Winner of the Moritz Ziller Prize for Urban Design 2023 urban planning ideas competition chosen

On Saturday, 28 October 2023, four students from the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University received the Moritz Ziller Prize for Urban Design, endowed with a total of €2,500.

The urban design ideas competition was held for the 5th time, this time with a very complex theme: "TOUR DE MEISSNER. Meißner Strasse in Radebeul between thoroughfare and living environment". The competition participants were asked to create visions for the future of Radebeul's main axis and to take it seriously not just as a thoroughfare, but as an urban space.

The working group comprising Maximilian Keicher, Leon Jaskulski, Jonas Koban and Franz Kurz impressed the jury, which had 18 entries to judge, with their work "Meißner Straße verbindet" (Meißner Street connects). The students, who had also explored Meißner Straße on foot with other competition participants, identified seven key areas:

- Landesbühnen Sachsen

- Gardening in community-Zitzschewig

- View of Wackerbarth Castle

- Off to the Elbe-Bahnhofstraße

- Urban Mile - Karl May Museum/ Kirchplatz

- Creating space-Hauptstraße/Zinzendorfstraße

- Business, but the right way? - Radebeul-Ost business park

They focussed in particular on the guiding principle: "Mobility connects; open space connects; cityscape connects; trade connects".

The jury emphasised: "The premises from the concept plan are plausible and comprehensible in the in-depth area and are clearly implemented graphically. The overall concept is convincing, is appropriate to the location and the theme and is a comprehensible approach both in terms of traffic development and networking as well as urban quality."

Lasse Hamann, an architecture student at TU Dresden, and Jonathan Hertling and Jule Kuhl, who are studying architecture at TU Berlin, received two awards of €500.00 each.

The exhibition, in which all submitted works can be seen, can be visited until the beginning of 2024 on the first floor of the Technical Town Hall, Pestalozzistraße 8 during normal opening hours (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9.00 am - 12.00 pm and Tue and Thu 1.00 pm - 6.00 pm).

Every three years, the large district town of Radebeul awards the Moritz Ziller Prize as part of an ideas competition to give students and graduates of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning the incentive and opportunity to contribute to solving problems in these disciplines and to disseminate progressive ideas in these fields and develop good ideas for the future with an "outside perspective".

The prize is named in memory of the Ziller family of master builders, who had a significant influence on urban planning and garden culture in the area that is now Radebeul in the 19th century. Moritz Ziller was also co-founder and, from 1880 to 1892, chairman of the Lößnitz Beautification Association. He rendered great services to the development of the Lößnitz communities both as a successful entrepreneur and in an honorary capacity.