Umweltbundesamt
Click to enlargeOur headquarters are located in Dessau-Roßlau in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where we have been since 2005. Our other offices are in Berlin, Bad Elster (Saxony), Langen (Hesse), Merseburg (Saxony-Anhalt), Salzgitter (Lower Saxony) and Cottbus (Brandenburg). We also operate a seven station measurement network extending from Zingst on Rügen island to Zugspitze.
Wörlitzer Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103-0, Fax: ++49 340 2104-2285
Postal address: Postfach 1406, 06813 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
We have been headquartered in Dessau-Roßlau in the regional state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2005. All of our divisions are based here. For information on the locations of our various division offices, see our organizational chart.
Our building, which was designed by sauerbruch & hutton architekten, was awarded the 2009 German gold medal for sustainable construction. Distinctions of this nature from the Federal Ministry of Construction and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen are awarded for exemplary new office buildings, based on ecological, economic, and sociocultural criteria, as well as location, planning and technical realization.
The building’s energy concept is based on the use of renewable energy, to which end solar panels were built into the folding roof of the entry area (Forum), and solar collectors were installed on the Forum’s flat roof. Both of these amenities are used for solar powered air conditioning in the building, mainly the auditorium and IT areas. Thanks to our geothermal heat exchangers – currently the world’s largest facility of this type with more than five kilometers of piping – exhaust air is conditioned underground and is used for heating or air conditioning depending on the time of year.
You are more than welcome to come see our unique building for yourself, visit our Fachbibliothek Umwelt (environmental library), which houses a large collection of environmental books, and pick up free brochures on environmental matters at our visitors center. You can also take a virtual 360° tour of the building.
In September 2023, a new extension with at least zero energy standard was opened next to the main building. On our construction project page (in German) you will find information, photos and videos about the project.
Part of the UBA in Dessau-Roßlau is also the listed building "Wörlitzer Bahnhof". It is the seat of the German Centre for Micropollutants (SZB), which was established in 2021 at the German Environment Agency.
Bismarckplatz 1, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 8903-5613
The UBA office building Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz) will remain closed until about 2025/26 due to renovation and modernization work. The address of the temporary accommodations is:
City Campus, Umweltbundesamt (Haus 3, Eingang 3A)
Buchholzweg 8, 13627 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: 030 8903-5613
DirectionsBerlin-Colditzstraße
Colditzstraße 34, 12099 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0
Our building on Berlin’s Bismarckplatz was our HQ from 1974 (the year of our founding) until we relocated to our present building in 2005. This building is currently home to German Emissions Trading Authority (part of UBA Division V) and some staff members of our General Services Division, the director’s office, and our PR office.
The Bismarckplatz office also has a visitors center where brochures are available free of charge. Exhibitions on environmental subjects are held here on a regular basis as well.
The Bismarckplatz building, which dates back to the 1930s, is slated for renovation and energy modernization.
From 2020 to around 2026, the building, which dates back to the 1930s, is being renovated for energy efficiency. During this time, most of the office workplaces are housed in the temporary accommodation "City Campus" on Berlin's Buchholzweg. The Berlin-Colditzstraße site, which is equipped with laboratories and laboratory technology, is temporary accommodation for Department II 2.5 "Water Analysis Laboratory" until the UBA laboratory site in Berlin-Marienfelde has been expanded.
Corrensplatz 1, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 / 8903-1830
Our Berlin-Dahlem office is home to staff members from the following units:
To facilitate these activities, our Correnplatz office has labs, as well as breeding facilities for cockroaches, head lice and other pests.
The building used to be the headquarters of Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene (WaBoLu) (Water, soil and air hygiene institute), which was absorbed by the UBA in 1994.
In the long term, the aforesaid units and staffers will move to the UBA site Berlin-Marienfelde and the Correnplatz site will be shut down.
Schichauweg 58, 12307 Berlin, Germany
Phone: ++49 30 8903-0, Fax: ++49 30 8903-4152 or -4200
Our Berlin-Marienfelde office is home to staff members from the following units:
In addition to various laboratories, our Berlin-Marienfelde office also operates our flowing, flow-through and stagnant system simulation facility (FSA) where we do research into areas such as the effect of pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides on the ecosystems of the facility’s artificial watercourses and ponds.
The federal government’s first zero energy office building, for 31 UBA staff members, was completed in 2013 at our Marienfelde site. For further information, as well as photos and videos, concerning the zero energy concept and the construction phase, see our building project page.
Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 29, 63225 Langen, Germany
Phone: ++49 6103 704-0, Fax: ++49 6103 704147
Our Langen office in the regional state of Hesse is home to staff members from the following units:
Our Langen office is the nerve center of our air monitoring network.
Once our Berlin-Grunewald building on Bismarckplatz has been renovated and modernized, the aforesaid units and staffers will move there and the Langen office will be closed.
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Heinrich-Heine-Str. 12, 08645 Bad Elster, Germany
Phone: ++49 37437 76-0, Fax: ++49 37437 76219
Our Bad Elster office in the regional state of Saxony is home to staff members from the following units:
Once our Berlin-Grunewald building on Bismarckplatz has been renovated and modernized, the aforesaid units and staffers will move there and the Bad Elster office will be closed.
Alte Messe 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
The UBA application lab for AI and Big Data is located at the Leipzig site
Gotthardstraße 34, 06217 Merseburg, Germany
Phone: ++49 340/2103- 2275
The "National Centre for Environmental and Nature Conservation Information (umwelt.info)" (Department I 1) operates at the Merseburg site in Saxony-Anhalt.
The goal of the working group is to compile all information available nationwide on environmentally relevant topics and to prepare it in a way that is suitable for the target group, so that it is available to citizens, scientists and researchers, companies and industry, as well as administrative bodies.
To achieve this goal, the working group is involved in the creation and operation of the web portal “umwelt.info”, which provides environment-related metadata, services, reports, research findings, expert opinions, educational materials and information on legal and administrative regulations, funding programmes and procedures of the environmental and nature conservation administrative bodies for use as a source of information.
Umweltbundesamt (UBA) – Baudienststelle Endlager Schacht Konrad
Außenstelle Salzgitter
Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 18, 38226 Salzgitter
Phone: ++49 340 2103 5442
The Konrad repository is used for the storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. In mid-2019, the Federal Ministry for the Environment transferred the tasks of a construction service for the Konrad repository to the German Environment Agency. The responsibility applies to the public construction tasks resulting from the Lower Saxony Building Code and the Konrad planning approval decision regarding the above-ground buildings and traffic areas of the repository. The reason for this is that the constructor and later user of the repository, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), is not allowed to take over these tasks itself as an extended building supervisory authority.
Wernerstraße 19, 03046 Cottbus
Phone: ++49 0340 2103-0
The UBA site in Cottbus is home to Section III 2.8 "Decarbonization in Industry" and staff from Sections I 2.2 and I 2.7, who work on the task of "Decarbonization in Transport".
We monitor air quality at the following measuring stations:
Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze 5, 82475 Zugspitze, Germany
Phone: ++49 8821 924110, Fax: ++49 8821 924209
Zur alten Fischerhütte 1, 16775 Stechlin - OT Neuglobsow, Germany
Phone: ++49 33082 403-190, Fax.: ++49 33082 403-195
29394 Langenbrügge, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6849
Schauinslandweg 2, 79254 Oberried/ Hofsgrund, Germany
Phone: ++49 7602 91000, Fax: ++49 7602 243
98559 Gehlberg, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6830
Lornsenweg 9, 25980 Westerland/Sylt, Germany
Phone: ++49 340 2103 6850
Landstr. 2, 18374 Zingst, Germany
Phone: ++49 0340 2103 6790
Till 2030, we want to be the first German Federal Agency which is greenhouse gas neutral. Information on the progress of our construction projects is available on our construction project page (in German), where you’ll find texts, photos and videos. You can learn more there about how in the summer of 2013 our Berlin-Marienfelde office became the federal government’s first zero energy building, and how the planning process for the new wing of our Dessau-Roßlau building integrated solar panels into the building facade.
Luft kennt keine Grenzen. Luftverunreinigungen können tausende von Kilometern zurücklegen, Grenzen überschreiten und sich weltweit in der Erdatmosphäre ausbreiten. Deshalb erfordert die die Überwachung und Langzeitbeobachtung von Luftschadstoffen und ihrer Wirkungen internationale Zusammenarbeit. Den deutschen Beitrag dazu liefert das Luftmessnetz des Umweltbundesamtes. Sieben Messstationen in sogenannten Reinluftgebieten analysieren seit fast 50 Jahren Luft, Feinstaub und Regenwasser auf ferntransportierte, menschenverursachte Luftschadstoffe und deren Wirkungen auf Ökosysteme. Anlässlich des EU-Jahres der Luft stellt das Umweltbundesamt daher sein Luftmessnetz, dessen Aufgaben und ausgewählte Ergebnisse in einem Kurzfilm und einer neuen Broschüre dar.
The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.
