Starting position

The Bertholdsburg and the medieval town of Schleusingen, immediately to the east, lie exposed on the plateau of a mountain spur between the valleys of the Breitenbach and the Nahe, which flow into the lock a few hundred metres to the southwest. The castle is integrated into the defensive system of the city and secured against it with a neck moat, which is partially preserved.

The Bertholdsburg in its present form as a closed four-winged complex goes back to the overbuilding of individual castle buildings built from the 13th century onwards in the 15th and especially in the 16th century, with the last gap closures in the 17th century. The Bertholdsburg was the seat of power and administration of the Counts of Henneberg until the death of the last of this family, Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg-Schleusingen in 1583, then fell to the House of Wettin, who used it as an official residence, and went to Prussia in 1815. Since 1994, the palace complex has belonged to the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation.

As part of the special investment programme I (SIP I), the federal and state governments provide funding for the Thuringian castle landscape. The funding period runs until 2027.

planning task

At Schloss Bertholdsburg, both renovation and expansion are to take place in the ground floor areas of the south and west wings. This includes the formation of a barrier-free usage unit on the ground floor for museum use as well as for events and the associated expansion of the museum tour and the offer for all visitor groups. The focus is on securing, renovating and mediating the oldest areas of the plant. The aim is to make it possible to experience the historical rooms in their historical spatial effect and aesthetics and at the same time to do justice to the museum use by restructuring the regional history exhibits in your presentation. In addition, the sequence of rooms in the exhibition area must be made clearly recognizable or legible. This requires direct cooperation with the museum and the external exhibition planner.

Another elementary focus is on structural and technical fire protection in order to improve personal and property protection throughout the plant. In addition to an overall concept for the access and rescue routes, a concept for dealing with fire walls and doors, the room closures of technical rooms and with regard to the lack of sealing off of pipes is to be developed. The basis is the fire protection concept, the gradual structural implementation of which is to be continued or completed with the measure.

Stairs and stairwells are to be adapted to the requirements in accordance with the fire protection concept by structural measures, safety lighting and escape route signage are to be checked and, if necessary, expanded, and the alarm in the event of fire must be further expanded. Open areas will remain in operation and will only be partially closed during the construction period.

The third important point of all planned measures is the barrier-free development in large parts of the entire castle in order to enable people with limited mobility access to the facility and to be able to offer extended event formats.

budget

A capped budget of EUR 3.45 million (net) is available for the project. This budget includes construction and planning costs (KG300-400, 700), shares for buildings to be processed and risk provisions for unforeseen events.

utilization

The Bertholdsburg Schleusingen is a publicly accessible object of interest. The user is the Foundation of Thuringian Palaces and Gardens and the Natural History Museum Schleusingen. In the future, an expansion of the use by the museum as well as an event use is sought.

The client reserves the right to commission the service phases in stages according to HOAI §§ 34 ff. In a first step, the commissioning for the work phases 1 and 2 according to HOAI, for preliminary planning with the aim of creating the renovation concept and cost estimation (including monument preservation objective) by 10/2023, without legal claim to further commissioning. The present feasibility study (preliminary planning) has been coordinated between the museum and the foundation and forms the planning basis on which further planning is to be oriented. The commissioning of further service phases (LP 3-8) exists as an option of order extension. Depending on the commitment of the funding bodies, they can only be commissioned as a result of the audited document. The processing of performance phase 3 concludes with an application document after Zuwendungsbau (Free State of Thuringia). It is an advantage if the applicants have experience in the processing of grant projects.

For the determination of the quantities of the building fabric to be processed, the calculation method is determined over volumes, areas, lengths or trades (not according to rough elements according to DIN 276).

The client expects the regular participation of the planner in the planning consultations. Important planning results are to be presented in the STSG (concept commission). In the implementation phase, the local presence must be ensured on at least 1-2 days / week.

Over the entire project period, the client reserves the right to restrict the assignment to partial services of individual performance levels or to individual sections of the construction project or otherwise modified. The client also reserves the right to assign partial services separately if there are special professional reasons for doing so. The contractor is obliged to provide the services of the further service levels if the client assigns them to him. As a result of a phased assignment in accordance with the provisions of the contract, the contractor cannot derive an increase in his fee.

For the implementation of the project, a competent team of architects with a special qualification in dealing with monuments is required, whose selection is to be made via a VgV procedure. The planning task described above is to be developed in close cooperation with the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, the representatives of the monument authority and the other specialist planners (including structural planning) in accordance with monuments, approvable and sustainable.