The portal for a lively Walchwil
Das Portal für ein lebendiges Walchwil
The municipal administration offices will close at 4.00 pm on Thursday, 17 April 2025.
The municipal administration will be closed all day on Good Friday, 18 April 2025 and Easter Monday, 21 April 2025.
On Tuesday, 22 April 2025, we will be happy to be there for you again during the usual opening hours.
In the event of a death, please contact the Kenel funeral service in Arth directly, tel. 041 855 60 20.
Walchwil municipal administration
Local bus
From the timetable change there will only be three return services in the morning and five in the evening. The first morning service will be cancelled, but the first afternoon service will start half an hour earlier. Departure times will change by a few minutes. The timetable from all stops is below.
Route 605
We now serve the 'Lauihof' stop - with no change to the timetable.
S-Bahn Line 2
Timetable remains unchanged.
Walchwil local bus timetable
Valid from 15 December 2024 until 13 December 2025
Infrastructure/Security Department
The notary's office of the municipality of Baar has been providing various services for Walchwil for around three years. As of the new year, Baar will take over all local notarial tasks from Walchwil.
The municipal council of Walchwil has decided to have all notarial services handled by the Baar notary's office in future. The first tasks of the Walchwil notary's office have already been transferred to Baar since 1 January 2022. This collaboration has proved successful, which is why the municipality of Walchwil is now transferring all other notarial competences to Baar. Only notarisations of signatures and photocopies can continue to be made in the Walchwil municipal administration.
With this solution, the municipality of Walchwil is following the strategy of the Conference of Municipal Presidents of the Zug municipalities, which is focussing on increased notarial cooperation between the municipalities. This strategy aims to ensure a reliable service, particularly for smaller municipalities, in the event of staff shortages in the notary's office. By pooling these tasks, Walchwil can benefit from the experience and infrastructure of the larger municipality of Baar, which has already taken over notarial services for the municipality of Neuheim since August 2020.
The notary's office of the municipality of Baar is now responsible for notarisations in the area of property law. This includes
- Contracts for the transfer of ownership (e.g. purchase, gift, assignment, exchange, etc.)
- Establishment of condominium ownership
- Contracts for the creation of limited rights in rem (e.g. easements, mortgages)
- Contracts on memorable personal rights (e.g. pre-emption, purchase and repurchase rights)
The Baar notary's office is also authorised to carry out public notarisations in civil matters. This includes, for example, marriage and inheritance contracts, wills, advance care directives or company law transactions such as incorporations, amendments to articles of association, liquidations and others.
The notary's office of the municipality of Baar, which will also serve Walchwil in future, is located in the municipal administration building at Rathausstrasse 6 in Baar. The official opening hours of the municipal administration apply. In order to guarantee the services, please make an appointment. If possible, the notaries are also available for clients outside official opening hours. Meetings and notarisations can also be held at the Walchwil municipal building by prior arrangement.
Walchwil Municipal Council
The municipal council anticipates an income surplus of CHF 1ʹ229ʹ900 for 2024 and an unchanged tax rate of 53%.
The income statement for 2024 envisages expenses of CHF 25.44 million and income of CHF 26.67 million. This results in an income surplus of CHF 1.23 million. This budgeted surplus is based on an unchanged tax rate of 53%.
Compared to the 2023 budget, expenditure for the current budget is CHF 1.76 million higher. This is mainly due to higher salary costs resulting from the new cantonal personnel law for teachers. Other factors are cost-of-living increases, additional costs for contributions to the pension fund and slightly higher workloads in administration. Extraordinary and one-off expenses for centre planning, local planning, the "Integrated Communication" project and the school's IT migration will also result in additional expenditure.
In terms of revenue, the 2024 budget also foresees an increase of CHF 2.97 million compared to the previous year. This is because both the expected tax revenue and the expected revenue from property gains tax will increase.
Walchwil has costs under control
"We are pleased that the municipality of Walchwil continues to be well positioned and has its costs under control," says a pleased Stefan Hermann, president of the municipality. This year, the municipal council has intensively dealt with the future of the village. Wishes and suggestions from the population have also been taken on board. "Thanks to our prudent financial policy, we have our own funds to gradually realise these development steps," says Hermann.
In 2024, investments of CHF 2.18 million are planned. Of this, CHF 0.99 million will be spent on road renovations. A first stage for photovoltaic systems on communal properties is now included. The investment account includes CHF 150,000 for the school's IT migration. CHF 220,000 are budgeted for the centre planning. CHF 200,000 is budgeted for the redesign of the square in the Oberdorf area. CHF 165,000 is budgeted for a new municipal vehicle.
Walchwil Municipal Council
The municipal council is working on the municipal strategy 2040 until the end of 2023. To this end, it has also conducted a workshop together with residents under the name "1st Walchwil Café".
