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Exemplary modernisation of a world heritage site

After works lasting approximately two and a half years, we completed our exemplary modernisation at Peterholzstrasse 48 – part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – in 2023. Works included installaling a lift, interior wall insulation and a geothermal heating system.

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Lift for the arcade house

Peterholzstrasse 48 has been undergoing modernisation works since July 2021. The aim was to create a link between a historic building with cultural aspirations and a lively, future-proof dwelling. To do so, we had to overcome a number of challenges.

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World Heritage truck visits the arcade houses!

The state of Saxony-Anhalt is promoting the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES under the title "6 Amazing Places" to raise their profile even further. Shortly after the start of the campaign, the UNESCO advertising truck stopped not only at the Bauhaus, but also at our arcade houses!

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Lights and music in the arcades

The Wohnungsgenossenschaft Dessau eG housing co-operative hosted an atmospheric concert on 21 September 2019 at the Peterholzstraße 40 arcade house. The concert was held to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus buildings. Construction began on the arcade houses in 1929, and since 2017 they have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The event was also intended as a thank you to the members of the cooperative who, as residents of the houses, not only tolerate the significant increase in visitor interest, but always meet visitors with a smile, answer their questions and even open their own doors to the most curious. The two-part evening was presented by the duo Stock/Wettin with “bauhaus polyphon” and Dessau singer Heike Huth with excerpts from her programme “Walter Gropius meets Marlene Dietrich”.

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Cash injection for arcade houses

SED assets
State Chancellery wants to upgrade Bauhaus buildings

Source: https://www.mz-web.de/29589590

Autumn festival for the World Heritage title

Arcade houses to be carefully modernised

Source: http://www.mz-web.de/28611538 ©2017

Peterholzstraße banner

In the arcade houses in the south of Dessau, there is still great delight: the Bauhaus buildings were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO just a fortnight ago.

Since Thursday, a huge banner in Peterholzstraße has also been drawing attention to this. It also mentions the www.laubenganghaeuser.de, website, where residents tell stories about living in the World Heritage Site.

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Arcade houses from above

#DailyDrone is the daily view of Germany from a bird's eye perspective. DW-Reise focuses on a different place every day. Fly with our #DailyDrone to the new UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bauhaus city of Dessau: The arcade houses in the Törten estate.

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Decision in Krakow: arcade houses also declared a World Heritage Site

On Sunday, the UNESCO committee decided that the arcade houses in Dessau-Süd and the former Federal School of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Bernau will also be added to the World Heritage List. People in Dessau were, and are, delighted.
– Source: http://www.mz-web.de

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Dessau: arcade houses in Törten now a World Heritage Site

Dessau’s application for an extension of its World Heritage designation was declared successful on Sunday. The Bauhaus sites in Dessau and Weimar have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1996.
MDR Saxony-Anhalt 9 July 2017

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Arcade houses on the World Heritage List?

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Bauhaus in Dessau
Arcade houses on the World Heritage List?
Research project reconstructs the original state of the arcade houses designed by Hannes Meyer, Bauhaus director from 1928 to 1930

The project is intended not only to reveal the design process behind the arcade houses and provide new insights into Bauhaus pedagogy, but also to reconstruct the original state of the buildings as far as possible. The research project is headed by Philipp Oswalt, Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the University of Kassel and Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation from 2009 to 2014.

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Press article by Theresa Ebert , N-TV – Panorama

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Germany wants more World Heritage titles

Germany is currently home to 41 of the 1052 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Other German candidates want to make it onto the list this year. But the admission criteria are tough and the possibility of rejection is real.

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Decision to extend UNESCO World Heritage Site on 9 July 2017

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Extension of the UNESCO Bauhaus World Heritage Site

At its 41st session in Krakow, Poland, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will decide whether the Bauhaus World Heritage site should be expanded to include the arcade houses in Dessau, built under the direction of the second Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer, and the ADGB trade school in Bernau near Berlin.

You can watch the https://41whckrakow2017.pl/en live stream on 9 July 2017 to see the decision.

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MZ Dessau-Roßlau UNESCO application in Dessau

A decision on whether to include the arcade houses in the south of Dessau and the Federal School of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Bernau on the UNESCO World Heritage List is expected to be made in summer 2017.

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