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Greenhouses to visit in Germany

The Verrière atlas lists 89 greenhouses in Germany, built between 1701 and 2026.

Germany covers three centuries of glass architecture, from Kassel's baroque orangery to Frankfurt's Palmengarten and Berlin-Dahlem's Großes Tropenhaus, one of Europe's largest historic greenhouses. Its zoos later popularised the immersive indoor jungle, with Leipzig's Gondwanaland its most spectacular example.

89Greenhouses
1701Oldest — Karlsaue Orangery
2026Newest — Schaugewächshäuser of the Flora and Botanical Garden of Cologne
76Cities
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North Rhine-Westphalia (17)

Pflanzenschauhäuser (Plant Show Houses), Rombergpark Botanical Garden, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
1958

Pflanzenschauhäuser (Plant Show Houses), Rombergpark Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
Four listed glasshouses of 1958, including a Coal Age flora house where a grove of 35 Wollemi pines was planted.
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Tropenhaus and display glasshouses of the Solingen Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Solingen), Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
1965

Tropenhaus and display glasshouses of the Solingen Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Solingen)

🇩🇪 Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Opened in 1965 and listed as a monument with the whole garden in 2010, Solingen's Tropenhaus reopened in 2023 under new glazing.
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Kuppelgewächshaus (Dome Greenhouse), Düsseldorf University Botanical Garden, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
1974–1975

Kuppelgewächshaus (Dome Greenhouse), Düsseldorf University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
A dome of 630 triangles, 18 m high and free of interior supports, devoted to the floras of Mediterranean-type climates.
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Tropenhaus and Show Glasshouses, Botanical Garden of Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
1976–1977

Tropenhaus and Show Glasshouses, Botanical Garden of Ruhr University Bochum

🇩🇪 Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
A tropical house with 17 m of headroom, where a titan arum flowered for the first time in the Ruhr region in September 2017.
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Gewächshäuser of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Bonn, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
1979–1984

Gewächshäuser of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Bonn

🇩🇪 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
A glasshouse complex rebuilt in 1979-1984 on the foundations of the nineteenth-century houses, where the titan arum flowers from time to time.
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Glaselefant (Glass Elephant) and Butterfly House, Maximilianpark, Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
1983–1984

Glaselefant (Glass Elephant) and Butterfly House, Maximilianpark

🇩🇪 Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
A 1902 coal washery turned into a 35-metre glass elephant, with a palm garden inside its head.
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Pflanzenschauhäuser of the Grugapark, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
1985

Pflanzenschauhäuser of the Grugapark

🇩🇪 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Three glass pyramids of 1985 housing rainforest, cloud forest and succulents, reopened in 2021 under membrane-cushion roofs.
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Schaugewächshaus of the Krefeld Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Krefeld), Krefeld (Oppum), North Rhine-Westphalia
1996

Schaugewächshaus of the Krefeld Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Krefeld)

🇩🇪 Krefeld (Oppum), North Rhine-Westphalia
A 128 m² display glasshouse built in 1996 for cacti, Canary Islands plants and Mediterranean species.
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1998

Regenwaldhaus (Rainforest House)

🇩🇪 Krefeld Zoo, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia
Under a timber and Plexiglas roof, most of its forty or so animal species move about with no visible barriers.
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Großes Glashaus and theme houses of the Wuppertal Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Wuppertal), Wuppertal (Elberfeld, Hardt), North Rhine-Westphalia
2007

Großes Glashaus and theme houses of the Wuppertal Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Wuppertal)

🇩🇪 Wuppertal (Elberfeld, Hardt), North Rhine-Westphalia
A 400 m² main glasshouse and two satellite houses, opened in 2007 on the former Stadtgärtnerei site, north of the Elisenturm.
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ELE Tropenparadies (tropical hall of the Asia world), ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
2010

ELE Tropenparadies (tropical hall of the Asia world), ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen

🇩🇪 Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
A tropical hall of about 4,500 m² under a translucent envelope, where orangutans and birds live among banana plants and rubber trees.
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Tropenhaus Kleve (Rhine-Waal University tropical greenhouse), Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia
2012

Tropenhaus Kleve (Rhine-Waal University tropical greenhouse)

🇩🇪 Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia
A university glasshouse whose banana plants have yielded more than 850 kg of fruit since 2013, beside Kleve's former harbour.
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Eifalia Butterfly Garden (Schmetterlingsgarten, tropical butterfly house), Ahrhütte (Blankenheim), North Rhine-Westphalia
2016

Eifalia Butterfly Garden (Schmetterlingsgarten, tropical butterfly house)

