neuewelt

The company behind this listing isn't a moving firm, a courier, or anything transport-related at all. neuewelt is a Sozialwerk, a Christian-affiliated charity in the Basel region that runs supported housing and structured daytime programmes for adults with psychosocial and psychiatric conditions. Self-storage is one small commercial line it operates alongside that core mission, sitting on its site's menu next to a bistro, a rentable workspace, an art atelier and a pasta business. None of those other lines belong in a moving directory. The storage unit does, on its own merits, so that's the part worth reading closely here.

The self-storage product itself is straightforward and, unusually for this category, fully priced on the site rather than hidden behind a quote form. There are 3 unit sizes. The smallest, labelled S, is built for "einzelne Möbel" (a handful of individual pieces), runs 5 to 7 cubic metres, and starts at CHF 58 a month; the site says it fits about 20 boxes, a table and 2 chairs. The mid-size M, pitched as right for a 2-room flat, runs 11 to 19 cubic metres and starts at CHF 98 a month, with room for roughly 30 boxes plus a sofa, an armchair, a TV, a wardrobe, a bed, 4 chairs and a table. The largest, L, is sized for a 4-room flat, runs 22 to 28 cubic metres, and starts at CHF 225 a month, holding around 80 boxes along with 2 wardrobes, a bed, 6 chairs, a table and what the site describes as the contents of 2 children's rooms plus an office and a cellar. All figures are the site's own "ab" (starting from) prices, so an individual unit could run higher depending on exactly what's available when you ask.

The rental terms are published in enough detail to actually plan around, which is worth noting because most listings in this directory make you call first. The minimum rental period is 1 month. Paying 6 months in advance gets a 10% discount, and paying a full year in advance gets 15% off. Notice to end the contract is 2 weeks, given at any time, which is short by Swiss rental standards and a genuine point in the unit's favour if your storage need is short or unpredictable. Billing runs monthly, in advance, for the coming month. Access is by personal badge, activated once the first month's rent is paid, and the site states it's available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the storage area under continuous video surveillance. A contract's terms and conditions document, "AGB Storage neuewelt," is linked from the page for anyone who wants the fine print before signing; it wasn't opened for this write-up, so treat its contents as unverified beyond what's summarised on the page itself.

The unit sits at Hofackerstrasse 79, 4132 Muttenz, reachable by phone at 061 331 59 29 or by email at storage@neuewelt.ch. The site also offers a virtual walkthrough for anyone who wants to see the space before calling. The stated booking process is simple: get in touch to check current availability (the site notes the units are often well occupied, so it's worth asking ahead rather than showing up), pick a unit size and sign the rental agreement, then pay the first month and start using the badge. One detail worth passing on directly: renting here isn't purely a commercial transaction. The site frames it explicitly as supporting neuewelt's social programmes, so the monthly rent also functions, in part, as a contribution to the charity's work.

That charity has a specific, documented history rather than a vague "years in business" claim, and it's a more interesting one than the storage listing alone suggests. According to its own "Über uns" history page, the association (originally named "zem wäg") bought its first house at Bundesstrasse 11 in Basel in 1981, a 10-room building meant to give homeless young people a stable place to live. A second house followed on 2 March 1987, in the Münchenstein district known as "Neue Welt," this one focused on housing people with psychiatric conditions. That second address is where the organisation's current name comes from: the Münchenstein quarter's name became first the "wg neuewelt" residence and eventually the name of the whole association. Today the charity is run by a board (Vorstand) that sets strategy and a separate Geschäftsstelle, based in Muttenz, that handles day-to-day management, finance, quality and communication; both are named on the site down to individual board members' professional backgrounds (a pastor, an architect, a lawyer, a business economist among them), which is more governance transparency than most small commercial listings in this directory offer, self-storage operators included. The organisation states it holds ISO 9001 certification and SODK OST+ accreditation, both cited by name on the homepage.

A couple of things are worth being upfront about not knowing, rather than guessing at them to round out the picture. First, the homepage displays a set of "impact in numbers" counters (people supported, staff, locations, years of social responsibility), but they're animated widgets that render as the digit 0 in the page's own static markup before a script fills them in, so there's no total to responsibly repeat here; whatever the real figures are, they aren't published as plain copy this write-up can quote. Second, this is not a place to compare against a purpose-built self-storage chain on service breadth: there's no mention of insurance for stored goods, no climate control specification, and no stated total number of units available across the site, only the 3 named sizes and their price bands.

Who this suits is narrow and specific: someone in or near Muttenz who wants a fairly priced, fully badge-accessible storage unit with a short notice period and is comfortable that their landlord is a social-services charity rather than a storage specialist. It's not a moving company, doesn't claim to be one, and has nothing to say about transport, packing or removals. If you're here because you searched a moving directory, treat neuewelt strictly as a storage option to slot into your own move, priced and specified clearly enough to compare against the units in every other category the site lists.