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I came to Jena in 1991 to work on the first landscape plan for the city of Jena as an employee of Prof. Reinhard Grebe's office in Nuremberg.



In 1993, the office was founded with Holgar Ehrensberger.

From the very beginning, landscape/cultural landscape planning has been an important field of activity for our office.

Essential findings and thoughts are summarized in this publication, which I developed together with Dr. Mathias Lerm.



The Jena valley area, which was largely forested until the early Middle Ages and in part canyon-like, has since developed into a magnificent landscape mosaic due to the small-scale cultivation of the people, which reached its greatest diversity at the beginning of the 20th century.

This publication on the Jena landscape aims to contribute to a clearer recognition of our unique cultural landscape in its structure and diversity and to understand the necessary recommendations for use and action.

In the interplay of economy, ecology and landscape aesthetics, it aims to inspire the particularly formative areas of our unique landscape

to preserve and further develop them for our children and grandchildren.

The citizens of Jena can also contribute to the protection, maintenance and further development of our cultural landscape as part of their social commitment, by designing their own living environment in the settlement area or their gardens in the landscape area or by purchasing regional products.





Download Landscape, writings on urban development no. 14



https://planen-bauen.jena.de/sites/default/files/2020-01/Broschüre_Landschaftsbild_Jena_Web_140120-1.pdf







Office profile:



The spectrum of tasks of our office ranges from municipal landscape planning and open space planning to project studies and consulting activities for public and private clients.



We always develop our projects according to their specific landscape or urban context. Examples include the open spaces of Jena University Hospital, the Jena Beutenberg science campus, the open spaces of the Gera-Eisenach Cooperative State University in the former Tinz moated castle, the city balcony of the "Wasserachse green corridor" in Jena and the Jena-Göschwitz vocational school campus.

After the major new construction projects of the "post-reunification era", the (monumental) renovation of open spaces has come to the fore in recent years. Examples include the open spaces of the Carl Zeiss Planetarium in Jena, the Goethe/Schiller Archive in Weimar and Wettin Castle on the Saale (project start 1st BA 2013 until probably 2024).

We usually work in cooperation with urban planners, structural architects, civil engineers and / or artists.

Adherence to costs and deadlines are just as important as sustainability in terms of adaptable use, material quality, use of plants appropriate to the location, rainwater management and maintenance requirements.

The theme of cultural landscape runs like a common thread through our 20 years of office work. Examples include the Bad Langensalza urban landscape map, the Middle Saale Valley development concept and the Jena landscape publication.
We have been successfully participating in competitions for 25 years, e.g.:

2014 Wohnen am Dom in Erfurt 1st prize with worschech architects, Erfurt

2017 Library and community center Jena 1st prize with pbr architekten, Jena (under construction),

2019 New Saale crossing in Rudolstadt 1st prize with Prof. Michael Mann, Erfurt

and several times a year I take part as a specialist judge in prize juries.

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