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Thuringian Action Alliance "City Centers with a Future"

Lively, colorful and diverse – that is how our Thuringian city centers should be. A place where trade, gastronomy and commerce flourish, a place where public and cultural life pulsates, a place where residents and guests like to meet and communicate with each other. That is the guiding principle for our city centers.

The structural change in retail, the demographic changes in our society, the noticeable climate change and the consequences of the Corona pandemic are currently presenting our city centers with major challenges. The long-term strengthening, securing functional diversity and strategic future orientation of Thuringia's city centers, involving all stakeholders relevant to the city center, is today more than ever a central task of sustainable urban development policy.

The broad Thuringian action alliance „Innenstädte mit Zukunft“ is exactly committed to this. How? – We show it here.

Vibrant city centres – together it succeeds.

A key foundation for strengthening Thuringia's city centers is the intensive and targeted cooperation between state politics, municipalities and their residents, as well as all stakeholders relevant to city centers. The Thuringian Action Alliance serves as the communication, exchange, and working platform for this. The Office of the Action Alliance, based at LEG Thüringen, pools existing resources and competencies together with the alliance partners and structures the development process with the aim of preparing effective measures to strengthen our city centers and putting them into practical implementation.

The Thuringian Action Alliance

On June 8, 2021, the Thuringian Action Alliance – “City Centers with a Future” was founded and a joint Alliance Agreement signed. The following actors have since been working in partnership in the nationwide alliance for a long-term positive development of the city centers:

    Pilot projects

    In the working groups Housing and Living, Climate and Vacancy, ideas for useful projects are developed within the framework of the alliance work and accompanied until implementation. The work paves the way for implementation in other locations in Thuringia and sometimes perhaps beyond.

    Think digital.

    Digitalization projects for Thuringian city centers

    Edible City Mühlhausen

    The whole city a garden - A local initiative for sustainable urban development

    Vacancy Compass

    A project of the Vacancy Working Group - practical examples and guidelines for vacancy management (Note: External page)

    Successful projects

    Wandering Tree Avenues Thuringia

    Climate working group ensures more green spaces in Thuringia's city centers.

    Downtown Snaps

    A temporary photo competition featuring Thuringian favorite places in small and medium-sized towns

    Working groups

    Within the framework of the Thuringian Action Alliance, three working groups are active. The central tasks of the working groups are interdisciplinary communication, topic-related professional and content exchange, and the conception of measures and projects to strengthen Thuringia's city centers.

    Living and life in the city

    The sustainable strengthening of the functionality of Thuringia's city centers is a central goal of the working group's efforts within the action alliance. The working group is working on the development of pilot projects and measures with a model character that are intended to be applicable in Thuringia's large, medium, and small towns.

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    Climate

    The main goals of the working group are to ensure comprehensive knowledge transfer and to develop pilot projects for climate adaptation and climate protection measures. Accordingly, the quality of life and stay in the city is a particular focus.

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    Vacancy management

    The working group pursues the goal of developing solution approaches for various vacancy typologies in constructive discourse. No fear of change – but commitment to innovation.

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    Insights into the Alliance

    News and insights as well as statements from stakeholders, citizens, and initiators are bundled in this area.

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    News

    Dates

    2nd Alliance Meeting 2026

    Downloads

    In our download area for the Thuringian Action Alliance you will find further interesting reports, documentation and other publications, including the alliance agreement of this alliance.

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    Office

    Andreas Jaeger

    Andreas Jaeger Project coordination

    Tel.: +49 361 5603 276

      Philipp Einicke

      Philipp Einicke Project coordination

      Tel.: +49 361 5603 522

        Denis Peisker

        Denis Peisker Project coordination

        Tel.: +49 361 5603-239

          In January 2023, the office of the Thuringian Action Alliance was founded. The tasks of the office, located at LEG Thüringen, Erfurt, include the following:

          • Coordinating support for the network and working group activities of the action alliance
          • Personnel support for the action alliance in its organizational activities and coordination of its tasks
          • Reinforcement and support of public relations work
          • Increasing the visibility of the alliance's work in politics and the public

          Contact

          Office of the Thuringian Action Alliance
          c/o LEG Thüringen
          Dept. of Urban and Regional Development

          Secretariat, Gabriele Lucke
          Phone: +49 361 5603 240
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          Mainzerhofstr. 12
          99084 Erfurt

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