In the Schweinau district, the construction of the new children's and youth center at Nopitschstraße 23 has created an important building block for the social infrastructure. The building combines a neighborhood-oriented children's and youth center with a central base for the “Mobbl” and “Ratz” play mobiles. WBG KOMMUNAL GmbH implemented the project on behalf of the city of Nuremberg. The completion ceremony with Mayor Marcus König, the Commissioner for Youth, Family and Social Affairs, Elisabeth Ries, Planning and Construction Commissioner Daniel F. Ulrich, and Ralf Schekira, Managing Director of WBG KOMMUNAL GmbH, took place today, Thursday, March 5, 2026.
“Children and young people need places where they feel welcome, can try things out, and receive support,” emphasizes Mayor Marcus König. “With the new children's and youth center in Schweinau, we are creating just such a space, firmly anchored in the neighborhood and at the same time open to a wide range of activities throughout the city.” The four-story new building with a gross floor area of around 1,574 square meters offers the right spatial conditions for this. Around 45 percent of the space is allocated to the children's and youth center. The remaining space will be used as storage, administration, and preparation rooms for the two playmobiles that regularly travel around the city's neighborhoods.
Elisabeth Ries, spokesperson for youth, family, and social affairs, emphasizes the importance of the project for child and youth work: "With the combination of stationary offerings and mobile play and leisure activities, we are reaching young people where they live. The new building will strengthen open child and youth work in the long term and create reliable structures for educational work. It is another important milestone for our youth policy goal of gradually creating needs-based open child and youth work services in all parts of the city. It is time that we finally have a fully equipped children's and youth center in Schweinau so that we can provide young people with the support they need. I am delighted that we will be able to fill the center with life together with the young people themselves and the professionals – in other words, with the actual users of this construction project."
The building is deliberately designed as an elongated structure along Nopitschstraße. It acts as noise protection for the north-facing outdoor facilities and creates sheltered areas for play, socializing, and recreation. Due to the unfavorable soil conditions and in order to preserve the tree population, a basement was not built. The new building has been constructed using solid construction methods with a flat roof and photovoltaic system. “The conditions at this location were challenging. This project demonstrates all the more how clever planning, robust architecture, and good cooperation can create a functional and, at the same time, urbanistically compatible place for children and young people,” explains Daniel F. Ulrich, building and planning officer.
Following completion of the building construction work and the outdoor facilities, the total costs now amount to around €8.9 million. The project is being supported with around €2.6 million from the federal-state urban development program “Social Cohesion – Shaping Neighborhood Life Together.” It is also being funded by the federal government's program for efficient buildings, in this case through a low-interest loan from the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) amounting to around €4.4 million.