🇩🇪 Ahrhütte (Blankenheim), North Rhine-Westphalia
A translucent-walled greenhouse of about 240 m² where blue morphos fly, in an Eifel village that grew out of the iron industry.
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Meranti-Halle (tropical hall of the Allwetterzoo), Allwetterzoo, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia
2020–2023

Meranti-Halle (tropical hall of the Allwetterzoo)

🇩🇪 Allwetterzoo, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia
An elliptical dome of ETFE cushions, heated by geothermal energy, has housed giant otters, tapirs and howler monkeys since 2023.
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Schaugewächshäuser of the Flora and Botanical Garden of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
2026

Schaugewächshäuser of the Flora and Botanical Garden of Cologne

🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Three parabolic steel-and-glass wings opened in June 2026, with a canopy walkway through a tropical house and a desert canyon.
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Glasshouses and Orangery of the Münster Botanical Garden, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia

Glasshouses and Orangery of the Münster Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia
Below Münster's palace, a listed classical orangery of 1840 stands beside ten glasshouses rebuilt after wartime destruction.
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Palmenhalle at NaturaGart Park (glass-roofed palm hall)

🇩🇪 Ibbenbüren-Dörenthe, North Rhine-Westphalia
According to the operator, 88 palms grow under a 1,700 m² glass roof, between arcades, a bistro and a diving base.
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Baden-Württemberg (13)

Wilhelma Historic Glasshouses (Kuppelhäuser), Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
1852–1853

Wilhelma Historic Glasshouses (Kuppelhäuser)

🇩🇪 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Prefabricated cast-iron glasshouses of 1852-53, built to overwinter orange trees and grow the giant Victoria water lily, now aviaries.
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Schaugewächshäuser of the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
1853–1857

Schaugewächshäuser of the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
Three iron-and-glass houses designed by Heinrich Hübsch, destroyed in 1944-1945, rebuilt and then restored until 2018.
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Show Houses (Schauhäuser) of the Heidelberg University Botanical Garden, Heidelberg (Neuenheimer Feld), Baden-Württemberg
1915

Show Houses (Schauhäuser) of the Heidelberg University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Heidelberg (Neuenheimer Feld), Baden-Württemberg
The show houses of a garden founded in 1593 keep collections of bromeliads, tropical orchids and dry-climate plants from Madagascar.
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Städtisches Palmenhaus (Palmenhaus Paradies), Konstanz, Konstanz (Paradies district), Baden-Württemberg
1922–1923

Städtisches Palmenhaus (Palmenhaus Paradies), Konstanz

🇩🇪 Konstanz (Paradies district), Baden-Württemberg
Opened in 1923 to house the city's palms, this protected glasshouse was restored in 2005 thanks to a citizens' campaign.
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Exotenhaus (former Tullabad), Karlsruhe Zoo (Zoologischer Stadtgarten), Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
1955 · 2015

Exotenhaus (former Tullabad), Karlsruhe Zoo (Zoologischer Stadtgarten)

🇩🇪 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
A listed 1955 swimming hall, its glass fronts kept, turned in 2015 into a tropical hall where birds and monkeys roam unfenced.
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Pflanzenschauhaus (Plant Show House), Luisenpark, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg
1958 · 2023

Pflanzenschauhaus (Plant Show House), Luisenpark

🇩🇪 Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg
Successor to an early 20th-century palm house lost in the war, this 1958 complex was judged too defining for the park to be demolished.
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Palmenhaus (Palm House), Mainau Island, Mainau Island, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg
1968 · 1998

Palmenhaus (Palm House), Mainau Island

🇩🇪 Mainau Island, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg
Under a wave-shaped roof rising to 17.40 m grow more than twenty palm species, including a Canary date palm planted in 1888.
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Tropicarium, Tübingen University Botanical Garden, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
1969

Tropicarium, Tübingen University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
Six glass hexagons of different heights, carried on one concrete column, recall the flower umbels of cow parsley.
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Show Glasshouses of the Freiburg Botanical Garden (Schaugewächshäuser, Botanischer Garten Freiburg), Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg
1970–1972

Show Glasshouses of the Freiburg Botanical Garden (Schaugewächshäuser, Botanischer Garten Freiburg)

🇩🇪 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg
Fitted out from 2018 in the former subtropical house, the French Guiana house recreates a tidal mangrove complete with mudskippers.
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1980

