October 27. 2021
Treasure instead of debris
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.
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Specialist recycles antique building materials
Building materials dealer Gerd Bose and his son Nico take care of the dismantling of old buildings. In the process, they collect building materials, some of which are several hundred years old. You have to live with small defects or "quirks". But that is simply part of the old material. Especially now, in times of raw material scarcity, it is worth thinking about reuse. Moreover, reuse also saves CO2, because bricks, for example, do not have to be re-fired.
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September 28. 2021
Sustainability: The building material hunters
Sabine & Alexander Prenzel have their large building materials warehouse in 27336 Rethem, about 30 km from the Lüneburger Heide. As building material hunters, they search for, collect and sell historical materials such as wall stones, half-timbered beams, beaver tails, iron windows, doors, etc. together in elaborate manual work. In the NDR documentary bay Nora Stoewer, they organise the dismantling of an old three-storey farmhouse.
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Modernize old house
It is a small but convinced fan community: renovators and builders who use historic building materials in their projects. A certain fascination emanates from building materials and building elements that have already been used once. The motive is often to preserve history. Specialized dealers sell the corresponding goods.
Read articleJanuary 15. 2021
Stone rich Lübeck
Lübeck is known for its brick architecture. Because of the beautiful facades, tourists come to visit the Hanseatic city, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for a good 30 years.
Mathias Jürgensen, who has his exhibition warehouse about 1.5 hours away from Lübeck, deals in old bricks. The bricks are removed, cleaned and palletized in elaborate manual work. In the process, each brick is a piece of building culture. Around 100,000 bricks of different types - all from Schleswig Holstein - are stored in his brick yard.
Read articleDecember 17. 2020
Ancient substance
"Off-the-peg" houses as well as individually planned houses experience an individualization and their personal charm through historical building elements. This is an option that many a house builder likes to fall back on. "In a mix of styles, new and old face each other in a complementary way and enhance the other," describes Elias - 1st board member of the Entrepreneur Association Historical Building Materials e.V. - this architectural and emotionalizing stylistic device.
Read articleDecember 17. 2020
Café with historie
One succumbs to the magic of historical objects almost immediately when entering the garden and café of the Antikwerk in the baroque Glaserhof estate in Breitenthal in Lower Allgäu alone. Benches, troughs or fountains and arbors take visitors on a multifaceted journey back in time to an exciting offer.
Read articleNovember 27. 2020
The ÖKO-Patchwork-Palace
The administration of the Neustadt public utility company in Schleswig-Holstein was built from old reused building components. The 1,600 square meter façade of the Eco-Patchwork Palace was made of old oak beams that came from farmhouses in Lower Saxony. The supplier of the sawn oak beams was the company Thomas Knapp Historische Baustoffe GmbH. The more than 100-year-old street lamp, which supports the foyer of the staircase inside the building, was also made by the building materials dealer Knapp, who in turn bought it from his dealer colleague Florian Langenbeck.
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October 26. 2020
AntikStein: The best of yesterday
Upgrade your home - live in true historical flair.
Sören Niebuhr from AntikStein works with partners from demolition and dismantling to offer his customers undamaged goods of the highest quality. Analysis, advice and uncomplicated delivery round off his offer.
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October 23. 2020
Go there: From old to new
On the way in the Middle Rhine Valley - a river valley where much remains as it was.
Master carpenter Jürgen Zmelty from Lahnstein collects mainly doors, windows and wood - everything that is old, used and sorted out. The things are used, of course, but that is what makes them so charming for him. He tries to preserve the old and create something new from it, such as beautiful mirrors in a processed old wooden frame. Historical building materials - this is also sustainable, which earned him the Federal Environment Award.
In addition to carpenter Zmelty, the article introduces a winegrower, a pebble collector and self-made artist, a sculptor, a rafting sightseeing tour operator, a restorer and country inn operator.
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