In order to validate the results of the project to date, the municipal council would like to invite you to participate in a population survey. Please share your opinions, assessments and needs regarding the development of the community and help us to shape Walchwil. The survey includes topics such as values, positioning, image, qualities, global challenges, growth, priority topics and sustainability.
You have the opportunity to participate in the survey in writing or digitally. The survey will run until Sunday, May 28, 2023. You can obtain the written questionnaire at the municipal administration counter. You can also find the online version of the survey under the link https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/walchwil2040.
Your input is very valuable for the municipal council and will flow into the Municipal Strategy 2040. Take an active part in shaping the future of Walchwil and support us in equipping Walchwil for the future. The municipal council would like to thank you for your input and commitment.
On 1 January 2023, the debt collection offices of Zug and Walchwil will be merged into one debt collection district, which will be known as the "Zug debt collection district". The decisive factors for this were, among other things, the increasing complexity of the cases and the increasing difficulty of being able to staff such a demanding office part-time with a qualified specialist. The debt collection office is part of the cantonal administration of justice, which is carried out by the communes.
According to the Introductory Law to the Federal Law on Debt Collection and Bankruptcy of the Canton of Zug, several municipalities can form a joint debt collection district with the approval of the High Court. Following Susanne Schnyder's application for early retirement at the end of December 2022, the municipal council advertised the position for open applications. Several applications were received in response to the advertisement, but these did not lead to the desired result. In October 2022, the Zug City Council and the Walchwil Municipal Council signed an agreement on the modalities for a merger of the debt collection offices and submitted it to the High Court of the Canton of Zug for approval. Within the debt collection district, a joint debt collection office will be run in Zug from 1 January 2023. The merger is not new territory for the city of Zug. Since 2017, the Zug debt collection office and the Steinhausen debt collection office have formed a single office.
Walchwil municipal council
In connection with the subscription to the shares of the cable car Kräbel - Rigi Scheidegg AG, the municipality of Walchwil is entitled to five non-personal annual season tickets for the population of Walchwil. One annual season ticket (= 365 day tickets) will be issued to groups (10 persons or more) and four annual season tickets (= 4 x 365 day tickets) will be issued to individuals from 23 December 2017.
The day tickets can be used for any number of free journeys on all railway networks of Luftseilbahn Kräbel - Rigi Scheidegg AG and Risi Bahnen AG.
Entitlement to purchase
Only residents of Walchwil are entitled to purchase day tickets.
Reservation
Reservations are accepted at the earliest three months before the date of travel. They can be made by telephone (+41 (0)41 759 80 10) or at the ticket office. The first name, surname and date of birth of all passengers must be given when making a reservation. Reserved tickets must be collected from the ticket office within one week.
Purchase
Day tickets can be obtained at the earliest 90 days before the date of travel at the counter of the Residents' Registration Office Walchwil, Dorfstrasse 23. The tickets will not be sent by post.
Prevention/cancellation
Day tickets cannot be exchanged or the processing fee refunded. Day tickets that are not collected will be invoiced.
Price
A handling fee of CHF 10.00 is charged per day ticket. The amount is to be paid when the ticket is obtained.
The municipality of Walchwil is outsourcing part of its notarial services to the municipality of Baar. The cooperation will begin on 1 January 2022.
Notary's offices perform important functions in the municipalities of the inhabitants: They are responsible for all public certifications in civil matters (real estate law, matrimonial property and inheritance law, company law, etc.). Smaller municipalities in particular are not always able to guarantee notarial services if the person in charge is unavailable. The presidents of the municipalities in the canton of Zug have therefore suggested network solutions: municipalities should cooperate in the area of notarial services, use synergies and optimise the public service.
The municipalities of Walchwil and Baar have therefore drawn up and finalised the modalities of such cooperation in an agreement. Within the framework of this agreement, the notary's office of the municipality of Baar will carry out some of the work for the notary's office of the municipality of Walchwil from 1 January 2022. The four notaries of the Baar residents' municipality will thus relieve the Walchwil notary and municipal clerk René Arnold. The latter handles the triage of business cases and instructs the notary's office of the municipality of Baar. Cases assigned to the Baar notary's office are executed from the Baar location. The clients of the Walchwil notary's office are informed accordingly. Notarisations will continue to be carried out by the municipal office in Walchwil. The cooperation with Walchwil is not new territory for Baar. Baar has already been handling the notary's office of the Neuheim residents' municipality since 1 August 2020.
The notary's office of the Baar residents' municipality is located in the municipal administration at Rathausstrasse 6 in Baar. The official opening hours apply. In order to guarantee the services, it is requested that an appointment be made. If possible, the notaries are also available for clients outside the official opening hours.
The agreement approved by the Cantonal Department of Home Affairs is initially valid for a period of two years. After this period, the agreement will be evaluated and a decision made on how to proceed.
Municipal Council Walchwil, Municipal Council Baar