Tropenhaus at Tiergarten Ulm

🇩🇪 Tiergarten Ulm, Ulm (Friedrichsau), Baden-Württemberg
A tropical house opened in 1980 at Baden-Württemberg's first Landesgartenschau, where several hundred plant species grow.
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Tropical Glasshouses of the Ulm University Botanical Garden (Tropengewächshäuser), Ulm (Oberer Eselsberg), Baden-Württemberg
1997

Tropical Glasshouses of the Ulm University Botanical Garden (Tropengewächshäuser)

🇩🇪 Ulm (Oberer Eselsberg), Baden-Württemberg
Two houses set the lowland rainforest, with cacao and vanilla, against the montane forest of tree ferns and epiphytes.
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Sammlungsgewächshaus (Collection Glasshouse), Hohenheim Gardens, Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Plieningen), Baden-Württemberg
2014

Sammlungsgewächshaus (Collection Glasshouse), Hohenheim Gardens

🇩🇪 Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Plieningen), Baden-Württemberg
Successor to a ducal pineapple house of 1789, it holds one of the largest begonia collections in Germany.
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Pflanzenhaus (Cactus House) of the Villengärten, Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg
2021–2022

Pflanzenhaus (Cactus House) of the Villengärten

🇩🇪 Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg
A glasshouse built for the 2021 Landesgartenschau, now the permanent home of the town's cactus collection, some of it over a century old.
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Saxony (11)

Schlossgärtnerei and Pineapple House, Muskau Park (Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau), Bad Muskau, Saxony
1833 · 2012

Schlossgärtnerei and Pineapple House, Muskau Park (Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)

🇩🇪 Bad Muskau, Saxony
The glasshouses of Pückler's Schlossgärtnerei, growing pineapples again since 2012, house an exhibition on the history of the fruit.
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Pillnitz Palmenhaus (Palm House), Dresden, Saxony
1859–1861

Pillnitz Palmenhaus (Palm House)

🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony
Built in 1859-1861, it was then regarded as the largest greenhouse in Germany made entirely of cast iron.
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Glasshouses and Victoriahaus of the Leipzig University Botanical Garden, Leipzig, Saxony
1876 · 2000

Glasshouses and Victoriahaus of the Leipzig University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Leipzig, Saxony
Its 1876 Victoria house is the only original house of its kind left in Germany and the third oldest of the five that survive.
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Wolfstal Camellia House (Roßwein Camellia), Roßwein (Wolfstal), Saxony
1961

Wolfstal Camellia House (Roßwein Camellia)

🇩🇪 Roßwein (Wolfstal), Saxony
Deep in the Wolfstal, a greenhouse open a few weeks a year shelters a white camellia more than 200 years old, listed as a cultural monument in 2000.
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Glasshouses of the TU Dresden Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der TU Dresden), Dresden, Saxony
1975–1981

Glasshouses of the TU Dresden Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der TU Dresden)

🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony
Wrecked by the bombing of February 1945, the glasshouses of Dresden's botanical garden were rebuilt between 1975 and 1981 beside the Großer Garten.
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Kamelienhaus (mobile glasshouse of the Pillnitz Camellia), Dresden (Pillnitz), Saxony
1992

Kamelienhaus (mobile glasshouse of the Pillnitz Camellia)

🇩🇪 Dresden (Pillnitz), Saxony
A 54-tonne glasshouse on rails, rolled every autumn over a camellia planted in 1801.
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Chemnitz Botanical Garden glasshouses (Botanischer Garten Chemnitz), Chemnitz, Saxony
1998–2002

Chemnitz Botanical Garden glasshouses (Botanischer Garten Chemnitz)

🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Saxony
In a school garden founded in 1898, a 500 m² Tropenhaus holds some 800 tropical species, with free admission.
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2001

Pongoland tropical hall (Leipzig Zoo)

🇩🇪 Leipzig Zoo, Leipzig, Saxony
Under a transparent foil roof 12 to 19 m high, all four great ape species live in a tropical hall tied to a Max Planck research centre.
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Gondwanaland, Leipzig Zoo, Leipzig, Saxony
2011

Gondwanaland

🇩🇪 Leipzig Zoo, Leipzig, Saxony
Beneath a roof spanning 154 m, boats follow the Gamanil river through the forests of three continents.
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Königsbrück Castle Camellia House (Königsbrücker Kamelien), Königsbrück, Saxony

Königsbrück Castle Camellia House (Königsbrücker Kamelien)

🇩🇪 Königsbrück, Saxony
Three camellias planted around 1825: the oldest camellias standing together north of the Alps, under the glass of a castle greenhouse.
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Zuschendorf Castle Glasshouses (Kamelienschloss), Pirna (Zuschendorf), Saxony

