Helmstedt celebrates the award ceremony: Green future for lignite areas!

Helmstedt celebrates the award ceremony: Green future for lignite areas!

Helmstedt, Deutschland - On June 13, 2025, an important step was celebrated in the Helmstedter Revier in the direction of a sustainable future. The prices were awarded as part of the ideas competition "Transformation - from lignite area to the green energy landscape". The winner of the competition is the team of "Glück Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH" and "Laboratory for Urban Places and Processes" from Stuttgart, which convinced with his design for a landscape park. Numerous guests, including Minister Miriam Staudte, were on site to appreciate the creative approaches to renaturation and structural reorganization of the region. Staudte emphasized the opportunities for the region and emphasized the importance of such events. The competition aims to make the Helmstedter Revier, which includes around 4,500 hectares, economically sustainable, especially according to the challenges of lignite mining [regalheute.de] (https://regionalheute.de/helmstedt/helmstedter-revier-plaene-fuer-Transformation-aus desired-helmstedt-1749842638/).

The event not only attracted an expert audience, but also representatives of various interest groups. Anna Weyde, the first association councilor, emphasized the importance of the holism of the designs, while Henning Konrad Otto, Managing Director of the Association, spoke about the integration of historical roots and the connection of energy management, local recreation and nature. This is particularly relevant when you consider how much brown coal breakdown not only contained the landscape, but also the soils of the region, as in Lusatia, where the soils are severely impaired Spiegel.de.

a competition with importance

A total of twelve planning offices took part in the competition. In addition to the main winner, two further work also received recognition from the jury, which indicates the diversity and quality of the submitted concepts. The public discourse, which is funded by such competitions, is particularly worth mentioning. The plans will be exhibited in the architectural pavilion at the Technical University of Braunschweig in autumn, and other exhibition locations are already being planned. This not only creates awareness of the challenges, but also shows ways of how to master them creatively and sustainably.

Another interesting aspect is the connection to the carp ponds in the area, which are not only ecologically valuable, but also offer relaxation areas. You can read details about this (here] (https://helmstedt360.de/infoseiten/karpfenteiche/). These waters must be included in the planning in order to preserve the natural beauty of the region and at the same time create opportunities for leisure activities.

The recent initiatives make it clear that a lot is happening in Helmstedt. The focus on sustainability and renaturation could help the region to reinvent themselves and to convert to the "green energy landscape", which is known far beyond the borders. The Helmstedter Revier becomes not only a place in the history of coal mining, but also a symbol of innovative approaches in a changing world.