The Working Group of Historic Cities is an association of the cities of Bamberg, Görlitz, Lübeck, Meißen, Regensburg and Stralsund. Its Building Award has been awarded every four years since 1998. It honours examples of high-quality development and the strengthening of historic city centres and is intended to provide inspiration and motivation for building in the old town. 

The Jewish Community Centre was built in the old town of Regensburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on the site of the synagogue destroyed in 1938. The staggered new building, constructed in a contemporary architectural language, ties in with the low eaves and gable houses of the old town and creates a close connection to the street space with courtyards and views.

Every year, the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Crafts presents an award for the successful cooperation between architects and building craft enterprises.
The design and construction of the multi-curved cross laminated timber dome over the synagogue hall in Regensburg was developed by Dr. Gollwitzer - Dr . Linse und Partner, Consulting Engineers in Civil Engineering, Munich, and Züblin Timber, Aichach, and built by IHR Tischler, Harth-Pöllnitz.

To promote regional building culture, the city of Regensburg regularly rewards outstanding architecture and landscape design. The Jewish community centre with synagogue in the UNESCO world heritage site Old Town of Regensburg received the 2019 Architecture Prize in the newly created category of cultural buildings.

Every two years, the association Forum Stadt – Network of Historic Cities honours outstanding projects that preserve, renovate, convert or further develop the historic city substance. 
The reconstruction of the synagogue in the old town of Regensburg on the site of its destruction in 1938 was honoured with one of the prizes.

DBZ Deutsche BauZeitschrift 10/2019
Issue Topic Structure
Review by Susanne Kreykenbohm
Images by Marcus Ebener

db deutsche bauzeitung 7-8/2019
Issue Topic Open. Closed
Review by Ira Mazzoni
Images by Marcus Ebener

Outstanding concepts and projects that stand for a forward-looking and innovative approach to the architectural heritage, as well as their civic engagement, are honored in the national competition Bundeswettbewerb “Europäische Stadt – Wandel & Werte” (European city – change & values). Even before completion, the Jewish Community Center with Synagogue submitted by the city of Regensburg  was awarded a prize in the category Stadtgebäude (urban building).