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The meeting planned for this spring could unfortunately not take place due to the pandemic.

Close to the picturesque town of "Rothenburg ob der Tauber" we rent out four spacious holiday apartments with charm and historical furnishings in two listed half-timbered houses. The beautiful Franconian village of Ickelheim is a district of the spa town of Bad Windsheim, known for its Franken Therme and the Franconian open-air museum. Let yourself be inspired by what you can do with historical building materials!

Historical building materials are in vogue, and not only because of their better ecological balance. Those who recycle old materials in a construction project create buildings and interiors that tell stories.

This year the annual general meeting took place in beautiful Fulda. The host this time was the stonemason Karl Bug. The company reworks antique stone objects for garden and home. For more than 80 years, however, it has also been producing high-quality gravestones from a wide variety of materials.

Our member "Historische Türen Florian Langenbeck" has arrived and moved in well at its new location. The new branch is located in the Ziegelhofstraße in the Freiburg district of Lehen.

Refreshed, relaunched, recycled ... no matter which word you finally want to use: Almost exactly 20 years after our first website, a new, fourth version has gone online.

For the 54th meeting Thomas Knapp invited this time, as before in autumn 2013, to the Weserbergland. On the weekend from 17 to 19 May it was time for the colleagues from all parts of Germany to come to Deensen.

The Antik-Stein company from Sören Niebuhr mainly deals with the professional dismantling of old buildings and the associated salvage of stones. It is also shown on installation / laying examples how the historical bricks are reused.

The Internorga was held in Hamburg on Friday, 15 March 2019. "The leading trade fair for the entire out-of-home market" lasts five days up to and including Tuesday, 19 March and KNAPP will be present for the second time, as in the previous year.

Door specialist Olaf Elias, with around 3,000 doors in stock, presents its treasures to the power tool company FESTOOL. Here, professional craftsmen, who carefully work on the old substance, can find beautiful old building doors, large house entrance doors as well as antique wooden doors for their customers. Of course, the huge warehouse offers further real historical treasures such as windows made of wood and iron or old brass fittings.