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The Future of
Urban Regeneration
A historic industrial site. A new chapter for Magdeburg.
RAWSBURG transforms 26 hectares of former railway works into a connected mixed-use urban destination, bringing heritage, architecture, landscape, community and opportunity together.
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Made for Magdeburg.Where Heritage Becomes theFoundation for What Comes Next.
RAWSBURG grows from the identity of Magdeburg itself. Existing structures find new purpose, new layers of urban life emerge around them, and a historic piece of the city becomes active once again, evolving without losing what made it distinctive in the first place.
130 Years of Change
The former Royal Prussian Railway Repair Works is being transformed into an open, mixed-use urban quarter.
Where the Past
Meets What’s Next.
From the Royal Prussian Railway Works of 1895 to a new urban quarter for Magdeburg, RAWSBURG carries more than a century of history into its next chapter. Move between past and future to discover how the site’s industrial heritage becomes the foundation for what comes next.
Before
AfterThe Living Heritage
From Industrial Ground
to A Living Heritage
RAWSBURG begins with what was already here. For more than a century, these halls, workshops and railway structures shaped the identity of this place. Today, they become the anchors of a new quarter, preserved not as monuments to a finished past, but as places with a future. Their purpose evolves while the architecture remains.
Together, they carry the memory of the former Royal Prussian Railway Works into a new chapter of Magdeburg; one built around culture, community, movement and everyday life.
Große Wagenhalle · The social heart of RAWSBURG
Once a source of energy.
Now a Place of Gathering
Once defined by the scale and rhythm of railway production, the Great Carriage Hall becomes the social heart of RAWSBURG. Its monumental outer walls and significant elements of the original load-bearing structure are preserved, allowing the extraordinary proportions of the industrial hall to remain visible and tangible. Within them, a new layer of life unfolds: food and restaurants, local retail, education, sport, mobility, workspaces and serviced living. Different generations, activities and rhythms meet beneath one historic structure; transforming a place once built for machines into a place built around people.
Food & Restaurants · Retail · Education · Sport · Mobility · Workspaces · Serviced Living
Kesselhaus · Culture within an industrial landmark
Once a source of energy.
Now a Source of Culture
The Boiler House carries one of the site’s most distinctive industrial identities. Rather than becoming a static monument, the historic structure is given a new cultural life; bringing together art, exhibitions, gastronomy and events within its preserved industrial character. A building once essential to the operation of the railway works becomes a place for people to meet, experience and exchange ideas.
Museum · Gallery · Food & Restaurants · Events
Großteilehalle · A new space for a new generation
Built at an industrial scale
Reclaimed for Everyday Life
The generous proportions of the Large Components Hall create the setting for a new kind of community space. Sport, movement and recreation bring energy back into the former industrial structure, while spaces for children, young people and families establish a strong everyday role within the quarter. With a day-care centre integrated into the southern part of the hall, the building becomes more than a preserved piece of heritage: it becomes part of growing up at RAWSBURG.
Sports · Youth & Community · Day-Care
Schmiede
From workshop to
A Mobility Hub
Once part of the working machinery of the railway complex, the historic Forge takes on a new role at the centre of daily movement. Carefully restored beside the quarter square, it becomes RAWSBURG’s mobility hub, connecting the site’s industrial past with the way the quarter moves today.
Mobility Hub
Verwaltungsbauten
Historic structure,
Contemporary Work
The former administration buildings along Alt Salbke retain their historic presence while opening themselves to a new generation of use. Restored in accordance with their heritage character, they become home to contemporary offices and showroom spaces, bringing working life back into buildings that have long been part of the site’s identity.
Showroom · Offices
Stellwerk
A place
To Remember
Small in scale, significant in memory. The historic Signal Box remains as a quiet witness to RAWSBURG’s railway past. Preserved within the park along the southern edge of the quarter, it becomes a place of remembrance, a physical trace of the infrastructure that once defined this landscape.
Place of Remembrance
Salbker Wasserturm
A landmark
Beyond the Site
Rising just east of RAWSBURG, the historic Salbke Water Tower has long been part of the area’s silhouette. Visible from across the surrounding landscape and from Turmpark, it continues to act as an orientation point and a familiar landmark, connecting RAWSBURG to the wider identity of Salbke.
Landmark
Interactive Site Plan
The masterplan
at a glance
26 hectares, 19 development plots and around 70 buildings – discover the structure of the new urban quarter. Explore the interactive site plan for detailed insights into the future uses and buildings.
Select a building to see more information about its planned use.
Overview
Select a building on the site plan
The listed heritage buildings are the heart of the quarter — choose a development plot directly on the plan or a monument from the list.
- Listed heritage buildings
- Development plots
Location
& Accessibility
Schematic representation
Distances
Destinations in Magdeburg
- Magdeburg-Salbke S-Bahn station0.7 km · 10 min on foot
- Lake Salbke3 km · 6 min
- Magdeburg University Hospital6 km · 11 min
- Old town & Magdeburg Cathedral6.5 km · 12 min
- Magdeburg Central Station8.5 km · 13 min
- Otto von Guericke University9 km · 15 min
- Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences10.5 km · 17 min
- Elbauenpark & Millennium Tower11 km · 18 min
Driving times from the site, with clear roads.