Zuschendorf Castle Glasshouses (Kamelienschloss)

🇩🇪 Pirna (Zuschendorf), Saxony
Seven glasshouses hold the Saxon camellia collection of the Seidel family, the first plant collection under monument protection in Germany.
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Bavaria (9)

Gewächshäuser of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg, Munich, Bavaria
1910–1912

Gewächshäuser of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg

🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria
Three great halls and eleven smaller houses modelled on Frankfurt's Palmengarten, crowned by a palm-house dome more than 20 m high.
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Glasshouses of the Erlangen Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Erlangen), Erlangen, Bavaria
1964

Glasshouses of the Erlangen Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Erlangen)

🇩🇪 Erlangen, Bavaria
On the north side of Erlangen's Schlossgarten, a 1960s glasshouse complex sets lowland and montane rainforest beside mangroves and cacti.
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1972

Glasshouses of the University of Regensburg Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Regensburg)

🇩🇪 Regensburg, Bavaria
Four visitor glasshouses arranged by climate, from cocoa to cacti, in a university garden founded in 1977.
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Glasshouses of the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Bavaria
1985–1993

Glasshouses of the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG), University of Bayreuth

🇩🇪 Bayreuth, Bavaria
One house recreates the daily temperature swing of tropical high mountains; an Ethiopian giant lobelia flowered there in 1999, a first in cultivation.
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1995 · 2026

Dschungelwelt (Jungle World) at Tierpark Hellabrunn

🇩🇪 Tierpark Hellabrunn, Munich (Thalkirchen), Bavaria
A tropical hall under ETFE cushions, reopened in June 2026 after nearly four years of works, with its original vegetation kept alive.
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2003

'Pflanzenwelt unter Glas', Augsburg Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Augsburg, Bavaria
A glass cube of 2003 that wraps around the steel frame of the garden's octagonal Victoria regia house, built in 1937.
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2011

Manatihaus (Manatee House), Nuremberg Zoo

🇩🇪 Nuremberg, Bavaria
Wooden walkways cross the canopy of a recreated South American forest and look down on a pool of Caribbean manatees.
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Tropenhaus am Rennsteig – Klein Eden (Tropical House), Kleintettau (Tettau), Bavaria
2011–2014

Tropenhaus am Rennsteig – Klein Eden (Tropical House)

🇩🇪 Kleintettau (Tettau), Bavaria
Papayas and star fruit grown in Upper Franconia, heated by the surplus process heat of a neighbouring glassworks.
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Display glasshouses (Tropenhaus) of the University of Würzburg Botanical Garden, Würzburg, Bavaria

Display glasshouses (Tropenhaus) of the University of Würzburg Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Würzburg, Bavaria
In Würzburg's botanical garden, founded in 1696, the tropical house leads visitors round six habitats, from lowland forest to the arid lands of Madagascar.
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Lower Saxony (5)

Glasshouses of the Old Botanical Garden, Göttingen (Alter Botanischer Garten), Göttingen, Lower Saxony
1857

Glasshouses of the Old Botanical Garden, Göttingen (Alter Botanischer Garten)

🇩🇪 Göttingen, Lower Saxony
Built in 1857 as a Victorian-style orangery, the fern house has held since 1910 a collection raised from spores gathered around the world.
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1958

Berggarten Show Houses (Herrenhausen Gardens)

🇩🇪 Hanover, Lower Saxony
Its orchid house, one of the largest permanent orchid displays in Europe, shows 500 to 800 orchids in flower all year round.
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Regenwaldhaus (Rainforest House), Osnabrück University Botanical Garden, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony
1998

Regenwaldhaus (Rainforest House), Osnabrück University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony
A 21-metre glasshouse built against the rock face of a former quarry, with walkways that lead up into the canopy.
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Glasshouses of the TU Braunschweig Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der TU Braunschweig), Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
2006–2018

Glasshouses of the TU Braunschweig Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten der TU Braunschweig)

🇩🇪 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
Rebuilt in 2018, the Victoria cruziana house shelters a giant water lily that flowers on only two nights a year.
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2006 · 2019

Tropenhaus and Subtropenhaus, Oldenburg University Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Oldenburg, Lower Saxony
Two small university glasshouses: one kept at 24 °C beneath a waterfall, the other devoted to plants that save water.
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Brandenburg (4)

Orangerieschloss (Orangery Palace, Sanssouci), Potsdam, Brandenburg
1851–1864

Orangerieschloss (Orangery Palace, Sanssouci)

