Future visions for Lauchhammer: exhibition on the city transformation!

Future visions for Lauchhammer: exhibition on the city transformation!

Lauchhammer, Deutschland - What is in Lauchhammer? The city develops rapidly and always surprises with innovative ideas! This year, architecture students from the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg are actively contributing to the future urban design. As part of the “Transformation 2035” design module, they work on urban planning visions in the winter semester 2024/25 that take current challenges such as climate and structural change. The students took a close look at the city, analyzed reference objects and developed their own concepts. The result was presented at the end of February 2025 at an exciting presentation, which even attracted the attention of Mayor Mirko Buhr and the head of the business area for education, social affairs and citizen service, Manuela von Schroedel-Siemau. href = "https://www.wochenkurier.info/landkreis-oberspreewald-lausitz/artikel/zukunfts-fuer-lauchhammer-im-Fokus" Class = "Source_1"> Wochenkurier reports .

impressed by the concepts that deal with topics such as "green heart" and "shining center", the city representatives came up with the idea of ​​organizing a public exhibition. This will now take place as part of the anniversary "300 years of industrial culture in Lauchhammer". The opening is on June 26th at 4 p.m. in the Kulturhaus Lauchhammer, followed by a panel discussion, in which, among other things, representatives of the city and the students will talk about future perspectives from Lauchhammer.

a center for art and education

A real eye-catcher in Lauchhammer is the structural change project that the city wants to transform into an art casting city. Under the new title "Transformation 1,535 °- Kunstfuss-Stadt Lauchhammer"- based on the melting point of iron- an educational and experience center for art casting and industrial culture is to be created. This is not only a step into the future, but also a tribute to the traditional history of the city, which is characterized by the earlier terms "ore & coal", which, however, remain as location names. reports .

The planned measures includes an extension to the artificial cast museum with around 1,500 m². In addition, the Peace Memorial Church is to be converted into a multifunctional center. Visitors can look forward to a newly designed sparkling area that connects the fields of museum, church and art foundry. And it comes even better: even the construction of a multifunctional building is planned in Lauchhammer-West, which will act as a shop and exhibition hall. A former binding pool is to be converted into an underground climbing world. A really exciting project that cannot be found everywhere!

shape the future

The total cost of the entire project has risen from originally 15.5 million euros to 18.7 million euros, but project funding amounts to 95%. Mayor Buhr sees this project a real chance of urban development and strengthening tourism. In order to promote these plans, a special meeting of the city council on October 11 will be placed on voting for investment and grant financing.

The importance of such measures is also due to the current trends in urban development that can be observed in many European cities. These include dealing with the climate crisis, demographic change and digital transformation, whereby integrated urban development is sought. Such strategies and trends were summarized in a comprehensive study. worked out .

A look into the future shows that Lauchhammer actively reacts to changes and has a good knack for innovative ideas. So be excited to see how the city will develop in the coming years! The exhibition is a perfect opportunity to find out about the great plans and to get into conversation with the heads behind these concepts. Free admission - so nothing like there!