Hospital-Areal Rohrbach is a residential redevelopment on a roughly ten-hectare former military site in Rohrbach, a district of Heidelberg, Germany.21 The project is converting the previously inaccessible site into a neighbourhood planned for about 600 homes, delivered by public and private developers in different housing forms and price ranges.1
The municipal housing company, Gesellschaft für Grund- und Hausbesitz mbH Heidelberg (GGH), is the project’s key developer and infrastructure provider: it prepared the site for construction, established the overall neighbourhood concept and design guidelines, and is building its own homes.1 The city source does not give a founding date for the project; it reports that site-development works began in 2020.2
GGH completed the first 191 rental homes at the end of 2025, and the first residents began moving in in early 2026.1 Those homes are arranged across 19 buildings around two landscaped courtyards. Of the 191, 120 were built as publicly subsidised housing under Baden-Württemberg’s programme, with approximately 71 in a price-reduced category.2 GGH’s wider plans include around 250 homes of its own, a neighbourhood parking garage and a further approximately 60 subsidised homes with commercial space on the southern site.21
The project’s housing-target framework is intended to support a mix of residents with lower and middle incomes. For 40 percent of the planned homes, warm rent is capped at 30 percent of a household’s available income; this is supported by state housing funds and additional income-based subsidies financed by developers.1 The neighbourhood plan also incorporates mobility and energy planning alongside urban-design and social objectives.1