Location advantages
Public transit right at the site
Tram and bus stop directly at the quarter — the city centre and the main station are just a few minutes away.
Directly on the river Elbe
Central position between Berlin, Hanover and Leipzig
Excellent access via the A2 and A14 motorways
Major logistics and business location in central Germany
State capital with a university, colleges and a growing research landscape
Where industry once shaped the cityscape, a quarter with a new identity is emerging. The location combines urban infrastructure, short distances and the distinctive atmosphere of the river Elbe – a site with a long-term perspective for living, working and coming together.
Sustainability & Regeneration
Regeneration Starts With What is Already Here
RAWSBURG transforms a former railway works into a new piece of Magdeburg without erasing the layers that came before it. The approach begins with the existing site: retaining significant industrial structures, reactivating previously developed land and integrating heritage into a new mixed-use urban fabric.
From there, a new environmental layer is introduced through planted roofs, renewable energy generation, landscape, water, biodiversity and active mobility. Rather than treating sustainability as a collection of isolated technologies, RAWSBURG brings these systems together at the scale of an entire quarter. The ambition is not simply to reduce the impact of development, but to return environmental, social and urban value to a site that has remained disconnected from the city for decades.
From Industrial Site toLiving System
Existing land, reactivated. Heritage, retained and reused. Roofs, made productive.
Nature and water, brought back into the urban fabric. Movement, redesigned around people.
A mixed-use quarter, built to evolve.
RAWSBURG is not about replacing one version of the site with another.
It is about building the next layer from the value already here.
Reuse TheLand
Brownfield before greenfield.
RAWSBURG brings a former industrial railway site back into active urban use rather than extending development onto previously undeveloped land.
The transformation reclaims 26 hectares of existing urban land and reconnects it with the surrounding fabric of Magdeburg.
Formerly inaccessible industrial ground becomes a permeable quarter of streets, public spaces, landscape, homes, workplaces and community uses.
Regeneration begins at the scale of the land itself: using an existing urban resource more intelligently before consuming another one.
Retain What AlreadyHolds Value
The lowest-impact structure is often the one already standing.
RAWSBURG does not begin with a blank site.
The historic railway halls, workshops, administrative buildings and other defining structures form the spatial and cultural backbone of the new quarter. Significant buildings are retained and adapted for contemporary uses, allowing the industrial fabric to remain part of everyday life rather than becoming a disconnected monument to the past.
Adaptive reuse extends the useful life of existing structures, reduces the need for wholesale replacement and preserves part of the material and embodied value already invested in the site.
Heritage therefore becomes more than something to conserve.
It becomes an active resource for regeneration.
Turn Roofs IntoInfrastructure
A fifth façade that works for the quarter.
Across RAWSBURG, roofs are conceived as productive environmental surfaces rather than unused space.
Extensive planted roofs introduce additional vegetation into the built fabric, contribute to rainwater retention, support habitat creation and help moderate heat at building level.
Photovoltaic arrays are integrated across substantial areas of the new development, allowing the roofscape to contribute to on-site renewable energy generation.
In several buildings, vegetation and photovoltaic infrastructure occupy the same roofscape, turning one of the largest surfaces of the development into an active part of its environmental performance.
Green where possible. Productive where needed. Often both.
Bring Water and NatureBack Into the Site
From hard industrial ground to a living landscape.
A site historically shaped by rail infrastructure and industrial surfaces is reimagined through a substantially greener ground plane.
New parks, planted streets, courtyards, green roofs and landscaped public spaces create a connected network of vegetation throughout the quarter.
Water is integrated visibly into the landscape through ponds, channels and water elements, establishing a blue-green layer alongside the built environment.
Together, these interventions increase planted and permeable surfaces, create new habitat opportunities and contribute to a more climate-resilient urban environment.
Instead of treating landscape as decoration around buildings, RAWSBURG uses landscape as infrastructure; shaping microclimate, ecology, water and the everyday experience of the quarter.
Design MovementAround People
A connected quarter begins at human speed.
Regeneration also means changing how people move through the site.
RAWSBURG introduces a network of pedestrian routes and dedicated cycling infrastructure through streets, public spaces and landscaped areas, creating alternatives to car-dependent movement within the quarter.
Cycling routes are integrated directly into the street design rather than added as an afterthought, while active ground floors, planting and public spaces create a more walkable urban environment.
The result is a quarter designed not only around destinations, but around the experience of moving between them.
Walk. Cycle. Connect. Stay.
Build a QuarterThat Can Evolve
Mixed use as a form of long-term resilience.
RAWSBURG combines living, working, education, culture, retail, hospitality, sport, mobility and public space within one urban system.
Historic halls are given new programmes while new buildings introduce complementary uses around them. Active ground floors bring everyday services and activity into the streets, while public spaces connect different parts of the quarter socially as well as physically.
This diversity matters environmentally, socially and economically.
A neighbourhood that supports multiple uses throughout the day can shorten everyday journeys, support local activity and remain adaptable as the needs of the city change.
Regeneration, in this sense, is not a finished condition.
It is the capacity of a place to continue creating value over time.
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A new urban quarter shaped by heritage and regeneration.