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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.

The client wanted a comprehensive sustainability concept for the new building of the municipal utility branch at the gates of Neustadt in Holstein. The company Thomas Knapp Historische Baustoffe supplied the old wood for the outer facade.

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.

Our member "Historische Türen Florian Langenbeck" clears his warehouse in Freiburg im Breisgau, and auctions on 2 days the complete stock of old building materials, historical doors and curious single elements.

Whenever the denkmal takes place in Leipzig and that is every two years, we hold our annual general meeting on Sunday after the fair has ended.

It was a nice surprise for Thomas Knapp at the end of this year's denkmal in Leipzig when he and his staff were invited to the medal ceremony on stage.

Often at the last minute, Olaf Elias learns that, for example, an old villa in Berlin-Grunewald is being demolished. Then it is necessary to quickly contact the site manager and instruct the employees to carry out the recovery in order to save the irretrievable wall reliefs of the house facade.

A journalist from the Heidenheimer Zeitung deliberately went into the visual overload and yet found the forest under trees. Everything is captured in this text and in the photographer's beautiful picture series.