{"id":7907,"date":"2026-07-09T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:31:39","slug":"informations-und-kompetenzzentrum-hanf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/informations-und-kompetenzzentrum-hanf\/","title":{"rendered":"Designed to set a new standard: a house made of hemp. Launch of the \u201cHemp Information and Competence Centre with Experience Trails\u201d in M\u00fccheln (Geiseltal)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the NEB_PROJECT \"Hemp Information and Competence Centre with Experience Trails (IKHE)\"<\/a>, a partnership comprising the town of M\u00fccheln (Geiseltal), Merseburg University of Applied Sciences and the German Hemp Academy e. V., based in M\u00fccheln, was launched on 7 July 2026. Hemp is being brought back into the public consciousness as a useful plant, including for use as a building and insulation material with improved properties in terms of moisture regulation and healthy indoor air quality. The plans include an experimental building constructed predominantly from hemp as a building material, alongside construction workshops and a range of discovery trails. On 7 July 2026, the project partners received their funding notifications, totalling around 3.8 million euros, from Gert Zender, State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. The project is 100 per cent funded by the European Just Transition Fund (JTF) as part of the state initiative \"Together for a New European Bauhaus (NEB) #NeueBauh\u00e4usler\".<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people had come to celebrate the launch of the project that day, but also \u2013 and above all \u2013 to learn about hemp as a versatile all-rounder and the plans of the project partners. And it became clear that industrial hemp, as a sustainable resource, offers more than just high economic potential. The plant also scores highly in environmental terms. This is because, when grown as part of a crop rotation, hemp improves soil quality, requires no pesticides and \u2013 particularly important in times of climate change \u2013 needs comparatively little water. Hemp is currently grown across around 230 hectares in the region \u2013 with predictable selling prices for farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018Hemp Information and Competence Centre\u2019 in M\u00fccheln, funded by the EU as a NEB_PROJECT, is to be built by the town of M\u00fccheln as an experimental hemp structure \u2013 a timber building with a high proportion of hemp. The German Hemp Academy e. V. and Merseburg University of Applied Sciences are supporting the project with their expertise and scientific guidance, not least to share knowledge with both specialists and the general public. Because that is what the centre will be all about: using a specific building and a specific product to educate people about sustainable material cycles and value chains, with a wide range of opportunities for use and practical applications for one of the oldest crops used by humankind: hemp. M\u00fccheln is making history for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOut of coal, into hemp.\u201d Under this motto, the members of the Hanffaser Geiseltal eG cooperative have been working since their foundation in 2022 to bring people together and drive change in the former lignite-mining region around Lake Geiseltal. The cooperative is an integral partner to the NEB_PROJECT in the supply of raw materials. Its headquarters, located in a former locomotive workshop in the St\u00f6bnitz district of M\u00fccheln, lies opposite the site on which the \u201cHemp Information and Competence Centre with Experience Trails\u201d is to be built as an experimental structure by 2028. It is a city-owned property in the town of M\u00fccheln, not far from Strandallee, intended to develop facilities for residents and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mit dem NEB_PROJEKT \u201eInformations- und Kompetenzzentrum Hanf mit Erlebnispfaden (IKHE)\u201c ist mit Startschuss am 7. Juli 2026 ein Partnerverbund der Stadt M\u00fccheln (Geiseltal), der Hochschule Merseburg und der Deutschen Hanf-Akademie e. V. mit Sitz in M\u00fccheln an den Start gegangen. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_mapbox_gl_js_media":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,17,52],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beitrag","tag-landkiez","tag-neb","tag-thondorf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuebauhaeusler.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}