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This year the annual general meeting will take place from Friday June 7th to Sunday June 9th in the middle of Germany, in the Rhön.

This year's autumn meeting took place in the Black Forest in bright sunshine. It was hosted by our member Benjamin Kübel /FachWerk Schiltach.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

For the 52nd member meeting our new 1st board Olaf Elias and Nicole Wilken had thought up something very special. The garden city Frohnau, a guided tour in the Hedwig Bollhagen workshops and Clärchen's Ballhaus in Berlin

We had great expectations of this meeting. Unknown place, important decisions and decisions, all this made us travel to Thuringia with excitement. And we were not disappointed. All is well, that means in New German, but read for yourself.

On 9.6.2017 a nice article about the phenomenon of historical building materials and the UHB appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. ...weakness for old things, the addiction for things with history...

The club members met for the second time at Martin Häberle (HBO) in Söhnstetten on the Swabian Alb

In the article "Separating building rubble saves cash money" the managing director of the UHB, H. Christoph Freudenberger, gives tips on how to save waste fees or even make cash out of the building materials.

The preparations of the UHB lasted more than one year, on November 10th it was time, the denkmal 2016 opened its doors and the UHB was present with a broad mass presence.

The Oldenburg civil engineer, professional and university lecturer Prof. Dr. Klaus Struve, has been collecting lights and door fittings from the Gründerzeit, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Classic Modern periods for five decades.

As already announced, the Unternehmerverband Historische Baustoffe e.V. (Association of Historical Building Materials) (UHB) will be auctioning off 60 historical objects from its members' holdings on all three days of the "denkmal" trade fair from 10 to 12 November 2016 from 4.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Slowly but surely an overall picture is emerging for the UHB's appearance at denkmal in Leipzig in November.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The idea of offering restored monuments as holiday homes very close to their original condition has been inspiring UHB Managing Director H.Christoph Freudenberger since the 1990s. The WP61 Railway Keeper's House on the Black Forest Railway is such an object!