30/06/2025
Crucial for monuments and society - 40 years of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
It filled a gap when it was founded in 1985 and 40 years later it is much more than just a stopgap. Without the German Foundation for Monument Protection, numerous properties throughout Germany would still be in a pitiful state. However, there is much more to the foundation's work than promoting restoration and refurbishment. It may be a private organization. But true to its tradition of civic engagement, it also pursues its civil society mission - independently and with the perpetual potential for change.
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30/06/2025
50 years of the European Heritage Year - Here's to the next push for common sense!
Ulrike Wendland, Managing Director of the German National Committee for Monument Protection, looks back on 50 years of the European Year of Monument Protection in an interview with denkmalbrief. How did it come about in the first place? And what does the basis for the next 50 years of monument protection look like today?
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05/06/2025
Leipzig schools – particular Eastern modernity
Here follows part 2 of the series "Using the existing. Shaping Leipzig ". This time, the focus is on the building fabric that Eastern Modernism brought to the city. School buildings in particular still reveal the architecture typical of the GDR era - and the art of the time. Four Leipzig schools have been listed as historical monuments since last year.
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15/05/2025
From train station to educational campus
The following news article is part of our new series: “Using The Existing. Shaping Leipzig”. In this series, we present projects that show how new urban qualities can be created with historical substance. In the first part of our series, we look at a former railroad station site in the east of Leipzig. Students will soon be learning where trains once stopped: the site of the former Eilenburg railroad station is being transformed into a modern educational campus with new school buildings, a sports hall and a daycare center. At the heart of it all: a listed building that will continue to be used and reinterpreted.
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08/01/2025
denkmal meets... PaX
We raised three questions to Oliver Koch-Kinne, Head of Online Marketing at PaX AG, one of the exhibitors at denkmal 2024. Among other things, Koch-Kinne is responsible for the company's own portal fenster-im-baudenkmal.de. The specialist portal for windows in half-timbered houses, old buildings and monuments bundles the knowledge that building owners, architects and monument conservators need in practice. The idea was born 20 years ago and today the portal is a complete success with development potential.
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08/01/2025
denkmal presents... First aid for cultural heritage
From a global perspective, it is a novelty that was presented at denkmal in Leipzig. The German Association of Conservators (VDR) provided initial insights shortly before the completion of its Operational Manual for Cultural Property . Whether paint on canvas, photos, ceramics or plastic: the manual describes specific recovery and initial care measures in the event of damage. The entire manual was available online at the end of November 2024.
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