Porsche Heir’s Plan to Build a Private Tunnel Has His Alpine Neighbors Fuming

For the 1920s literary celebrity Stefan Zweig, part of the charm of his »romantic and impractical« Salzburg home was that it sat on an Alpine foothill »inaccessible by car.«

For automotive tycoon Wolfgang Porsche, who bought the 17th-century villa for roughly $9 million in 2020, the lack of easy access is an engineering problem with an expensive solution: a roughly 1,600-foot private tunnel through the hill to a cavernous underground garage.