🇩🇪 Potsdam, Brandenburg
The last and largest palace built in Sanssouci Park, whose two side halls still shelter more than 1,000 potted plants each winter.
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Glasshouses of the University of Potsdam Botanical Garden (Palmenhaus and Victoriahaus), Potsdam, Brandenburg
1908–1912

Glasshouses of the University of Potsdam Botanical Garden (Palmenhaus and Victoriahaus)

🇩🇪 Potsdam, Brandenburg
Built in 1908-1912 for the royal nursery of Sanssouci, these glasshouses shelter two dwarf palms some 140 years old from the former court nursery.
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Rainforest hall of Tropical Islands (former CargoLifter airship hangar), Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg, Brandenburg
2000–2004

Rainforest hall of Tropical Islands (former CargoLifter airship hangar)

🇩🇪 Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg, Brandenburg
A 107 m-high airship hangar, partly clad in ETFE, now sheltering 50,000 plants of more than 600 species.
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Biosphäre Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg
2001–2002

Biosphäre Potsdam

🇩🇪 Potsdam, Brandenburg
The former flower hall of the 2001 Federal Garden Show, set between the earthworks of a military site and turned into a rainforest in 2002.
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Hesse (4)

Großes Gewächshaus (Great Greenhouse), Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Hesse
1822–1823

Großes Gewächshaus (Great Greenhouse), Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

🇩🇪 Kassel, Hesse
Commissioned in 1822 by Elector William II, it ranks among the earliest iron-and-glass structures in Europe.
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Greenhouse for Tropical Crops, Witzenhausen (Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen, University of Kassel), Witzenhausen, Hesse
1965–1966

Greenhouse for Tropical Crops, Witzenhausen (Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen, University of Kassel)

🇩🇪 Witzenhausen, Hesse
Begun in 1902 for the German Colonial School, Witzenhausen's collection of tropical crops has filled a 1,200 m² glasshouse since 1966.
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Show Glasshouses of the Marburg Botanical Garden (Lahnberge), Marburg, Hesse
1977

Show Glasshouses of the Marburg Botanical Garden (Lahnberge)

🇩🇪 Marburg, Hesse
A cluster of themed glasshouses, led by a 12-metre-high tropical house, at the heart of a 20-hectare university garden.
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Botanischer Garten Gießen Glasshouses (Palmenhaus, Ernst-Küster-Haus, Victoria-Haus), Gießen, Hesse
2017–2022

Botanischer Garten Gießen Glasshouses (Palmenhaus, Ernst-Küster-Haus, Victoria-Haus)

🇩🇪 Gießen, Hesse
Three new glasshouses opened in 2022 recall the palm house destroyed in the war, in Germany's oldest university botanical garden.
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Saxony-Anhalt (4)

Großes Tropenhaus and Victoria House, Halle Botanical Garden, Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt
1872–1873

Großes Tropenhaus and Victoria House, Halle Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt
A listed tropical house of 1872-1873 standing beside an observatory of 1788, in what was Prussia's first medicinal garden.
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Gruson-Gewächshäuser (Gruson Greenhouses), Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
1896

Gruson-Gewächshäuser (Gruson Greenhouses)

🇩🇪 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Born of the plant collection of industrialist Hermann Gruson, given to Magdeburg in 1895, they still grow a golden barrel cactus about 150 years old.
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Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly House) in the Elbauenpark, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
2000

Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly House) in the Elbauenpark

🇩🇪 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Opened in 2000 to revive the park of the 1999 Bundesgartenschau, a glass pavilion where hundreds of tropical butterflies fly.
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2014

Schimpansenhaus (chimpanzee house with African tropical glasshouse), Magdeburg Zoo

🇩🇪 Zoologischer Garten Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Opened in 2014, a glass hall where ten chimpanzees live among tropical vegetation, watched from two levels.
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Thuringia (4)

Rococo Orangery of Bendeleben (Rokoko-Orangerie with glazed wings), Bendeleben, Kyffhäuserland, Thuringia
1770

Rococo Orangery of Bendeleben (Rokoko-Orangerie with glazed wings)

🇩🇪 Bendeleben, Kyffhäuserland, Thuringia
The only rococo orangery of its kind preserved in Germany, according to the Kyffhäuser nature park, with glazed wings fitted with sun-catchers.
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Glasshouses of the Jena Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Jena), Jena, Thuringia
1969–1983

Glasshouses of the Jena Botanical Garden (Botanischer Garten Jena)

🇩🇪 Jena, Thuringia
The glasshouses of Germany's second-oldest botanical garden, founded in 1586 and for decades overseen by Goethe.
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Pflanzenpavillon (plant pavilion) of the Japanese Garden "Kōfuku no niwa", Bad Langensalza, Bad Langensalza, Thuringia
2002 · 2001

