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Bestehornpark Education Center

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Location: Aschersleben, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Aschersleben Globe Sculpture – Bestehornpark Education Center loop from Aschersleben

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2. Villa Westerberge – Freckleben Castle loop from Aschersleben

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3. Hennebrunnen Aschersleben – Aschersleben Globe Sculpture loop from Aschersleben

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Korngiebel

December 24, 2018

• Modern (Werkbund) and contemporary architecture

• 1911 on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary

Packaging manufacturer HCB by its founder Heinrich

Built by Christian Bestehorn, architect: Hans Heckner

• Main building, three-gate gate and clock tower are impressive

Ensemble of central German industrial architecture

• until 1945 owned by the manufacturer family Bestehorn

• after the expropriation continuation of the business as VEB »OPTIMA«

• 1991-2003 vacancy of almost the entire factory area

• From 2003 demolition of the factory halls except for the ensemble of Hans

Heckner

• 2003-2010 redevelopment of the three-hectare site under construction

the International Building Exhibition IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 and the

Landesgartenschau 2010 to an education center

• Architectural firm Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei from Stuttgart wins in the

Year 2006 the Europe-wide urban development competition:

Opening of the ceilings in the main building (atrium), cultivation of a modern one

Head building with meeting rooms as well as the striking latch construction

• today the seat of the creative workshop of the city of Aschersleben, the graphic arts foundation

Neo Rauch and several schools

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November 9, 2022

Memories can be very powerful. For a long time, the empty, huge building of the former Bestehornsche paper and cardboard factory, later VEB Optima, shaped the image of Aschersleben.

The city had tried in vain to find uses for the building, which is important for urban development.

A demolition was also discussed.

The IBA Stadtumbau 2010 gave shape to the idea of an educational center, and a Europe-wide competition made it concrete.

The Stuttgart architects Lederer + Ragnarsdóttier + Oei won in 2005. A stroke of luck for the city.

The extensive and technically remarkable renovation means that the large, listed old building is surprisingly bright and cheerful in the street space, a circumstance that the long, lime-coated brick building of the right-angled wing is happy to carry on.

With its two-storey structure, it seems to draw the monumental size of the 'Heckner giant' into the remarkably landscaped area of the campus - incidentally an integral part of the state garden show held at the same time as the IBA - and thus make it more pleasing to the viewer.

The roof landscape of the supplementary building is reminiscent of sheds in industrial buildings. The eye-catcher on the gable is the vertical row of curved 'smiling' balconies.

The architects have opened up the formerly gloomy factory floors, where secondary and vocational school students now study together, for a bright, slightly sober atrium that floods the corridors and a newly created entrance area with light.

A band of dark blue glazed tiles runs along the gallery corridors, in the foyer they also cover long wall benches.

It is the clear lines, this reduction to the essentials, that reveal parallels to Scandinavian models.

The 'compelling architectural concept' and the unmistakable 'feeling for educational buildings, for pedagogical requirements and concepts as well as for the needs of pupils' were decisive for a shortlist for the Architecture Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2010.

(Source: ak-lsa.de)

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Location: Aschersleben, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Bestehornpark Education Center

1. Aschersleben Globe Sculpture – Bestehornpark Education Center loop from Aschersleben

2. Villa Westerberge – Freckleben Castle loop from Aschersleben

3. Hennebrunnen Aschersleben – Aschersleben Globe Sculpture loop from Aschersleben

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