Wichtiger Hinweis
kubic - Culture and education campus
Stand: 17.04.2025
Inviting, inspiring and open: Erlangen gets a new cultural center, the cultural and educational campus kubic
Our goal
With an integrated hotel and catering area, the kubic will become an attractive conference and seminar venue in the heart of the city. Clubs and groups will have new rooms. The kubic will thus become a meeting place that invites people to take part in their own activities and experiment.
The service office, the rooms for groups and associations, the youth art school and the large event areas on the first floor will be directly accessible via an open foyer with catering facilities. Administration and hotel rooms are located in the tower, with the music school, dFi and vhs on the upper floor.
The basement houses rehearsal rooms for the music school, the bistro kitchen, storage and ancillary rooms. There are also workrooms for the youth art school and workrooms for the vhs. In the western part of the inner courtyard, a further large event hall for around 250 visitors will be created. On the eastern part of the site, a new three-storey wing with a basement is being built for a children's daycare facility.
The green area around the kubic will also be upgraded as part of the refurbishment. However, most of the old trees in the outdoor area will be retained.
The building is scheduled to open to the public in October 2025.
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Frequently asked questions
In future, the KuBiC will house the youth art school (JuKS), the municipal singing and music school, the German-French Institute (dFi), seminar rooms and workshops of the adult education center (vhs) and a daycare center. Rooms will also be made available for groups and clubs. The new KuBiC will also house a guest house, a bistro and administration rooms. The new service office will be the central point of contact in the building.
The basis for the KuBiC Frankenhof is the design by the architectural firm Heid + Heid BDA from Fürth, which won an architectural competition in 2015. The listed building will be completely renovated and extended along the southern Stadtmauerstraße. The new main entrance with barrier-free ramps will lead from Raumerstraße in the east via an open foyer with catering facilities into the KuBiC. The service office, the rooms for groups and clubs, the youth art school and the large event areas on the first floor will be directly accessible from here. The administration and guest rooms in the tower and the rooms of the music school, the dFi and the vhs on the upper floors are connected via stairs and new, barrier-free elevator systems. The music school's sound-intensive rehearsal rooms, the kitchen, as well as storage and ancillary rooms are located in the basement. In addition, the naturally lit exterior façades house JuKS workshops and vhs workrooms. In the western area of the inner courtyard, a further large event hall for approx. 250 visitors will be created.
On the eastern part of the site, a new three-storey wing with a basement will be built for a children's daycare facility.
The green area around the KuBiC Frankenhof will also be upgraded as part of the refurbishment. Among other things, a spacious area is planned between the main building and the daycare center. For events and summer parties, seating under a tree canopy is planned in the southern green area. Most of the old trees in the outdoor area will be retained.
Restrictions are to be expected in the area of Südliche Stadtmauerstraße and Raumerstraße during the renovation phase (construction site access etc.). The construction site facilities will mainly be located on the site of the former indoor swimming pool.
In the new KuBiC Frankenhof, clubs will have the opportunity to hold events in an attractive environment. In order to give as many clubs in Erlangen as possible this opportunity, no more rooms will be permanently allocated in future. The final usage regulations are still being worked out.
The Frankenhof indoor swimming pool, built in 1963, was in such a poor state of repair that the city council and municipal utilities decided to demolish it. In order to preserve the urgently needed indoor pool space in the city, a new indoor pool was built at Freibad West.
Work was carried out from the beginning of August to December 2017, which can be seen on YouTube.
At its meeting on March 30, 2017, the city council decided to purchase the (cleared) plot of land. According to the development plan, it is currently a so-called public use area on which only facilities or installations serving the general public may be built. In order to create new development opportunities, the planning law must therefore be amended. The options for future development will also be discussed as part of this process.
The KuBiC Frankenhof building is a listed building. It is not possible to build an underground car park underneath it, as the listed buildings would have to be demolished. An underground parking garage under the green areas to the east of the Frankenhof is not an alternative, as this would require the felling of numerous trees.
The city administration is aware of the tight parking situation around the KuBiC Frankenhof. However, the demolition of the indoor swimming pool means that the new KuBiC will no longer have a facility that has previously attracted many people looking for a parking space. The new facilities in the Frankenhof(vhs, music school, German-French Institute) are already located in the immediate vicinity of the Frankenhof, so that as a rule no additional traffic flows into the district. Studies on parking space usage have also shown that the Henkestrasse multi-storey parking lot is never fully utilized. The aim is therefore also to better direct people looking for a parking space to the parking garage in future.