Pflanzenpavillon (plant pavilion) of the Japanese Garden "Kōfuku no niwa", Bad Langensalza

🇩🇪 Bad Langensalza, Thuringia
At the heart of a Japanese garden opened in 2002, a two-storey timber-and-glass pavilion holds an indoor garden and a tea house.
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Danakil (desert and jungle house, egapark), Erfurt, Thuringia
2021

Danakil (desert and jungle house, egapark)

🇩🇪 Erfurt, Thuringia
Named after Ethiopia's Danakil Desert, it leads visitors along a watercourse from a 1,250 m² desert into a tropical rainforest.
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (3)

Historic Glasshouses of the Greifswald University Botanic Garden, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
1886

Historic Glasshouses of the Greifswald University Botanic Garden

🇩🇪 Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
A rare survivor of the late 19th century, its riveted-steel palm house of 1886 is protected as a monument of national importance.
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Loki Schmidt Glasshouses (Loki-Schmidt-Gewächshäuser), University of Rostock Botanical Garden, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2009–2011

Loki Schmidt Glasshouses (Loki-Schmidt-Gewächshäuser), University of Rostock Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Inaugurated in May 2009 in the presence of Loki Schmidt, they replaced the old Doberaner Straße glasshouses, closed for disrepair.
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Darwineum Tropical Hall (Tropenhalle), Rostock Zoo, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2012

Darwineum Tropical Hall (Tropenhalle), Rostock Zoo

🇩🇪 Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Beneath more than 3,000 m² of ETFE cushions, the Darwineum's tropical hall is home to Rostock Zoo's gorillas and orangutans.
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Schleswig-Holstein (3)

Garten der Schmetterlinge (Butterfly Garden), Friedrichsruh, Friedrichsruh (Aumühle), Schleswig-Holstein
1985

Garten der Schmetterlinge (Butterfly Garden), Friedrichsruh

🇩🇪 Friedrichsruh (Aumühle), Schleswig-Holstein
Billed as Germany's first butterfly garden: a 450 m² glazed tropical house on the Bismarck family estate east of Hamburg.
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Show Glasshouses of the Kiel University Botanical Garden (Schaugewächshäuser), Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
1985

Show Glasshouses of the Kiel University Botanical Garden (Schaugewächshäuser)

🇩🇪 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
One of the largest publicly accessible glasshouse complexes in northern Germany, led by a tropical house some 18 metres high.
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2013

Schmetterlingspark Fehmarn (tropical butterfly hall)

🇩🇪 Burg auf Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein
A 1,000 m² tropical hall under a glass roof where hundreds of butterflies fly among banana plants, orchids and water lilies on a Baltic island.
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Rhineland-Palatinate (2)

1948–1954

Glasshouses of the Botanical Garden of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

🇩🇪 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate
A post-war glasshouse range whose 1954 'Verbinder' is still the tallest house, joined in 2025 by two new houses for desert plants.
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1987

Garten der Schmetterlinge (Butterfly Garden), Sayn Castle

🇩🇪 Bendorf-Sayn, Rhineland-Palatinate
Two glass pavilions opened in 1987 in the park of Sayn Castle hold tropical butterflies among orchids, palms and banana plants.
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Elsewhere (10)

Karlsaue Orangery, Kassel
1701–1739

Karlsaue Orangery

🇩🇪 Kassel
A princely orangery that served as both a summer residence and a citrus house.
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Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main
1869–1871

Palmengarten

🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main
Born when Frankfurt citizens bought the Duke of Nassau's winter-garden collection.
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Großes Tropenhaus, Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden
1905–1907

Großes Tropenhaus

🇩🇪 Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden
A permanent equatorial microclimate since 1907.
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Display Glasshouses of the Botanischer Volkspark Blankenfelde-Pankow (Palm Tower and Cactus Tower), Berlin (Blankenfelde, Pankow district)
1928–1929

Display Glasshouses of the Botanischer Volkspark Blankenfelde-Pankow (Palm Tower and Cactus Tower)

🇩🇪 Berlin (Blankenfelde, Pankow district)
Two glass towers of 1928-1929 built for a Berlin school garden, where the 'Königin der Nacht' cactus bloomed for one night a year.
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Alfred-Brehm-Haus (Tierpark Berlin), Berlin (Friedrichsfelde)
1956–1963

Alfred-Brehm-Haus (Tierpark Berlin)

