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Plankstetten Abbey in Bavaria
- Architecture
- hirner & riehl architekten und stadtplaner
- Interior Design
- hirner & riehl architekten und stadtplaner
- Site management
- Ingenieurbüro Seibold + Seibold
- Contractor
- Dörrmann Bau
- Structural engineering
- Lerzer Ing+Plan
- Building physics
- Basic Gesellschaft für Bauphysik Akustik
- Acoustics
- Basic Gesellschaft für Bauphysik Akustik
- Landscape architecture
- Garnhartner + Schober + Spörl
- HVAC equipment
- Ingenieurgesellschaft Frey- Donabauer-Wich
- Frey-Donabauer-Wich
- Fire safety engineering
- Rassek & Partner
- Lighting design
- Uni-Tec Projekt
- Building planning
- natürlich-baubio-logisch
- Timber construction
- Holzbau Bogner
- Roof
- Rimex
- Windows
- Taghell
- Source
- DETAIL 11/2022
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Preserving creation is everyday living practice to the Benedictine monks of Plankstetten Abbey. Their monastery, located on a site between the cities of Ingolstadt, Regensburg and Nuremberg, serves as a place of education and the property belonging to the abbey is used for organic agriculture. The monks placed high demands also on the expansion to their monastery: It was intended to meet passive house standards by using renewable materials as far as possible, non-hazardous in terms of building ecology and biology.