Important Notice
WerkRaum Erlangen project: Thinking differently about the city center
Stand: 28.05.2024
WerkRaum Erlangen was launched in summer 2021 as a dialog process to revitalize the city centre. We have already implemented some creative ideas. Visitors and residents can look forward to them.
Together with the urban planners from Stadt+Handel, we explored new ways to set fresh accents in the city center in 2022. We entered into an intensive exchange with many city center stakeholders. Our common goal: to bring more quality of life, more greenery and, above all, more life to Erlangen's old town and city center. Our aim is to move quickly from thinking to doing.
We have implemented some good ideas. Everyone involved was extremely willing to look at the city center with new or different eyes and provide important impetus. Two very successful city-center walks in spring 2022 provided a good initial insight into the opportunities that Erlangen's city center offers with its squares and places to linger and experience.
In 2023, successful projects such as the open-air dance floor in the Theaterhof returned. The red-brown chairs once again adorned Neustädter Kirchenplatz from March to November. But new projects are also in the pipeline.
Would you like to think ahead with us in the city center? Your ideas are welcome! Just send us an e-mail.
Successfully implemented ideas from WerkRaum 2022
The local gastronomy supports the project directly on the court and takes care of the logistics on site. And at the same time: if everyone takes care of the chairs on the Neustadt church square, they will have a future. Then a pilot project will become a showcase project. Erlangen is counting on everyone in Erlangen - your city, your chairs.
Premiere during the theater vacations: for the first time, we organized the opportunity to dance outdoors in August 2022. A dance floor was set up on the square behind Theater Erlangen at the end of July. This was available to all dance enthusiasts for four weeks. The Rupprecht Gillet dance school spontaneously agreed to coordinate the event. A colorful and varied program took place from Thursday to Sunday. Thanks go to all the Erlangen dance schools and dancers who made the open-air dance floor a real event with their range of workshops, community dance, cha cha, salsa, social dance, West Coast swing and much more. More than 1000 dancers were able to enjoy this summer event to the full in almost always perfect conditions.
The continuation in 2023 was once again a complete success
We were once again able to recruit two renowned Erlangen dance schools, Tanzschule Rupprecht Gillet and Tanzstudio Geist, to coordinate the dance program. This time, the on-site offer also included a mobile bar, which provided the necessary refreshments. Around 2,500 dancers took advantage of the colourful open-air programme in the middle of Erlangen's city centre.
There are also new seating options in Nürnberger Straße. On the shopping street between Peek & Cloppenburg and the town hall, there are a large number of trees that are protected against all kinds of adversities of tree life with a steel border. Some of these protective shields have now been fitted with new solid wood seating. The aim: more quality of life in public spaces, more space to sit in the shade. Especially good: our municipal carpenters made the seats. It is the result of a great cooperation between the economic development department and the municipal greenery, waste management and street cleaning company. If the prototypes prove their worth, an encore is planned. See for yourself!
Neustädter Kirchenplatz invites you to linger again
Our city, our chairs - to talk to each other, take a break, reflect, brainstorm together or simply sit and enjoy. Anyone looking for a rest will find more opportunities to linger in one of the most beautiful places in our city center.
Neustädter Kirchenplatz invites you to linger again
Our city, our chairs - to talk to each other, take a break, reflect, brainstorm together or simply sit and enjoy. Anyone looking for a rest will find more opportunities to linger in one of the most beautiful places in our city center.