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This year Annual General Meeting will take place from 2. to 4. June in Munich at our member Georgia Wittmaack - habitarte.

A report in the current Monumente issue of December 2022, the magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. Especially step 8 describes the sense of doing in an impressive way. Worth reading!

Our member Historische Baustoffe Ostalb with two large articles in the Geislinger Zeitung from 19.10.2022 and the Schwäbische Zeitung from 10.11.2022. Both articles can be viewed or downloaded as PDF files.

The UHB can look back on a successful and very well frequented trade fair appearance. Many valuable discussions could be held.

Our member Martin Häberle can be seen with his company Historische Baustoffe Ostalb on Wednesday, 21.9.2022 at 18.15 in the SWR. For the series made in Südwest the SWR accompanied him with a camera…

On a 20-year show site, directly on the Golden Road, about halfway between the imperial cities of Nuremberg and Prague, the association Via Carolina - Goldene Straße e. V., is recreating a travel station of Emperor Karls IV from the 14th century, using historical techniques and tools.

SWR visited our member Jürgen Zmelty and produced a 30-minute report on the sustainability of historic building materials.

The annual general meeting took place this year in Breisgau. The anniversary was the occasion for our three members Florian Langenbeck, Sebastian Juhnke and Hubert Rupp to put together an ambitious program.

After a Corona break of almost 2 years, the members met for the annual general meeting in Rethem (Aller). Sabine and Alexander Prenzel were the organizers and hosts of the meeting this year. Of course we had many important topics on the meeting program after such a long time. But there was also time for a nice excursion to the historical Celle and of course for our legendary UHB auction at the host company.

In painstaking handwork, Mr. and Mrs. Prenzel from the company "Historische Baustoffe Prenzel" together with their team remove old buildings. Of the salvaged building materials, almost 60% can be reused. Whether historic plain tiles, windows, beams, doors or clinker bricks - they give all these building materials a second life through salvage and resale. It is important to Prenzels that builders as well as architects should generally consider recycling more. Only in this way can new buildings be designed more ecologically in the future.