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The year 2019 turned out to be a very lucky one for the Krawietz family from Hersbruck in Middle Franconia. The family of four had only recently fulfilled a long-held dream of owning their own home.  Now, as brand new homeowners, they began looking into the renovation work that needed to be carried out on the 130-year old property. When they leafed through a copy of the 3-4/19 issue of the...

Participants from fifteen countries came to the sixth WORKCAMP PARQUET. 27 craftsmen closed their businesses for a week or went on “vacation” to be part of the project. This year, traditionally held in early September, was a week of traditional restoration and seminars.

Laying parquet at a farm

A beautiful morning in May 2020. At the idyllic farm in Melle, Lower Saxony, the view from the window on the first floor of the extension takes in meadows and fields, while horses graze in the pasture at the front of the house. The family dogs and cats relax on the warm steps that lead down into the garden. While the animals enjoy the beautiful weather outside, the...

Impressive worksite with a view: The imposing Wilhelminian-style town house dating from 1890/1891 is situated on Hartwicusstrasse in the Uhlenhorst district of Hamburg, a mere stone’s throw from the Outer Alster Lake and overlooking the Mundsburg Canal. The villa built in the neoclassical style encompasses five floors and contains business premises in the souterrain. Four out of the eight...

Rejuvenation treatment for the wood flooring with AKZENT

The Boutique Hotel Villa am Ruhrufer Golf & Spa in Mülheim an der Ruhr is one of the smallest 5-star hotels in Germany and offers its guests a very personal and luxurious ambience in addition to a fantastic view across the Ruhr flood plains. All the important attractions in the Rhine and Ruhr area can be reached from the hotel’s countryside...

A level playing field

Providing women’s and girls’ football with a place where athletes can celebrate success and enjoy a sense of team spirit – this was FFC Bergheim’s goal when the club decided to relocate to the Lukas Podolski Sportpark. Founded in 2013 as a women and girls only football club, FFC Bergheim would now like to make itself even more attractive at its new location: in laying...

Restaurant Port in the Hotel Hafen Hamburg

If you look at Hamburg from the waterside - and everyone who visits the Hanseatic city should do so at least once - an impressive view of the St. Pauli landing stages opens up on the northern edge of the harbour. Just behind, between the Elbe and Reeperbahn street, soars the Hotel Hafen Hamburg, steeped in tradition: The impressive building complex...

The overarching objectives behind the development of the new H-plus Carré retail park and surrounding areas in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Herdorf included brightening up the city centre and revival of this increasingly unattractive, yet time-honoured location. An aging triple sports hall had in recent years eked out its existence on the site of the former Friedrichshütte, the scars of...

New stage floor in Bruges concert hall: a masterpiece of craftsmanship at a rattling pace

In the summer of 2019, employees of Parket Seye in the Flemish town of Oudenburg started their holidays later than usual: during the performance-free summer break, they had just six weeks to remove the old stage floor in the concert hall of the world-famous concert building in Bruges and install a new one....

The gasometer in the Heckinghausen district is really the city landmark of eastern Wuppertal. With a height of 66 metres, it towers over the surrounding buildings and can be seen from a great distance. Built in 1950, the gasometer reliably stored up to 60,000 cubic metres of gas over a period of 45 years to meet the population’s needs. At the beginning of the 90s, modern pipeline technology for...