🇩🇪 Berlin (Friedrichsfelde)
Opened in 1963 as the world's largest big cat house, it is built around a tropical hall rising to 16 metres.
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Tropical Glasshouses of Planten un Blomen (Tropengewächshäuser), Hamburg
1963

Tropical Glasshouses of Planten un Blomen (Tropengewächshäuser)

🇩🇪 Hamburg
A 1963 group of five glasshouses whose glazing hangs from external profiles, leaving the interior free of supports.
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Wilhelma Amazon House, Stuttgart
1999

Wilhelma Amazon House

🇩🇪 Stuttgart
A forest path runs through a recreated Amazon rainforest where some twenty bird species fly free.
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botanika (Rhododendron Park glasshouses, Bremen), Bremen
2003

botanika (Rhododendron Park glasshouses, Bremen)

🇩🇪 Bremen
Asian landscapes under glass, from the Himalaya to Borneo and Japan, sheltering the world's largest collection of rhododendrons.
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2004

Orang-Utan-Haus (Orangutan Dome), Hagenbeck Zoo

🇩🇪 Hamburg, Stellingen
A 32 m dome of ETFE cushions, half of which opens in seven minutes, roofs a planted Sumatran rainforest for orangutans.
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Tropical Hall of the Balinese Garden, Gärten der Welt, Berlin-Marzahn, Berlin
2017 · 2003

Tropical Hall of the Balinese Garden, Gärten der Welt

🇩🇪 Berlin-Marzahn, Berlin
A 2017 glass hall raised over the old greenhouse so that the jungle and the Balinese temple never had to move.
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Architecture in Germany

Weissenhof Estate houses, Stuttgart, Weissenhofsiedlung
1927

Weissenhof Estate houses

🇩🇪 Stuttgart, Weissenhofsiedlung
A 1927 double house whose living room becomes two bedrooms at night, with beds pulled out of the cupboards, and a roof garden with a view over Stuttgart.
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Chapel of the Madonna in the Ruins (St. Kolumba), Cologne (Altstadt-Nord)
1949–1950

Chapel of the Madonna in the Ruins (St. Kolumba)

🇩🇪 Cologne (Altstadt-Nord)
Gottfried Böhm's first independent building: a chapel raised in the ruins of St. Kolumba church, now wrapped by Peter Zumthor's museum.
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St. Albert Church, Saarbrücken (Rodenhof)
1952–1954

St. Albert Church

🇩🇪 Saarbrücken (Rodenhof)
An oval church with a light-painted concrete frame and red brick, where a glazed drum lights the altar and the crypt reuses bricks from the church destroyed in 1944.
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Böhm Chapel (former St. Ursula church), Hürth-Kalscheuren, Kalscheuren, Hürth
1954–1956

Böhm Chapel (former St. Ursula church), Hürth-Kalscheuren

🇩🇪 Kalscheuren, Hürth
A former round church, under a dome clad inside in cedar shingles and carried on slender concrete columns, now a contemporary art space.
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Unité d'Habitation of Berlin (Corbusierhaus), Berlin, Westend
1956–1958

Unité d'Habitation of Berlin (Corbusierhaus)

🇩🇪 Berlin, Westend
A Le Corbusier unité d'habitation on a hill near the Olympic stadium, with coloured loggias, from which the architect distanced himself.
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Herz Jesu Church, Schildgen, Bergisch Gladbach (Schildgen)
1959–1960

Herz Jesu Church, Schildgen

🇩🇪 Bergisch Gladbach (Schildgen)
Behind a five-metre concrete wall that shuts out the noise of the road, a courtyard, a bright atrium and a dark nave lead to the altar, lit from the top of its canopy.
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Godesburg: hotel and restaurant, Bad Godesberg, Bonn
1960

Godesburg: hotel and restaurant

🇩🇪 Bad Godesberg, Bonn
Additions in exposed concrete and glass shape the core of a ruined castle built on an extinct volcano.
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St. Gertrud Church, Cologne (Neustadt-Nord)
1962–1965

St. Gertrud Church

🇩🇪 Cologne (Neustadt-Nord)
A washed-concrete church slipped into a 62 m gap between apartment blocks and the railway, under folded slate-covered roofs.
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Christi Auferstehung Church, Cologne-Lindenthal, Lindenthal, Cologne
1964–1970

Christi Auferstehung Church, Cologne-Lindenthal

🇩🇪 Lindenthal, Cologne
A brick and exposed-concrete church at the end of the Lindenthal canal, conceived as a sculpture you can walk into and dimly lit by mostly red windows.
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St. Hubertus Church, Aachen (Hanbruch)
1964

