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During renovation of the Platte hunting lodge, modern building elements were also employed / A panel heating system from Schütz Energy Systems will ensure suitable temperatures and appropriate room conditions for all future occasions
Wiesbaden/Selters (hds).- Not just lovers of architecture and historians go into raptures when they talk about the Platte hunting lodge high above the roofs of Wiesbaden. Many a wedding was also celebrated in the centuries-old walls - the panoramic view over the Capital of Hesse came free along with the 'I do'!
From a ruin to a modern event location
Erected by Duke Wilhelm the First of Nassau in 1823, an air raid destroyed the classic edifice in 1945, except for its outer walls. At the end of the 80s, a trust made a start on its reconstruction. Since 2003, a modern glass roof bestows upon the ruin a practically avant-garde ambience. For the building's preservation, around 5.5 million Euro were invested in the building's reconstruction and extension since 1988. "Since then, located between two brick rounded arches on two levels, there is a big and open function room on each, which was used later on by the Wiesbaden Spa Office and hired out to company and private customers for events", Architect Harald Franz from Architektenbüro Hans-Peter Gresser explained.
Panel heating covers heating requirement in a historic ambience too
Since the hunting lodge as a historic building is not subject to the Energy Savings Regulation (EnEV), thermal insulation on the 800 square metres area was dismissed, since it would destroy the visual effect. In order not to ruin the ancient inner façades completely and utterly, yet still to cover the heating requirement, all that was left in November 2006 - the last building phase - was the laying of surface heating. That cam plates would be employed for this was on the one hand a result of flexible adaptation to the unusual room geometries within the historical walls and on the other hand was determined by the low panel thickness of only 11 centimetres. The employment of this substrate also saved some anhydrite screed due to its coating thickness. Over and above this, the cam plates proved to be a more robust coating during the construction phase, since during intensive building activities, on many days several dozen workers would walk across it at the same time.
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