Award of project management services for the support of the project "New construction of a music and art school on the Schloßberg in Böblingen".

The subject matter of the present proceedings is the Europe-wide award of project management services for the support of the project "New construction of a music and art school on the Schloßberg in Böblingen".

The design for the construction project envisages an ensemble of three buildings. The three-storey buildings take up the location of the historic castle buildings again. A plinth under the two northern buildings uses the terrain to the Schloßbergpark and houses rooms that open into the green of the park.

The listed castle cellar from the 14th/15th century in the southern part of the property is to be preserved and built over. An evaluation of the exact situation is still pending, which is why the exact height of the access levels of the buildings depending on it cannot yet be definitively stated. The historic castle wall will be preserved.

The construction project is intended to:

- to accommodate the music and art school, which is currently housed in difficult spatial conditions (supplemented by public uses such as gastronomy, event hall or club rooms), and previously

- to temporarily accommodate the Paul-Lechler-Schule, as its ancestral building on Pestalozzistraße urgently needed to be renovated or replaced by a new building ("interim use").

The construction project is located in the middle of the historic old town of Böblingen next to the city church of St. Dionysius and also on a site on which the (historical) Schloßberg buildings, which were destroyed in the 2nd World War, previously stood. With historical finds, the discovery of graves or historical buildings on the construction site, etc. and associated construction time shifts or changes in construction time are to be expected.

The Schloßberg is topographically and historically significant for Böblingen, there are cultural monuments that shape the cityscape (deanery building, old district court, Oberamtei, parish church of St. Dionysius) and the largely original preserved tunnel complex. The entire Schloßberg represents a high-ranking (archaeological) cultural monument with remains of the castle and the castle as well as the former fortifications in the ground.

As part of a preliminary building enquiry, a statement was received from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, which states that development in this area is basically conceivable from a monument point of view.

According to available initial estimates, the total investment amounts to EUR 33.7 million gross (KG 200 - 700 according to DIN 276: 2018-12 excluding construction price increase, KG 100, contingencies and financing).

A phased and gradual commissioning is intended, there is no entitlement to further commissioning. Initially, the basic services of project management of action areas A to E of project stages 1 and 2 are to be commissioned.

The applicants selected as part of the competition will receive further details on the scope of the services to be provided with a request to submit an offer.