St. Hubertus Church

🇩🇪 Aachen (Hanbruch)
A sculptural church with folded roof planes, raised on a fair-faced concrete base, which local people call the "Backenzahn", the molar.
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Bensberg Town Hall (Rathaus Bensberg), Bergisch Gladbach (Bensberg)
1965–1971

Bensberg Town Hall (Rathaus Bensberg)

🇩🇪 Bergisch Gladbach (Bensberg)
A town hall of exposed concrete and glass, built on the ruins of a medieval castle whose surviving walls and towers it takes in.
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Mariendom, Neviges (Pilgrimage Church of Mary, Queen of Peace), Neviges (Velbert), North Rhine-Westphalia
1966–1968

Mariendom, Neviges (Pilgrimage Church of Mary, Queen of Peace)

🇩🇪 Neviges (Velbert), North Rhine-Westphalia
A reinforced-concrete church under a self-supporting folded roof, whose angular walls and roofs of varying heights give it the look of a rock.
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Archdiocesan Museum and Cathedral Treasury (Diözesanmuseum), Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia
1968–1975

Archdiocesan Museum and Cathedral Treasury (Diözesanmuseum)

🇩🇪 Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia
A lead-clad chest whose levels hang from four supports, above the vaults of Bishop Meinwerk's medieval palace.
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St. Mariä Heimsuchung Church, Alfter-Impekoven, Impekoven, Alfter
1968–1969

St. Mariä Heimsuchung Church, Alfter-Impekoven

🇩🇪 Impekoven, Alfter
A concrete church that Gottfried Böhm designed as a "crystal-clear monolith", a single block comparable to a rock crystal.
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Bergischer Löwe civic centre and theatre (Bürgerhaus), Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
1977–1980

Bergischer Löwe civic centre and theatre (Bürgerhaus)

🇩🇪 Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
Behind a red-lacquered sheet-metal façade broken up by oriels and canopies, Böhm brought together a large theatre hall and a surviving part of a German Renaissance-style building.
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Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne (Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst), Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
1977

Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne (Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst)

🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Concrete cubes clad in ceramic tiles, grouped around an inner Japanese garden beside the Aachener Weiher.
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Vitra Conference Pavilion, Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg
1993

Vitra Conference Pavilion

🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg
Tadao Ando's first building outside Japan: a partly buried concrete pavilion set into a cherry-tree meadow.
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Ludwig-Erhard-Haus, Berlin (Charlottenburg)
1998

Ludwig-Erhard-Haus

🇩🇪 Berlin (Charlottenburg)
The nine upper storeys hang from fifteen steel arches of differing spans, above a ground floor with no columns.
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Ulm Municipal Library (glass pyramid), Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
1998–2004

Ulm Municipal Library (glass pyramid)

🇩🇪 Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
A glass pyramid set beside Ulm's town hall crowns cantilevered upper floors: the city's central library.
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Exhibition Hall of the German Historical Museum (Pei Building), Berlin (Mitte)
2003

Exhibition Hall of the German Historical Museum (Pei Building)

🇩🇪 Berlin (Mitte)
A triangular building of light stone, opened by a glass hall from which a glazed spiral staircase projects outwards.
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Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam, Brandenburg
2003–2006

Hans Otto Theater

🇩🇪 Potsdam, Brandenburg
Three red cantilevered shells over the auditorium and glazed foyer of Potsdam's theatre, on the shore of the Tiefer See.
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Langen Foundation, Neuss (Raketenstation Hombroich)
2004

Langen Foundation

🇩🇪 Neuss (Raketenstation Hombroich)
A long concrete slab veiled in glass, set within the ramparts of a former NATO missile base and fronted by a large reflecting pool.
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Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf (Mechernich), North Rhine-Westphalia
2005–2007

Bruder Klaus Field Chapel

🇩🇪 Wachendorf (Mechernich), North Rhine-Westphalia
A 12-metre tower of rammed concrete in the fields of the Eifel, its interior bearing the blackened imprints of 112 burned tree trunks.
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Kolumba, art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne
2007

Kolumba, art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne

🇩🇪 Cologne
A light-grey brick museum built on the plan and walls of a destroyed Gothic church, above an excavation site.
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Stone Sculpture Museum, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg (Bad Kreuznach), Rhineland-Palatinate
2010

Stone Sculpture Museum

🇩🇪 Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg (Bad Kreuznach), Rhineland-Palatinate
An 18th-century half-timbered barn surrounded by bare concrete walls, at the foot of the Rotenfels cliff in the wine-growing landscape of the Nahe valley.
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