps, the construction of a unique vault for the super-rich - Brünig Mega Safe - will start. In the depths of the rock will appear underground caves for storing gold, antique cars, wine and art for half a million francs each.
About it writes SRF.
In the Brünig mountain range, near the town of Lungern in the Swiss canton of Obwalden, construction begins on the underground Brünig Mega Safe complex - a new-generation storage facility for luxury goods: antique cars, gold, artwork, wines and other valuables.
The initiator of the project is 68-year-old entrepreneur Thomas Gasser. He has already received a building permit and plans to start the first works in the fall.
Brünig Mega Safe AG has invested millions in the permitting procedures.
The construction is scheduled to be completed in 2027.
According to the project, a 200×300 meter tunnel system will be dug into the rock. The complex will be located in a stable rock - quintner limestone, which, according to Gasser, has a high level of safety and practically does not succumb to collapses.
Inside there will be high-security chambers with a constant temperature of +13°C, regardless of the time of year.
The cost of one 20-meter square cave will be about half a million Swiss francs. In total, 20 to 25 caves are planned.
None of the "safes" have been sold yet, as the company is carefully checking the origin of the funds. Inquiries have been received from Germany, Sweden, the UAE and Switzerland.
"We want to know clearly where the money is coming from. In the last two years we have had to reject two or three applications because it wasn't there," says Thomas Gasser.
By the way, the owners of the vaults will not be able to store drugs or explosives in them - only legal valuables.
"The requests have already been received. One person wants to store 20 cars in the mountain, another wants to store 100,000 bottles of wine. And there was even a request to store chemicals," says the initiator of the idea of a super-safe in the mountain.
If all goes according to plan, the Brünig massif will become one of the safest places in Europe to store wealth.