We are pleased about the great success of this year's bdla-student competition in Central Germany 2021/22 on the topic "Sponge City - Ideas for the World Heritage City of Quedlinburg", in which three landscape architecture students from the TU Dresden won the first, second and one of the third prizes!

We warmly congratulate the three prizewinners of the TU Dresden:

Holger Rothamel, with his contribution "PANTA RHEI, everything flows" for the first prize,

Amrei Stenz, with her contribution "barrier-free water supply system for the listed old town of Quedlinburg" for the second prize and

Mona Schäfer, with her contribution "With THREE principles to the climate-resilient city of Quedlinburg" for the third prize.

In the 2021/22 winter semester, the three students worked on their bachelor’s or master’s thesis on the subject at the professorship for landscape architecture at the TU Dresden and took part in the competition.

A fourteen-strong competition jury, with representatives from landscape architecture, architecture, civil engineering and monument preservation, had already met on March 25^th in the Palais Salfeldt in Quedlinburg and selected the prizewinners from the total of 70 works submitted by five universities in an anonymous competition process.

The public honor and award ceremony as well as the exhibition opening of all submitted competition entries took place on April 8^th in the Kulturkirche St. Blasi in Quedlinburg. The two award winners Holger Rothamel and Amrei Stenz and their supervisor Anne Oberritter from the Professorship for Landscape Architecture at the TU Dresden were also present and were able to present the work to the public again. In addition, the first two prizewinners were invited to present their designs to the building committee of the city of Quedlinburg.

bdla-student competition Central Germany 2021/22

© Holger Rothamel

© Amrei Stenz

© Mona Schäfer