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It's time again - the HBO Summer Festival is approaching. On July 2nd we want to celebrate the summer together with good music, good food and this time also with (hopefully good) football. Or what else there is to celebrate.

On the evening of 30 March 2016 we received the sad news that our colleague Theo Holtebrinck had died on the same day. This news was as surprising as it was shocking for us, because we had called Theo Holtebrinck the day before and even the night before.

Start the open-air season with us and be inspired by the spring-like atmosphere at Gut Glaserhof!

In the article for the "Denkmalbrief" newsletter, Managing Director H. Christoph Freudenberger talks about the association, the denkmal trade fair in Leipzig and the current challenges facing heritage conservation and restoration in Germany.

Presenter Andrea Ballschuh goes on an antique hunt together with two experts. They examine aging old pieces or bizarre items of junk and decide whether they can be made valuable again. Refurbishing or reworking is the motto of the new show "valuable again". A total of 5 episodes of the "refinement show" were broadcast on ZDF in 2016.

Second translocation in Söhnstetten on a good way. Reconstruction of the old school building on the HBO site at Gerstetter Berg progresses.

Important decisions had to be made at the general meeting in Aachen. On the one hand the board had to be newly elected and on the other hand important decisions had to be made regarding the participation of the UHB at the denkmal 2016 in Leipzig.

The article "Fachwerk-Sanierung mit Fingerspitzengefühl" in the newspaper "Die Welt" reports about the topic "Fachwerk-Sanierung", the UHB and the development of the Fachwerk scene.

The magazine Country Style introduces the companies of our members Martin Kölnberger, Jürgen Schaubhut, Erich Krause, Olaf Elias and Thomas Knapp, where you can find character pieces that give your personal living environment a very special aura.

A children's book also for adults. On the subject of "historical building materials", this book explains with great drawings and photos how an old, listed farm can be converted into a holiday farm and restored.